Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō

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The Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō ( Japanese 北海道 官 設 鉄 道 , "Hokkaidō State Railway") was a Japanese state railway company . It existed from 1897 to 1905 and built several routes in the north and east of the island of Hokkaidō . The operational center of the route network was Asahikawa .

history

An indirect forerunner is the Horonai Tetsudō , founded in 1880 , which built the first lines on the island and was sold in 1889 to the private mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō . The new owner was primarily concerned with exploiting coal deposits. She was not interested in opening up the as yet hardly populated north and east of the island. On May 14, 1896, the Hokkaidō Railway Construction Act (Hokkaidō tetsudō fusetsu hō) passed by the Japanese Reichstag was therefore promulgated, which obliged the state to promote the economic development of these areas by building railway lines. For this purpose, the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō was created on November 5, 1897 as a department of the Hokkaidō authority ( 北海道 庁 , Hokkaidō-chō ). The engineer Tanabe Sakurō was in charge .

The first thing they did was put into operation on July 16, 1898, the section between the Sorachi Bridge south of Takikawa and Asahikawa. In stages, two routes were built from Asahikawa. The Teshio Line ( 天 塩 線 , Teshio-sen ), which later became the Sōya main line , extended in the same year to Ranru, in 1899 to Wassamu, 1900 to Shibetsu and 1903 to Nayoro . The Tokachi Line ( 十勝 線 , Tokachi-sen ) led south from Asahikawa to Furano in 1899 , to Shikagoe in 1900 and to Ochiai in 1901 . Since the crossing of the Hidaka Mountains would take a long time to complete, the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō built simultaneously from Kushiro in a westerly direction. The Kushiro line ( 釧 路線 , Kushiro-sen ) extended from there to Shiranuka in 1901 , to Urahoro in 1903 and to Toshibetsu in 1904.

Two years before the completion of the continuous connection Asahikawa - Kushiro (the later Furano Line and Nemuro Main Line ) on April 1, 1905, all railway lines of the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō were transferred to the newly created Railway Office of the Cabinet (later the Railway Ministry ). In the fiscal year 1904/05, a total of 611,518 people and 350,505 tons of goods were carried on their routes. Most recently it owned 31 steam locomotives , 42 passenger coaches and 627 freight wagons .

Route overview

The route network of the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō consisted of the following parts of later lines:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ National Parliamentary Library , Nihon hōrei sakuin (index of Japanese laws and ordinances): Entry 北海道 鉄 道 敷設 法 with list of changing laws and links to the legal text in online archives and stations of the adoption in the Reichstag (Japanese)
  2. ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 36-37 .
  3. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道. P. 314.
  4. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道. Pp. 312-313.
  5. ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道. P. 312.
  6. ↑ 逓 信 省 年報. 第 19. Parliament of Japan Digital Library, accessed February 10, 2017 (Japanese).