Iwanai line
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| Route length: | 14.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 12.5 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Iwanai Line ( Japanese 岩 内線 , Iwanai-sen ) was a railway line in the west of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It opened in 1912, led to the port city of Iwanai and was in operation until 1985.
description
The Iwanai Line was a 14.9 km long branch line that branched off the Hakodate Main Line at Kozawa Station and ran through the Horikappu Valley to Iwanai Station on the Sea of Japan . The line was cape gauge , single track and not electrified. There were four intermediate stops without any evasion.
From 1946 to 1962, the Iwanai station was also the starting point for a Cape-gauge mine railway operated by the Kayanuma Tankō mining company . It was 6.3 km long and led to the Hossoku coal mine.
history
A local company, Iwanaibashi Tetsudō , built a small train from Iwanai Port to Kozawa Station and put it into operation on March 14, 1905. It was 17.4 km long and was pulled by horses. Their gauge of 762 mm was disadvantageous because it meant that goods had to be reloaded at Kozawa station. It was shut down on May 11, 1911 after only seven years. The Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) then built a new Cape-gauge line that was around three kilometers shorter. The Iwanai Line opened on November 1, 1912.
In the 1950s, the Japanese State Railways planned to expand the Iwanai Line into an alternative route to the Hakodate Main Line . From Iwanai, the line should be continued over a distance of 43.9 km along the coast and meet at Yubetsu on the existing line of the company Suttsu Tetsudō to Kuromatsunai station . This should be able to bypass steep sections on the Hakodate main line, which would have been particularly advantageous for freight traffic. The state railway acquired land along the planned route and on December 24, 1972 the groundbreaking ceremony took place, but shortly afterwards the project was abandoned.
The steam operation on the Iwanai line ended in October 1973. On February 1, 1984, the state railway stopped freight traffic and baggage check-in, and on July 1, 1985, it closed the line. Since then, passenger traffic between Kozawa and Iwanai has been carried out by a bus line operated by Niseko Bus .
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
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| Kozawa ( 小 沢 ) | 0.0 | Hakodate main line | Coord. | Kyōwa |
| Kunitomi ( 国 富 ) | 2.5 | Coord. | ||
| Horoni ( 幌 似 ) | 6.0 | Coord. | ||
| Maeda ( 前 田 ) | 9.0 | Coord. | ||
| Nishi-Maeda ( 西 前 田 ) | 12.1 | Coord. | ||
| Iwanai ( 岩 内 ) | 14.9 | Coord. | Ivanai |
Web links
- Iwanai Line Information with Photo Galleries (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Japanese State Railways, General Directorate Hokkaidō (ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100- year history of the Hokkaidō railway) . tape 2 . Sapporo 1981.
- ↑ Yoshikazu Kusamachi (Ed.): 全国 未成 線 ガ イ ド 知 ら れ ざ る 鉄 道路 線 (Guide to Unknown Railways Across Japan) . Takarajimasha, Chiyoda 2016, ISBN 978-4-8002-4841-1 , pp. 88-89 .
- ↑ Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大 辞典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 4-533-02980-9 , pp. 245 .
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