Negishi line

Negishi line
Negishi Line at Yokohama Station
Route length:	22.1 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Top speed:	95 km / h
Dual track :	whole route
Society:	JR East
Legend ← Sōtetsu main line 1926– → Tōyoko line 1926-2004 → Tōyoko line 2004– ↔ Yokosuka Line 1889– ↔ Tōkaidō main line 1887– → Keihin Tōhoku Line 1914– ↔ Keikyū main line 1931– 0.0 Yokohama ( 横 浜 ) 1915– → Minatomirai line 2004– Takashimacho 1928-2004 → Takashima Line 1964– 2.0 Sakuragichō ( 桜 木 町 ) 1872– Ōoka-gawa 3.0 Kannai ( 関 内 ) 1964– 3.8 Ishikawachō ( 石川 町 ) 1964– City motorway K3 Nakamura-gawa (3 tunnels) 5.0 Yamate ( 山 手 ) 1964– Yaguchidai tunnel (662 m) → Honmoku line 1969– 7.1 Negishi ( 根 岸 ) 1964– Horiwari-gawa 9.5 Isogo ( 磯 子 ) 1964– 11.1 Shin-Sugita ( 新 杉 田 ) 1970– → Kanazawa Seaside Line 1989– ↔ Keikyū main line 1930– (3 tunnels) 14.1 Yōkōdai ( 洋 光 台 ) 1970– Yokohama-Yokosuka Highway (2 tunnels) 16.0 Kōnandai ( 港 南台 ) 1973– 2. Hino tunnel (1181 m) 18.5 Hongōdai ( 本 郷 台 ) 1973– ← ↓ Tōkaidō main line 1887– ← Dreamland Monorail 1966-1967 22.1 Ōfuna ( 大船 ) 1888– → Yokosuka Line 1889– ↓ Shōnan Monorail 1970–

The Negishi Line ( Japanese 根 岸線 , Negishi-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the JR East railway company . In the south of the Tokyo metropolitan area , it mostly runs in the area of ​​the metropolis of Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture . It connects the main train station with the districts on the coast and the neighboring city of Kamakura . Operationally, the Negishi line is an integral continuation of the Keihin-Tōhoku line that connects Yokohama with Tokyo and Saitama . For this reason, the Keihin-Tōhoku-Negishi line ( 京 浜 東北 根 岸線 , Keihin-Tōhoku-Negishi-sen ) is often used .

Route description

As usual in Japan, the Negishi line is laid in Cape gauge (1067 mm). It is 22.1 km long, has two tracks and is electrified with 1500 V DC . Twelve stations are served (including the terminal stations), the maximum speed is 95 km / h. The line is named after Negishi Bay, which borders Tokyo Bay .

The line's northern starting point is Yokohama Station , where it is directly connected to the tracks of the Keihin-Tōhoku line . It initially leads southeast through the city center to Sakuragichō . This section of the route once ran directly along the coast, but due to decades of land reclamation , it is now more than a kilometer away. The Takashima line, which serves exclusively for freight traffic and runs through the port area to Tsurumi , joins approximately in the middle between the two stations . The Negishi Line turns gradually to the southwest, crosses a range of hills in four tunnels and reaches the port facilities on Negishi Bay. The Honmoku line of the Kanagawa Rinkai Tetsudō joins the Negishi station from the east , which like the Takashima line is only used by freight trains.

The Negishi Line follows the edge of the port to the south. Immediately after Shin-Sugita , where there is a connection to the Kanazawa Seaside Line , the route turns west. It crosses the Keikyū main line on a bridge and traverses a hilly area in seven successive tunnels. West of Hongōdai it meets the Tōkaidō main line and follows this on parallel tracks south to the Ōfuna station on the northern outskirts of Kamakura . There is a transition to the Tōkaidō freight line between Hongōdai and Ōfuna .

