Keiō Inokashira lineage

Keiō Inakoshira lineage
Class 1000 multiple unit at Mitakadai
Route length:	12.7 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Top speed:	90 km / h
Dual track :	whole route
Society:	Keiō Dentetsu
Legend 0.0 Shibuya ( 渋 谷 ) 1933– Shibuya tunnel ↔ Tōkyū Den'entoshi Line 0.5 Shinsen ( 神泉 ) 1933– 1.2 Tōdaimae ( 東 大 前 ) -1965 1.4 Komaba-Tōdaimae ( 駒 場 東 大 前 ) 1965– 1.6 Komaba ( 駒 場 ) -1965 2.4 Ikenoue ( 池 ノ 上 ) 1933– ↔ Odakyū Odawara Line ↔ Odakyū Odawara Line (old route) 3.0 Shimo-Kitazawa ( 下 北 沢 ) 1927– → Shirota connection line 3.5 Shindaita ( 新 代 田 ) 1933– 4.0 Higashi-Matsubara ( 東 松原 ) 1933– ↔ Keiō line 1913– 4.9 Meidaimae ( 明 大 前 ) 1933– Shinjuku highway Kanda-gawa 6.0 Eifukuchō ( 永福 町 ) 1933– Eifukuchō depot -1970 6.7 Nishi Eifuku ( 西 永福 ) 1933– 7.5 Hamadayama ( 浜 田 山 ) 1933– 8.7 Takaido ( 高井 戸 ) 1933– 9.4 Fujimigaoka ( 富士 見 ヶ 丘 ) 1933– Fujimigaoka depot 1970– 10.2 Kugayama ( 久 我 山 ) 1933– Kanda-gawa 11.2 Mitakadai ( 三 鷹 台 ) 1933– 12.1 Inokashira-kōen ( 井 の 頭 公園 ) 1933– ← ↓ Chūō main line 1889– 12.7 Kichijōji ( 吉祥寺 ) 1934–

The Keiō Inokashira Line ( Japanese 京 王 井 の 頭 線 , Keiō Inokashira-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the Keiō Dentetsu railway company . In Tokyo it connects the downtown Tokyo nearby Shibuya Station with the city of Musashino . It is named after Inokashira Park .

description

Bridge in Inokashira Park

The 12.7 km long, double-track line is electrified with 1500 V DC . It serves 17 train stations and has a top speed of 90 km / h. In contrast to all other lines of the Keiō Dentetsu, the Inokashira line is not laid in the so-called "Scottish track" (1372 mm), but in Cape track (1067 mm). There is no track connection to other routes, so the Inokashira line is an island operation with a completely autonomous infrastructure. It opens up the Tokyo districts of Shibuya , Meguro , Setagaya and Suginami as well as the suburbs of Mitaka and Musashino .

The eastern starting point is Shibuya Station . There the tracks of the Inokashira Line are on the first floor of the Shibuya Mark City shopping center , about 150 meters west of the station section of JR East . Below the adjacent buildings, the route enters a tunnel. The following Shinsen station is half in a cut and half in another short tunnel. Past the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo , the route gradually climbs to the Musashino Plateau. While the route crosses under or under main streets, there are mostly level crossings at the intersections with side streets . In Meidaimae station near Meiji University, you can change to the other subnet of Keiō Dentetsu. The route turns from west to northwest and runs through the valley of the Kanda . Shortly after the Fujimigaoka station the depot follows the line. After passing the eastern end of Inokashira Park , it ends at Kichijōji Station in another shopping mall.

Trains

The timetable on the Keiō Inokashira Line is very tight. It includes local trains with stops at all stations ( 各 駅 停車 , Kakueki-teisha ) and express trains ( 急 行 , Kyūkō ), all of which travel the entire route. The latter only stop in Shimo-Kitazawa , Meidaimae , Eifukuchō and Kugayama on the way. During the day, both types of trains run alternately every eight minutes on weekdays, which results in a four-minute cycle. During the morning rush hour, only local trains run every two to four minutes. The evening rush hour offers alternating local and express trains every six minutes (every three minutes in total). On weekends and public holidays, local and express trains run alternately every eight minutes (every four minutes in total) until 7:00 p.m., and every ten minutes in the evening (five minutes in total).

history

At the beginning of the Shōwa period , two railway companies were founded in quick succession that wanted to build new railway lines to develop the rapidly growing suburbs southwest of Tokyo: the Shibuya Kyūkō Denki Tetsudō ( 渋 谷 急 行 電 気 鉄 道 , dt. "Shibuya electric rapid transit") on 28. July 1927 and the Tōkyō Kōgai Tetsudō ( 東京 郊外 鉄 道 , dt. "Tokyo suburb") on September 24, 1928. Due to the global economic crisis that began in 1929, they could not realize their plans in the planned form. They merged on February 1, 1931 and operated under the name Teito Dentetsu ( 帝都 電 鉄 , dt. "Electric Reichsauptstadtbahn") from June 19, 1933 . The reason for this was the no longer applicable part of the name Kōgai ("suburb"), since most of the communities that were to be developed had been incorporated into the city ​​of Tokyo in 1932 .

