North Kohin Line
| North Kohin Line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 30.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 18 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 160 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kōhin Northern Line ( Japanese 興 浜 北 線 , Kōhin-hokusen ) was a railway line in the north of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was in operation from 1936 to 1985.
description
When Kohin-North line, it was a branch line that the station Hama Tombetsu from the also defunct Tenpoku line branched off. It was Cape gauge , single-track and not electrified. The Kōhin north line ran in a southeastern direction along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and led to Kitami-Esashi, 30.4 km away . Nine train stations and stops on demand were developed.
The roadbed has been preserved to a large extent, however, the bridges were removed.
history
In the appendix of the revised Railway Construction Act of 1922, the project of a railway line between the towns of Hamatombetsu and Okoppe was noted. This Kōhin Line was supposed to connect the Tenpoku Line with the Nayoro Main Line and help create a continuous connection from Wakkanai to Abashiri along the entire coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . Agriculture and forestry should also be promoted in this sparsely populated and poorly developed area. On July 10, 1936, the Kōhin northern line was opened from Hama-Tombetsu to Kitami-Esashi .
A year earlier, the Kōhin south line between the Okoppe and Ōmu stations had also been opened. A significant part of the substructure already existed on the missing 51.5 km long section between Kitami-Esashi and Ōmu , but after the outbreak of the Pacific War in July 1937, the Railway Ministry stopped all construction work. In order to support rationing measures during the war, it classified various branch lines as "non-urgent" and temporarily shut them down. On November 1, 1944, the Kōhin north line was also affected by this measure. A little more than three months after the end of the war, operations were resumed on December 5, 1945.
In passenger transport, the use of trains with steam locomotives ended in July 1956; In their place were rail buses . In 1960 the Ministry of Transport decided to build the missing section, but the volume of traffic fell significantly in the following years due to the rural exodus and mass motorization . For this reason, further construction work was not carried out and the project was finally abandoned in 1977. In May 1975 the steam operation also ended in freight traffic. The Japanese State Railways discontinued this on February 1, 1984. On July 15, 1985, the northern Kōhin line was shut down and replaced by a bus line of the company Soya Bus .
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
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| Hama-Tombetsu ( 浜 頓 別 ) | 0.0 | Tenpoku Line (closed) | Coord. | Hamatombetsu |
| Tombetsu ( 頓 別 ) | 2.7 | Coord. | ||
| Toyoushi ( 豊 牛 ) | 7.0 | Coord. | ||
| Toyohama ( 豊 浜 ) | 10.3 | Coord. | ||
| Shanai ( 斜 内 ) | 12.4 | Coord. | ||
| Menashidomari ( 目 梨 泊 ) | 17.7 | Coord. | Esashi | |
| Yamausu ( 山 臼 ) | 19.8 | Coord. | ||
| Toimaki ( 問 牧 ) | 23.1 | Coord. | ||
| Kitami-Esashi ( 北 見 枝 幸 ) | 30.4 | Coord. |
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