Hachikō line

Hachikō line
Diesel multiple unit of the KiHa 110 series south of Takezawa
Route length:	92.0 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Power system :	Hachiōji - Komagawa: 1500 V  =
Maximum slope :	20  ‰
Top speed:	85 km / h
Dual track :	Kita-Fujioka - Kuragano
Society:	JR East
Legend ↑ Chūō main line 1901– 0.0 Hachiōji ( 八 王子 ) 1889– Keiō-Hachiōji ( 京 王八 王子 ) ← Yokohama Line 1908– ← Keiō line 1925– ← Chūō main line 1889– ← ( Chūō rapid transit line ) 1932– Asa-gawa 3.1 Kita-Hachiōji ( 北 八 王子 ) 1959– Chūō Highway 5.1 Komiya ( 小 宮 ) 1931– Tama-gawa ← Itsukaichi line 1930-1944 ← Ōme line 1894– Tachikawa parking facility ← Seibu Haijima Line 1968– 9.9 Haijima ( 拝 島 ) 1894– → Itsukaichi line 1925– → Ōme line 1894– 12.7 Higashi-Fussa ( 東 福 生 ) 1931– 15.7 Hakonegasaki ( 箱根 ケ 崎 ) 1931– Ken-Ō Highway 20.5 Kaneko ( 金子 ) 1931– Kasumi-gawa Iruma-gawa → Seibu Ikebukuro Line 1915– Hannō ( 飯 能 ) 25.6 Higashi-Hannō ( 東 飯 能 ) 1931– → Seibu Ikebukuro Line 1929– Koaze-kawa 31.1 Komagawa ( 高 麗川 ) 1933– ← Kawagoe line 1940– ← Taiheiyo Cement factory railway Koma-gawa 36.9 Moro ( 毛 呂 ) 1933– ← Tōbu Ogose Line 1934– 39.6 Ogose ( 越 生 ) 1933– Oppe-gawa 44.8 Myōkaku ( 明 覚 ) 1934– Toki-gawa Kabuto-gawa ← Main Tōjō line 1923– 52.8 Ogawamachi ( 小川 町 ) 1923– ← Main Tōjō line 1925– 56.3 Takezawa ( 竹 沢 ) 1934– 60.3 Orihana ( 折 原 ) 1934– Arakawa → Chichibu main line 1901– 63.9 Yorii ( 寄居 ) 1901– ← Main Tōjō line 1925– ← Chichibu main line 1903– 68.4 Yōdo ( 用 土 ) 1933– 71.1 Matsuhisa ( 松 久 ) 1933– Koyama-gawa 75.9 Kodama ( 児 玉 ) 1931– 80.0 Tanshō ( 丹 荘 ) 1931– → Jōbu Tetsudō 1942-1988 Kanna-gawa 84.7 Gunma-Fujioka ( 群 馬 藤 岡 ) 1931– Nukui-gawa ↔ Jōetsu Shinkansen 1982– Jōshin'etsu Highway ← Takasaki Line 1884– 88.4 Kita-Fujioka ( 北 藤 岡 ) 1931– 88.5 Dodge Ono -1961 Karasu-gawa ← Iwahana small train 1917– 92.0 Kuragano ( 倉 賀 野 ) 1894– ↓ Takasaki Line 1884– 96.4 Takasaki ( 高崎 )

The Hachikō Line ( Japanese 八 高 線 , Hachikō-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the JR East railway company . It begins in Hachiōji in Tokyo Prefecture , crosses the hilly western part of Saitama Prefecture and ends in Takasaki in Gunma Prefecture . The name is made up of the first Kanji characters from Hachiōji and Takasaki.

description

As is customary in Japan, the Hachikō line is laid in Kapspur (1067 mm). It is 92.0 km long and serves 23 train stations and stops, and the maximum speed is 85 km / h. Operationally, the Hachikō line is divided into two parts: The southern part between Hachiōji and Komagawa is electrified with 1500 V DC and forms a unit with the Kawagoe line . The northern part between Komagawa and Kuragano, on the other hand, is the only non-electrified railway line in Saitama Prefecture and is used by diesel railcars . Kuragano is the nominal terminus, but the trains continue to Takasaki . In the fiscal year 2018, an average of 20,978 passengers were counted on the southern part of the Hachikō line and 3,393 passengers on the northern part.

