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Type 711 railcar between Shadai and Nishikioka
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Route length: | 211.0 km + 7.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | partly 20 kV 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 120 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : | Oshamambe - Tōya Usu - Nagawa Mareppu - Mikawa Yuni - Kuriyama Muroran - Higashi-Muroran |
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The Muroran Main Line ( Japanese 室 蘭 本 線 , Muroran-honsen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō , which is operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido). It runs from Oshamambe to Iwamizawa . A branch line in the city of Muroran also belongs to the main Muroran line . The section between Iwamizawa and Muroran was opened in 1892, the remainder of the route was gradually built in the 1920s. The Muroran main line plays an important role in freight and express train traffic.
description
The Muroran main line includes a main line and a branch line, both of which are laid in Cape gauge (1067 mm). The former is 211.0 km long and runs along the south coast of Hokkaidō from Oshamambe via Muroran to Tomakomai , from where it leads to the center of the island to Iwamizawa . The branch line is 7.0 km long and connects districts of Muroran with each other. 47 train stations and stops will be developed for passenger transport, and JR Freight also operates three freight stations (two in Muroran and one in Tomakomai). The longest straight section of the Japanese rail network (28.7 km) extends between Shiraoi and Numanohata stations .
A total of 176.7 km (or a little more than four fifths) of the Muroran main line are two- lane:
- Oshamambe-Tōya (41.5 km)
- Usu - Nagawa (4.9 km)
- Mareppu - Mikawa (118.2 km)
- Yuni - Kuriyama (5.1 km)
- Muroran - Higashi-Muroran (7.0 km)
The Muroran – Higashi-Muroran-Numanohata section is electrified with 20 kV 50 Hz alternating voltage .
Trains
The section between Oshamambe and Numanohata is part of the main route from Hakodate to Sapporo . All express trains and most of the freight trains between these two cities use the Muroran main line and the subsequent Chitose line instead of the older and steeper route via Otaru .
The diesel-powered Super Hokuto and Hokuto express trains run between Hakodate and Sapporo every one to two hours. This offer is supplemented by the electric Suzuran express trains between Muroran and Sapporo. All sleeper trains were discontinued: Hokutosei and Twilight Express in 2015, Cassiopeia and Hamanasu in 2016.
For the operation of local trains, the Muroran main line is usually divided into four sections. They are: Oshamembe-Higashi-Muroran, Higashi-Muroran-Muroran, Higashi-Muroran-Tomakomai and Tomakomai-Iwamizawa.
history
The mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō opened on August 1, 1892, the section from Iwamizawa via Tomakomai to Higashi-Muroran . The primary goal was to connect the Ishikari coalfield around Iwamizawa with the port of Muroran and the steel industry being developed there. On July 1, 1897, the section between Higashi-Muroran and Muroran was opened . According to a law passed by the Reichstag , the Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō was nationalized on October 1, 1906.
The now responsible Railway Authority (from 1920 the Ministry of Railways ) expanded the Muroran main line in sections to double lanes: Muroran – Higashi-Muroran (1910), Tomakomai – Toasa (1920), Toasa – Oiwake (1921) and Horobetsu – Noboribetsu (1926). In the 1920s, the Ministry of Railways implemented a new project, the construction of a link between the Hakodate Main Line and Muroran. The first section of the temporarily called Chōrin Line ( 長 輪 線 , Chōrin-sen ) between Oshamambe and Shizukari was opened on December 10, 1923. On August 20, 1925, the section between Higashi-Muroran and Datemombetsu followed . The missing middle section between Shizukari and Datemombetsu went into operation on September 10, 1928. Since 1931, the Chōrin Line has been considered part of the Muroran Main Line.
The first Hokkaidō train pulled by a diesel locomotive ran on July 1, 1934 between Muroran and Higashi-Muroran. During the Second World War , the Ministry of Railways expanded three more sections to double track: Higashi-Muroran-Horobetsu (1943), Oiwake-Mikawa and Moto-Wanishi-Higashi-Muroran (both 1944). After several years of interruption, the Japanese State Railways continued to expand the double track: Itoi – Tomakomai (1953), Nishikioka – Itoi (1954), Shiraoi – Nishikioka and Hagino – Shiraoi (1957), Takeura – Hagino (1958) and Shizukari – Rebun (1964) . Because of a landslide, the Muroran Main Line was interrupted from September 27 to October 20, 1967 between Toyoura and Tōya.
Step by step the state railway expanded further sections to double track: Usu – Nagawa, Yuni – Kuriyama, Mareppu – Jinyamachi and Ōkishi – Toyoura (all 1968), Oshamambe – Shizukari and Kuriyama – Kurioka (both 1969), Toyoura – Tōya (1970) , Rebun – Ōkishi (1975) and finally Jinyamachi – Moto-Wanishi (1978). The last steam-powered passenger train in Japan ran from Iwamizawa to Muroran on December 14, 1975. For the time being, the last expansion step was the electrification of the Muroran – Higashi-Muroran – Numanohata section on October 1, 1980. The 1.4 km long section between Muroran and the Nishi-Muroran freight yard was closed on March 14, 1985.
With the privatization of the state railway, the Muroran main line was transferred to the newly founded JR Hokkaido on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight took over the freight traffic. On April 23, 1990, one of the two single-lane tunnel tubes collapsed on the two-lane section between Kuriyama and Kurioka; Since the decline of coal mining in the 1970s, fewer trains have run on this section than before, the reconstruction was not carried out. On October 1, 1997, the terminus in Muroran was relocated, which resulted in the shortening of the branch line by a further 1.1 km. Due to violent eruptions of the Usu volcano , the entire route between Higashi-Muroran and Oshamambe had to be closed on March 29, 2000. Freight traffic was resumed to a limited extent on April 27, and passenger traffic two days later; From June 8th, all trains ran again according to the timetable.
