Nagoya Tetsudō

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Nagoya Tetsudō

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legal form Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company)
ISIN XS0971995237
founding 1921
Seat 1-2-4 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya-shi, 450-8501, Aichi Prefecture , JapanJapanJapan 
management Ado Yamamoto (Chairman),
Takashi Ando (President)
Number of employees 30.192
sales 610.153 million yen
Branch Railway company
Website http://www.meitetsu.co.jp/
Status: 2015

Nagoya Tetsudō KK ( Japanese 名古屋 鉄 道 株式会社 , Nagoya Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha , English Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd. ), Meitetsu ( 名 鉄 ) for short , is a railway operator in the Japanese prefectures of Aichi and Gifu , based in Nagoya . The company is also the core company of the Meitetsu Group .

The route network has a total length of 444.2 km. There are 275 train stations. Apart from the formerly state-owned Japan Railways , it has the third longest rail network in Japan after the Kinki Nippon Tetsudō (501.1 km) and the Tōbu Tetsudō (463.3 km). The cape track (1067 mm) is used. The Meitetsu carries over 361 million passengers annually.

The transport system

Various types of trains run on the track network, with the slower trains being overtaken at selected stations:

  • Local: stops between the start and destination stations at every station
  • Semi-Express: stops at transport hubs and selected train stations
  • Express: stops at transport hubs
  • Rapid-Express: stops at important transport hubs
  • Limited-Express: drives between cities without stopping, stops at the important transport hubs in the start and destination cities
  • Rapid Limited-Express: drives between cities without stopping, stops at the most important transport hubs in the start and destination city
  • µsky Limited Express: connects Nagoya, Gifu and Inuyama with Chūbu Airport , stops at the most important transport hubs in the start and destination city

The basic cycle in the Meitetsu network is 15 minutes, i.e. H. With a few exceptions, each station is approached by a local train 4 times an hour. The entire network is quiet at night between about 12:20 a.m. and 5:30 a.m., during which time most maintenance work is carried out.

Express trains run every 30 minutes between Gifu and Toyohashi and between Ichinomiya and Toyokawa, so that there is a 15-minute cycle between Ichinomiya and Kō. There are 6 express trains per hour between Sukaguchi and Shin-Anjō, as on this section the connection from Saya to Nishio runs every 30 minutes. Trains superimposed. Another bundle of lines are express trains every 30 minutes from Shin-Unuma to Kōwa or Utsumi and semi-express trains from Shin-Kani to the airport also every 30 minutes, which run between Inuyama and Otagawa Superimpose 15-min cycle. There is another 30-minute express train service between Inuyama and Gifu.

In the area of ​​the Limited Express and Rapid Limited Express trains, there are three lines, which are served every half hour, namely Gifu - Toyohashi, Gifu - Airport and Shin-Unuma - Toyohashi, so that there is a Gifu - Toyohashi section 15-min cycle results. The µsky Limited Express runs every 30 minutes between the airport and Nagoya, with every second train going through to Shin-Unuma, resulting in a total of 4 Limited Express journeys per hour between the airport and Nagoya.

On the Seto line, which has no rail connection to the rest of the network, semi-express and express trains are offered every 30 minutes, which overlap at 15-minute intervals.

Limited express

Limited Express and Rapid Limited Express trains operate on the main lines of the Meitetsu. They usually have two-class cars. Four or six wagons per train are normal wagons (corresponding to the second class) and two wagons are first class wagons that require a reservation and for which a surcharge ticket ("μ Ticket", 360 yen) is required; these cars have individually adjustable seats. The µsky Limited Express only carries first class cars.

Main line and branches

Shut down

  • Minomachi Line, between Gifu-Tetsumeichō ( 徹明 町 駅 ) via Seki ( 関 駅 ) to Mino . The line, opened in 1911, was bought in 1930. In the city it was operated largely as a tram, the outer sections, which covered the northeast of the greater Gifu area, were laid out like an overland tram . The section north of Seki was closed in 1999, the rest of the line closed in 2005. The connections of this overland railway to the northwest of Gifu, the Ibi line to Honibi opened in 1909 and a branch line to Tanigumi, were also discontinued from 1988 to 2005. The reason given for the discontinuation of the Gifu tram was the long-term critical financial situation of the Meitetsu railway company and the lack of interest on the part of local authorities in maintaining the railway.

literature

  • Oliver Mayer: Meitetsu - operation and structure of a Japanese private railway ; In: The Bulletin of Aichi University of Education, 2019 (Vol. 68) (Humanities, Social Sciences), pp. 111–123. Link to the full text

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview of the Meitetsu Group for Fiscal 2016. (PDF) Nagoya Railroad, accessed on November 29, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ http://www.usrail.jp/er-japan-gifu.htm#feature
  4. ↑ http://www.usrail.jp/er-japan-gifu.htm#preservation