Train crossing in Komagawa: Diesel multiple unit KiHa 110 (left) and multiple unit E231-3000 (right)

The southern starting point is the Hachiōji station on the Chūō main line . The route, which initially runs eastwards, crosses the Chūō motorway and the wide Tama river valley on a 571 m long bridge , then turns north. In Haijima there are transitions to the Itsukaichi line , the Ōme line and the Haijima line . Before Hakonegasaki, the route deviates from its original route on a short section because it stood in the way of the extension of the runway at Yokota Air Base . Amidst the Kaji-downs in Iruma is set to 158  m  TP the highest point reached, followed by a steep section of up to 20 ‰ inclination. In Higashi-Hannō , the Hachikō line meets the Ikebukuro line . Immediately afterwards another steep stretch of 20 ‰ follows down to Komagawa , where the Kawagoe line branches off.

Shortly after Komagawa, a works railway branched off from the cement company Taiheiyo Cement , which was in operation from 1963 to 1984 and led to Nishi-Oya on the Ogose line . This in turn joins the Hachikō line in Ogose . Both in Ogawamachi and in Yorii there is a link with the Tōjō main line . In between, the route again leads through hilly terrain and has several tight curves. In addition, in Yorii you can switch to the Chichibu main line , which has a parallel route for around one kilometer. The Hachikō line then reaches the Kantō plain and turns to the northwest. The line is single-track until immediately after the Kita-Fujioka station, but from here, together with the Takasaki line, it forms a slightly more than three-kilometer double-track section to Kuragano.

Trains

The electrified part of the Hachikō line forms an operational unit together with the connected Kawagoe line . Almost all regional trains run from Hachiōji via Komagawa to Kawagoe without changing trains . During the day, every half hour is offered, during rush hour every 20 minutes. In the event of disruptions, the trains in Komagawa can be separated. On the non-electrified part, regional trains run from Komagawa via Kuragano to Takasaki with an approximate hourly service. There are individual gaps in the mornings and afternoons north of Ogawamachi .

From 1961 to 1965 the Japanese State Railways offered isolated express trains that ran from Shinjuku on the Hachikō Line to Minakami on the Jōetsu Line .

history

In the appendix of the revised Railway Construction Act of 1922, the Hachikō line was listed with project number 51. The Ministry of Railways built the line from both sides, with the initially unconnected sections having the temporary names Hachikō-Nordlinie ( 八 高 北 線 , Hachikō-hokusen ) and Hachikō-Südlinie ( 八 高 北 線 , Hachikō-nansen ). In the south, the sections went into operation as follows: on December 10, 1931 from Hachiōji to Higashi-Hannō (25.6 km), on April 15, 1933 from Higashi-Hannō to Ogose (14.0 km) and on March 24 1934 from Ogose to Ogawamachi (13.2 km). In the north, the Ministry opened the section between Kuragano and Kodama (16.1 km) on July 1, 1931 , then on January 25, 1933 the section between Kodama and Yorii (12.0 km). With the opening of the last remaining section between Ogawamachi and Yorii (11.1 km) on October 6, 1934, the Hachikō Line was completed.

Railway accident at Hanno

Shortly before the end of the Pacific War and during the post-war period, two of the worst rail accidents in Japanese history occurred on the Hachikō Line . In the Hachiōji railway accident on August 27, 1945, two trains collided head- on on the bridge over the Tama , killing 105 people. Another 184 deaths occurred in the Hanno railway accident on February 25, 1947 , when a train traveling at excessive speed fell down a curve from the embankment. Another accident with four fatalities occurred on July 14, 1947, when an American Douglas A-26 bomber crashed shortly after take-off at Yokota Air Base due to an engine failure and hit a train on the Tama Bridge.

As part of the privatization of the Japanese State Railways , the Hachikō Line went into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight took over the freight traffic. The new owner electrified the southern part of the line between Hachiōji and Komagawa on March 16, 1996. This resulted in an operational division in Komagawa, since the electric train runs have since been linked to the Kawagoe line . On March 31, 2005, JR Freight ceased freight traffic. Due to typhoon Hagibis , the track bed at the bridge over the Kanna in Kamikawa was washed away on October 18, 2019 . Rail traffic between Komagawa and Yorii had to be completely suspended by November 27, 2019.

photos

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  Tama Bridge

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  Higashi-Fussa train station

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  Train in Myōkaku

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  Yōdō Station

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  Gunma-Fujioka Railway Station

