Keiō Keibajō line

Keiō Keibajō line
Class 7000 multiple unit on the Keibajō line
Route length:	0.9 km
Gauge :	1372 mm ( Scottish gauge )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Top speed:	70 km / h
Dual track :	whole route
Society:	Keiō Dentetsu
Legend Shinjuku ( 新宿 ) 0.0 Higashi-Fuchū ( 東 府中 ) 1916– ← Keiō line 1916– 0.9 Fuchūkeiba-seimommae ( 府中 競 馬 正 門前 ) 1955–

The Keiō Keibajō Line ( Japanese 京 王 競 馬 場 線 , Keiō Keibajō-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the Keiō Dentetsu railway company . In the urban area of Fuchū in the west of Tokyo Prefecture , it connects the Keiō Line with the Tokyo Racecourse .

Route description

Aerial view (1989)

The double-track line, electrified with 1500 V DC , branches off the Keiō line at Higashi-Fuchū station . It leads about 900 meters to the west and ends without stopping at Fuchūkeiba-seimommae station . This station is located about 250 meters north of the main grandstand of the Tokyo Racecourse ( 東京 競 馬 場 , Tōkyō Keiba-jō ). Like the vast majority of the Keiō Dentetsu tracks, the “racetrack line” has the unusual gauge of 1372 mm (so-called “Scottish track”).

Trains

On weekdays, a two-car train runs in one-man operation every 20 minutes during the day, and every 10 to 15 minutes during rush hour. You have to change to Higashi-Fuchū. On weekends and public holidays (especially at major events) trains with eight or ten cars run every 20 minutes. There are also several fast train connections to and from Shinjuku in central Tokyo . The closing time is in all cases at 10:00 p.m., significantly earlier than on the rest of the Keiō route network.

history

To cope with the rain leisure traffic to the racecourse the railway company built Keio Dentetsu one in Higashi Fuchū from the Keio line branching branch line and took that on 29 April 1955 in operation. From the beginning it was expanded to two tracks, while the contact wire voltage was initially 600 V and was increased to 1500 V on August 4, 1963. For reasons of rationalization, Keiō Dentetsu introduced the one-man operation on working days on July 28, 1998.

List of train stations

Surname		km	Connecting lines	location	place
KO23	Higashi-Fuchū ( 東 府中 )	0.0	Keiō line	Coord.	Foxu
KO46	Fuchūkeiba-seimommae ( 府中 競 馬 正 門前 )	0.9		Coord.

Web links

Commons : Keiō Keibajō line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Keiō Dentetsu route network (PDF, 798 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hirokazu Terada: デ ー タ ブ ッ ク 日本 の 私 鉄 . (Data book of the Japanese private railways). Neko Publishing, Tokyo 2002, ISBN 4-87366-874-3 , pp. 205 .
2. ↑ Tetsudō Pikutoriaru, Volume 49, No. 11. Denkisha kenkyūkai, Chiyoda 1998, p. 94.

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