Kōhin South Line
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| Route length: | 19.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 20 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 300 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kōhin South Line ( Japanese 浜 南 線 , Kōhin-nansen ) was a railway line in the northeast of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It was in operation from 1935 to 1985.
description
The Kōhin-Südlinie was a branch line that branched off in Okoppe from the also disused Nayoro main line. It was Cape gauge , single-track and not electrified. The Kōhin south line ran in a north-westerly direction along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and led to Ōmu, 19.9 km away . Three train stations and three stops each 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 cities of Okoppe and Hamatombetsu was noted. This Kōhin Line was to connect the Nayoro Main Line with the Tenpoku Line and help create a continuous connection from Abashiri to Wakkanai along the entire coast of the Sea of Okhotsk . Agriculture and forestry should also be promoted in this sparsely populated and poorly developed area. Construction began in the spring of 1933. On September 15, 1935, the Kōhin south line from Okoppe to Ōmu was opened .
A year later, the northern Kōhin line was also opened between the Hama-Tombetsu and Kitami-Esashi stations . A significant part of the substructure already existed on the missing 51.5 km long section between Ōmu and Kitami-Esashi , but after the outbreak of the Pacific War in July 1937, the Ministry of Railways 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 South 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 December 1955; 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 March 1975 the steam operation also ended in freight traffic. The Japanese State Railways discontinued this on February 1, 1984. On July 15, 1985, the Kōhin-Südlinie was shut down and replaced by a bus line of the company Hokumon Bus .
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
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| Okoppe ( 興 部 ) | 0.0 | Nayoro Main Line (closed) | Coord. | Okoppe |
| Sawaki ( 沢 木 ) | 8.3 | Coord. | Ōmu | |
| Moto-Sawaki ( 元 沢 木 ) | 10.3 | Coord. | ||
| Sakaeoka ( 栄 丘 ) | 13.4 | Coord. | ||
| Ōmu-Kyōei ( 雄武 共 栄 ) | 16.2 | Coord. | ||
| Ōmu ( 雄武 ) | 19.9 | Coord. |
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