In November 2016, JR Hokkaido announced an extensive rationalization program, which affects the Numanohata – Iwamizawa section, among other things. The railway company wants to persuade the neighboring communities to bear part of the operating and maintenance costs. If no agreement is reached by 2019, this section could also be closed.
List of train stations
Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place | |
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H47 | Oshamambe ( 長 万 部 ) | 0.0 | Hakodate main line | Coord. | Oshamambe |
H46 | Shizukari ( 静 狩 ) | 10.6 | Coord. | ||
H45 | Koboro ( 小 幌 ) | 17.5 | Coord. | Toyoura | |
H44 | Rebun ( 礼 文 ) | 23.6 | Coord. | ||
H43 | Ōkishi ( 大 岸 ) | 27.7 | Coord. | ||
H42 | Toyoura ( 豊 浦 ) | 36.1 | Coord. | ||
H41 | Tōya ( 洞 爺 ) | 41.5 | Coord. | Tōyako | |
H40 | Usu ( 有 珠 ) | 46.6 | Coord. | Date | |
H39 | Nagawa ( 長 和 ) | 51.5 | Coord. | ||
H38 | Datemombetsu ( 伊達 紋 別 ) | 54.5 | Coord. | ||
H37 | Kita-Funaoka ( 北 舟 岡 ) | 57.4 | Coord. | ||
H36 | Mareppu ( 稀 府 ) | 60.6 | Coord. | ||
H35 | Kogane ( 黄金 ) | 65.1 | Coord. | ||
H34 | Sakimori ( 崎 守 ) | 67.3 | Coord. | Muroran | |
H33 | Moto-Wanishi ( 本輪 西 ) | 72.7 | Coord. | ||
H32 | Higashi Muroran ( 東 室 蘭 ) | 77.2 | Muroran branch line | Coord. | |
H31 | Washibetsu ( 鷲 別 ) | 79.1 | Coord. | Noboribetsu | |
H30 | Horobetsu ( 幌 別 ) | 86.8 | Coord. | ||
H29 | Tomiura ( 富 浦 ) | 92.3 | Coord. | ||
H28 | Noboribetsu ( 登 別 ) | 94.7 | Coord. | ||
H27 | Kojōhama ( 虎杖 浜 ) | 98.1 | Coord. | Shiraoi | |
H26 | Takeura ( 竹 浦 ) | 102.9 | Coord. | ||
H25 | Kita-Yoshihara ( 北 吉 原 ) | 105.7 | Coord. | ||
H24 | Hagino ( 萩 野 ) | 107.8 | Coord. | ||
H23 | Shiraoi ( 白 老 ) | 113.6 | Coord. | ||
H22 | Shadai ( 社 台 ) | 119.1 | Coord. | ||
H21 | Nishikioka ( 錦 岡 ) | 125.4 | Coord. | Tomakomai | |
H20 | Itoi ( 糸 井 ) | 130.6 | Coord. | ||
H19 | Aoba ( 青葉 ) | 132.8 | Coord. | ||
H18 | Tomakomai ( 苫 小 牧 ) | 135.2 | Hidaka main line | Coord. | |
H17 | Numanohata ( 沼 ノ 端 ) | 144.0 | Chitose line | Coord. | |
Toasa ( 遠 浅 ) | 152.9 | Coord. | Abira | ||
Hayakita ( 早 来 ) | 158.3 | Coord. | |||
Abira ( 安平 ) | 164.0 | Coord. | |||
K15 | Oiwake ( 追 分 ) | 170.8 | Sekishō line | Coord. | |
Mikawa ( 三 川 ) | 178.8 | Coord. | Yuni | ||
Furusan ( 古 山 ) | 182.2 | Coord. | |||
Yuni ( 由 仁 ) | 186.4 | Coord. | |||
Kuriyama ( 栗 山 ) | 191.5 | Coord. | Kuriyama | ||
Kurioka ( 栗 丘 ) | 195.7 | Coord. | Iwamizawa | ||
Kurisawa ( 栗 沢 ) | 199.6 | Coord. | |||
Shibun ( 志 文 ) | 203.9 | Coord. | |||
A13 | Iwamizawa ( 岩 見 沢 ) | 211.0 | Hakodate main line | Coord. | |
Muroran branch line | |||||
H32 | Higashi Muroran ( 東 室 蘭 ) | 0.0 | Muroran | ||
M33 | Wanishi ( 輪 西 ) | 2.3 | Coord. | ||
M34 | Misaki ( 御 崎 ) | 4.2 | Coord. | ||
M35 | Bokoi ( 母 恋 ) | 5.9 | Coord. | ||
M36 | Muroran ( 室 蘭 ) | 7.0 | Coord. |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Muroran Main Line. jisho.org, accessed July 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 60-61 .
- ↑ a b c Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, pp. 58–59.
- ^ The Last Days of Japanese Steam Engines. (No longer available online.) In: A profile of Japanese steam locomotives. Good Old Rail, archived from the original on September 13, 2016 ; accessed on July 9, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道, p. 315.
- ↑ JR Hokkaido says it can't maintain half of its railways. The Japan Times , November 19, 2016, accessed January 16, 2017 .