Trains

The timetable of the Negishi line is integrated into that of the subsequent Keihin-Tōhoku line . Through local trains connect Ōmiya station in Saitama prefecture with Ueno , Tokyo , Shinagawa , Kawasaki , Yokohama and Ōfuna . Around a third of all trains already turn in Isogo . With the exception of the fringe hours, there are no trains that run exclusively on the Negishi line. There is also a close connection between the Negishi Line and the Yokohama Line : On weekdays between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and on weekends between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., three express trains per hour are offered that run from Sakuragichō via Yokohama to Hachiōji ; there are also local trains from Sakuragichō to Hashimoto (during rush hour there are occasional trips from and to Ōfuna).

As a rule, seven to ten trains per hour run during the day, during rush hour 12 to 14. Because of the overlap with the Yokohama line, up to 20 trains per hour are offered on the section between Yokohama and Sakuragichō stations. The cycle is generally a little less dense than on the Keihin-Tōhoku line, as the Negishi line between Sakuragichō and Ōfuna also has to take up heavy goods traffic to the port facilities. JR Freight freight trains reach the route on the Takashima Line, Honmoku Line and Tōkaidō Freight Line. Whose main objective is the oil refinery of Nippon Oil next to the station Negishi.

From April 27, 1996, JR East also offered the Hamakaji express trains. These operated on weekends and holidays from Kamakura via the Negishi line to Yokohama and from there on via Hachiōji, Kōfu and Shiojiri to Matsumoto . Due to lower demand, they were discontinued on January 3, 2019.

history

The section north of Sakuragichō Station is part of the oldest railway line in Japan, which connected Yokohama with Tokyo . It was provisionally opened on June 12, 1872, and officially on October 14 of the same year. The commencement of freight traffic took place almost eleven months later on September 15, 1873. Sakuragichō was the city's main train station for over four decades and almost all passenger trains on the Tōkaidō main line were here. To avoid the terminus , there was a shortcut to Hodogaya since 1898 . Yokohama station was built on this in 1915 , but it was destroyed eight years later in the Great Kanto earthquake . In 1928 it was replaced by a new building a little further north.

The Railroad Office of the Cabinet (later the Ministry of Railways ) electrified part of the Tōkaidō main line, so that from December 20, 1914, local trains ran from Sakuragichō to Tokyo. This was the nucleus of today's Keihin-Tōhoku lineage . In 1920 the Ministry of Railways presented a project to extend the electric suburban railway. The route should first lead from Sakuragichō along the Oōka River to Hodogaya. Then an additional pair of tracks was planned parallel to the Tōkaidō main line to Ōfuna . This plan was abandoned after the 1923 earthquake. 14 years later, in the appendix of the Railway Construction Act of March 31, 1937, a new project for the construction of a line from Sakuragichō to Kita-Kamakura, the basis of the later Negishi line, appeared.

Train at Yōkōdai (1984)

On April 24, 1951, when a train entered the Sakuragicho station, a serious accident occurred in which 105 people were killed. In 1957 the decision was made to implement the plan presented 20 years earlier in a different form. The Japanese State Railways opened the section between Sakuragichō and Isogo on May 19, 1964 , with the extended route being given the new name Negishi Line. On March 17, 1970 the Negishi Line was extended to Yōkōdai and on April 9, 1973 to Ōfuna .

With the opening of a branch line of the Takashima line running in the port area, freight trains also ran between Sakuragichō and Isogo from June 1, 1964. The state railway extended freight traffic to bahnfuna on October 1, 1973, but withdrew it to Isogo on February 1, 1984. As part of the privatization of the state railways, the line went into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight took over the freight traffic and operated this again in part to Ōfuna.

On a viaduct parallel to the Negishi Line, between the Yokohama and Sakuragichō stations, the Tōyoko Line ran since March 31, 1932 . The Tōkyū Dentetsu withdrew this line on January 30, 2004 and began two days later to direct their trains to the new Minatomirai line , which begins in Yokohama station. The city council then had the viaduct that was no longer needed redesigned into an urban green area and opened it to the public between 2006 and 2011 as the Tōyoko Flower Green Road .