The railway company was under the control of the Kinugawa Suiryoku power company . Because of the expected high costs, she limited herself to the construction of the Shibuya line ( 渋 谷 線 , Shibuya-sen ) and dropped all other projects. Construction work began in July 1931. The section between Shibuya station and Inokashira-kōen was opened on August 1, 1933, followed by the section to Kichijōji station on April 1, 1934 . In 1940 the unused concessions expired. On May 1 of the same year, the Teito Dentetsu merged with the Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō , another railway company under the umbrella of the Kinugawa Suiryoku . Since the parent company lost its main business due to the forced nationalization of the electricity industry, it merged with its subsidiary. from which on March 1, 1941 the Odakyū Dentetsu arose. The line was given the new short-lived name Teito Line ( 帝都 線 , Teito-sen ).

After the outbreak of the Pacific War , the Japanese government sought to improve the efficiency of smaller private transport companies. To this end, in 1938 she passed the “Law for the Coordination of Land Transport Companies”, which enabled her to arrange mergers into larger units , especially in the metropolitan areas . On May 1, 1942, the Odakyū Dentetsu merged with competing companies and went on in the Daitōkyū conglomerate, which now controlled most of the non-state rail traffic in the southwest of the Tokyo metropolitan area. At the same time, the line was renamed the Inokashira Line. As the war worsened, she repeatedly suffered severe damage from air strikes by the United States Army Air Forces . The attack on the Eifukuchō workshop on May 25, 1945, when 23 of the 29 cars parked there burned out, was particularly serious.

Shinsen train station

Meidaimae train station

Parking facility at Fujimigaoka

Kichiōji Station

In the following month, the short Daita connecting line ( 代 田 連絡 線 , Daita-renraku-sen ) to the Setagaya-Daita station on the Odakyū Odawara line was established at Shindaita , so that urgently needed cars from other Daitōkyū lines to the one isolated from the rest of the route network Inokashira lineage could be brought. The connection line was in operation until 1952 and was dismantled in October 1953. Two years after the end of the war, the shareholders decided on November 26, 1947 at an extraordinary meeting to dissolve the financially troubled Daitōkyū conglomerate. The Inokashira line came into the possession of Keiō Teito Dentetsu on June 1, 1948 ( called Keiō Dentetsu since 1998 ). In 1970, the Eifukuchō workshop, which had been repaired in the meantime, was closed and replaced by a new building at Fujimigaoka. Express trains began operating on December 15, 1971.

List of train stations

Surname		km	Connecting lines	location	place
IN01	Shibuya ( 渋 谷 )	00.0	Saikyō Line Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Yamanote Line Tōkyū Den'entoshi Line Tōkyū Tōyoko Line Tokyo Metro: Fukutoshin Line Ginza Line Hanzōmon Line	Coord.	Shibuya , Tokyo
IN02	Shinsen ( 神泉 )	00.5		Coord.
IN03	Komaba-Tōdaimae ( 駒 場 東 大 前 )	01.4		Coord.	Meguro , Tokyo
IN04	Ikenoue ( 池 ノ 上 )	02.4		Coord.	Setagaya , Tokyo
IN05	Shimo-Kitazawa ( 下 北 沢 )	03.0	Odakyū Odawara line	Coord.
IN06	Shindaita ( 新 代 田 )	03.5		Coord.
IN07	Higashi-Matsubara ( 東 松原 )	04.0		Coord.
IN08	Meidaimae ( 明 大 前 )	04.9	Keiō line	Coord.
IN09	Eifukuchō ( 永福 町 )	06.0		Coord.	Suginami , Tokyo
IN 10	Nishi Eifuku ( 西 永福 )	06.7		Coord.
IN11	Hamadayama ( 浜 田 山 )	07.5		Coord.
IN12	Takaido ( 高井 戸 )	08.7		Coord.
IN13	Fujimigaoka ( 富士 見 ヶ 丘 )	09.4		Coord.
IN14	Kugayama ( 久 我 山 )	10.2		Coord.
IN15	Mitakadai ( 三 鷹 台 )	11.2		Coord.	Mitaka
IN16	Inokashira-kōen ( 井 の 頭 公園 )	12.1		Coord.
IN17	Kichijōji ( 吉祥寺 )	12.7	Chuo main line ( Chuo-speed railway line ) ( Chuo SOBU line )	Coord.	Musashino

Web links

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

• Keiō Dentetsu route network (PDF, 798 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timetable from Kichijōji (weekdays). Keiō Dentetsu , 2019, accessed February 23, 2020 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ Timetable from Kichijōji (weekends and holidays). Keiō Dentetsu, 2019, accessed February 23, 2020 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Keiō Dentetsu (Ed.): 京 王 ハ ン ド ブ ッ ク 2016 . (Keiō Handbook 2016). Tama 2016.
4. ↑ 小田急 電 鉄 の 世界 . Kōtsū Shimbun, Tokyo 2014.

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