List of train stations

Surname	km	Connecting lines	location	place	prefecture
Hachiōji ( 八 王子 )	00.0	Chūō Main Line Chūō Rapid Train Line Yokohama Line at Keiō-Hachiōji Station : Keiō Line	Coord.	Hachiōji	Tokyo
Kita-Hachiōji ( 北 八 王子 )	03.1		Coord.
Komiya ( 小 宮 )	05.1		Coord.
Haijima ( 拝 島 )	09.9	Itsukaichi Line Ōme Line Seibu Haijima Line	Coord.	Akishima
Higashi-Fussa ( 東 福 生 )	12.7		Coord.	Fussa
Hakonegasaki ( 箱根 ケ 崎 )	15.7		Coord.	Mizuho
Kaneko ( 金子 )	20.5		Coord.	Iruma	Saitama
Higashi-Hannō ( 東 飯 能 )	25.6	Seibu Ikebukuro line	Coord.	Hanno
Komagawa ( 高 麗川 )	31.1	Kawagoe line	Coord.	Hidaka
Moro ( 毛 呂 )	36.9		Coord.	Moroyama
Ogose ( 越 生 )	39.6	Tōbu Ogose Line	Coord.	Ogose
Myōkaku ( 明 覚 )	44.8		Coord.	Tokigawa
Ogawamachi ( 小川 町 )	52.8	Tōjō main line	Coord.	Ogawa
Takezawa ( 竹 沢 )	56.3		Coord.
Orihara ( 折 原 )	60.3		Coord.	Yorii
Yorii ( 寄居 )	63.9	Tōjō main line Chichibu main line	Coord.
Yōdo ( 用 土 )	68.4		Coord.
Matsuhisa ( 松 久 )	71.1		Coord.	Misato
Kodama ( 児 玉 )	75.9		Coord.	Honjō
Tanshō ( 丹 荘 )	80.0		Coord.	Kamikawa
Gunma-Fujioka ( 群 馬 藤 岡 )	84.7		Coord.	Fujioka	Gunma
Kita-Fujioka ( 北 藤 岡 )	88.4		Coord.
Kuragano ( 倉 賀 野 )	92.0	Takasaki line	Coord.	Takasaki
continue on the Takasaki Line
Takasaki ( 高崎 )	96.4	Hokuriku Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen Jōetsu Line Jōshin Line Shin'etsu Main Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Takasaki Line	Coord.	Takasaki	Gunma

Web links

Commons : Hachikō Line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• JR East route network (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 路線 別 ご 利用 状況 (2014 ～ 2018 年度). (PDF, 202 kB) JR East , 2019, accessed November 30, 2019 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Shunzō Miyawaki, Katsumasa Harada: 全線 全 駅 鉄 道 の 旅 4 関 東 JR 私 鉄 2100 キ ロ . Shogakukan , Chiyoda 1991, pp. 107 .
3. ↑ Ryōzō Kawashima: 日本 の 鉄 道 中部 ラ イ ン 全線 ・ 全 駅 ・ 全 配線 第 １１ 巻 埼 玉 南部 ・ 東京 多 摩 北部 . Kōdansha , Bunkyō 2011, ISBN 978-4-06-270071-9 , pp. 68 .
4. ↑ JR 時刻表 2019 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2019). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2019.
5. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 374 号 ・ 第 375 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , December 4, 1931, accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 132 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , April 8, 1933, accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
7. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 83 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , March 13, 1934, accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
8. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 135 号 ・ 第 136 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , June 24, 1931; accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 15 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , January 20, 1933, accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
10. ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 473 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , October 2, 1934; accessed November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
11. ^ Masao Saito: Japanese Railway Safety and Technology of the Day. (PDF, 2.4 MB) In: Japanese Railway & Transport Review (No. 33). East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, December 2002, pp. 4–13 (8f) , accessed November 29, 2019 . 
12. ↑ 基地 と あ き し ま. (PDF, 5.0 MB) Akishima City Planning Office , March 2017, p. 37 , accessed on November 29, 2019 (Japanese). 
13. ↑ Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大事 典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-02980-6 .
14. ↑ JR7 社 14 年 の あ ゆ み . Kōtsū Shimbun, Tokyo April 2001, p. 9 .
15. ↑ JR 八 高 線 、 27 日 か ら 全線 で 運 転 再 開. Nikkei , November 25, 2019, accessed November 29, 2019 . 

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