List of train stations

Ishikawachō Station

Yamate Railway Station

Tank car train next to Negishi station

Surname		km	Connecting lines	location	place
JK12	Yokohama ( 横 浜 )	00.0	Tōkaidō Main Line Keihin-Tōhoku Line Yokosuka Line Tōyoko Line Keikyū Main Line Sōtetsu Main Line Yokohama Subway : Blue Line Minatomirai Line	Coord.	Nishi-ku , Yokohama
JK11	Sakuragichō ( 桜 木 町 )	02.0	Yokohama Subway: Blue Line	Coord.	Naka-ku , Yokohama
JK10	Kannai ( 関 内 )	03.0	Yokohama Subway: Blue Line	Coord.
JK09	Ishikawachō ( 石川 町 )	03.8		Coord.
JK08	Yamate ( 山 手 )	05.0		Coord.
JK07	Negishi ( 根 岸 )	07.1		Coord.	Isogo-ku , Yokohama
JK06	Isogo ( 磯 子 )	09.5		Coord.
JK05	Shin-Sugita ( 新 杉 田 )	11.1	Kanazawa Seaside Line at Sugita Station: Keikyū Main Line	Coord.
JK04	Yōkōdai ( 洋 光 台 )	14.1		Coord.
JK03	Kōnandai ( 港 南台 )	16.0		Coord.	Kōnan-ku , Yokohama
JK02	Hongōdai ( 本 郷 台 )	18.5		Coord.	Sakae-ku , Yokohama
JK01	Ōfuna ( 大船 )	22.1	Tōkaidō Main Line Shōnan Shinjuku Line Yokosuka Line Shōnan Monorail	Coord.	Kamakura

Web links

Commons : Negishi Line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• JR East route network (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JR 時刻表 2019 年 3 月 号 (JR timetable March 2019). Kōtsū shinbunsha, Tokyo 2019.
2. ↑ Weekday schedule in the direction of Yokohama. JR East , 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Weekday timetable in the direction of Ōfuna. JR East , 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
4. ↑ 春 の 増 発 列車 の お 知 ら せ. (PDF, 758 kB) JR East , January 18, 2019, accessed August 20, 2020 (Japanese). 
5. ^ Dan Free: Early Japanese Railways 1853-1914: Engineering Triumphs That Transformed Meiji-era Japan . Turtle Publishing, Clarendon 2014, ISBN 978-4-8053-1290-2 , pp. 77-80 .
6. ↑ 旧 横 浜 駅 （3 代） の 松 杭 撤去 . In: Tetsudō Kenchiku News . No. 369 . Japanese Railway Association, Tokyo 1980, p. 30-34 .
7. ↑ 「地 図」 で 探 る 横 浜 の 鉄 道 . Yokohama toshi had kinen-kan, Yokohama 2014, ISBN 978-4-9905683-0-6 , p. 58-64 .
8. ↑ 鉄 道 敷設 法 中 改正 法律. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , April 1, 1937, accessed August 18, 2020 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ Train fire at Sakuragichō. Failure Knowledge Database, accessed August 20, 2020 . 
10. ↑ ^{a b} Tetsu Ishino (Ed.): 停車場 変 遷 大事 典 国 鉄 ・ JR 編 (station change directory JNR / JR) . JTB, Tokyo 1998, ISBN 978-4-533-02980-6 .
11. ↑ 東 横線 と み な と み ら い 21 線 と の 相互 直通 運 転 開始 に 伴 う 東 横線 横 横 浜 〜 桜 木 町 間 の 廃 止 に つ い て. (PDF, 18 kB) Tōkyū Dentetsu, January 30, 2003, archived from the original on April 14, 2015 ; Retrieved August 20, 2020 (Japanese). 
12. ↑ 東 急 東 横線 の 跡 地 利用. Yokohama City, March 14, 2019, accessed August 20, 2020 (Japanese). 

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