Odakyū Enoshima Line

Odakyū Enoshima Line
Class 10000 multiple unit in Fujisawa
Route length:	27.6 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Top speed:	110 km / h
Dual track :	whole route
Society:	Odakyū Dentetsu
Legend Shinjuku ( 相 模 大野 ) 1927– 0.0 Sagami-Ōno ( 相 模 大野 ) 1938– ← ↑ Odakyū Odawara line 1927– 1.5 Higashi-Rinkan ( 東 林 間 ) 1929– 3.0 Chūō-Rinkan ( 中央 林 間 ) 1929– → Tōkyū Den'entoshi lineage 1984– 4.5 Minami-Rinkan ( 南林 間 ) 1929– 5.1 Tsuruma ( 鶴 間 ) 1929– Tōmei Highway 7.6 Yamato ( 大 和 ) 1929– ↔ Sōtetsu main line 1926– 9.8 Sakuragaoka ( 桜 ヶ 丘 ) 1952– 11.8 Kōza-Shibuya ( 高 座 渋 谷 ) 1929– ↔ Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1964– 14.0 Chōgo ( 長 後 ) 1929– → Sōtetsu Izumino Line 1964– 15.6 Shōnandai ( 湘南 台 ) 1966– → Blue line 1999– 17.3 Mutsuai-Nichidai-mae ( 六 会 日 大 前 ) 1929– 19.7 Zengyō ( 善行 ) 1960– 21.3 Fujisawa-Hommachi ( 藤 沢 本 町 ) 1929– 23.1 ↔ Tōkaidō main line 1887– 23.1 Fujisawa ( 藤 沢 ) 1887– ↓ Enoshima Dentetsu line 1902– 24.6 Hon-Kugenuma ( 本 鵠 沼 ) 1929– 25.9 Kugenuma Kaigan ( 鵠 沼 海岸 ) 1929– 27.6 Katase Enoshima ( 片 瀬 江 ノ 島 ) 1929–

The Odakyū Enoshima Line ( Japanese 小田急 江 ノ 島 線 , Odakyū Enoshima-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the Odakyū Dentetsu railway company . It is a branch of the Odakyū Odawara Line in Kanagawa Prefecture . It opens up the city of Fujisawa and ends near the Enoshima peninsula, which is important for tourism .

Route description

The 27.6 km long route is laid in Cape Gauge (1067 mm), electrified with 1500 V DC and completely expanded to two-track. It serves 17 train stations and the maximum speed is 110 km / h. The northern starting point is the Sagami-Ōno , where the route branches off from the Odakyū Odawara line to the south. Immediately at the junction, it passes the Ōno depot. It then crosses the Sagamino plateau approximately in a north-south direction. Although the route runs through undulating terrain, it is largely straight and has few curves, which means that it is alternately up and down. In Chūō-Rinkan there is a connection to the Den'entoshi line of the Tōkyū Dentetsu , in Yamato to the Sōtetsu main line of the Sagami Tetsudō and in Shōnandai to the Sōtetsu Izumino line and to the blue line of the Yokohama subway . All of these routes run underground in the area of ​​the intersection with the Enoshima Line.

Shortly after Zengyō the only tunnel is passed. In downtown Fujisawa, the Enoshima Line turns east, passes under the Tōkaidō Main Line and reaches Fujisawa Station . In this terminus , all trains have to make a hairpin . It continues in the opposite direction. After leaving the terminus, the line initially crosses the coastal plain southwest. It then turns in a wide arc to the southeast and follows the coast of Sagami Bay . It finally ends at Katase-Enoshima station , which is located on the right bank of the Sakai River, just before it flows into the Pacific .

Trains

Since the timetable change on March 17, 2018, four types of train have been offered, three of which are switching to the Odawara line in Sagami-Ōno or are routed from this to the Enoshima line. The romance car express trains, which are mainly used for tourist traffic, are known throughout Japan . They form the train type Tokkyū ( 特急 , English Limited Express ). Reservations are required for all seats on these particularly comfortably equipped trains. In addition to the basic fare, a surcharge of almost the same amount must be paid. The rolling stock differs markedly from that of the regular trains; As a special feature, the younger series have pulpit cars at the ends of the train. From Shinjuku , the romance car trains run four times a day to Fujisawa or Katase-Enoshima and back on weekdays, and even twelve times on weekends and public holidays.

The express trains Kyūkō ( English Express) and Kaisoku-kyūkō (Rapid Express), which run from Shinjuku and together form an approximate 20-minute cycle, are not subject to a surcharge . On working days, Fujisawa is the terminus in all cases, on weekends and public holidays almost all express trains continue to Katase-Enoshima. The local trains ( Kakueki-teisha ) stopping at all stations run every ten minutes and are mostly limited to the connection between Sagami-Ōno and Katase-Enoshima. The northern terminus of individual trains is in Machida .

history

Founded in 1922, the Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō railway company , a subsidiary of the Kinugawa Suiryoku electricity company , was granted the concession in October 1926 for a route that branches off the Odakyū Odawara line, which is already under construction, and goes via Fujisawa to Enoshima on the Sagami -Bay should lead. After a year of construction (and two years after the Odawara line), the entire Enoshima line to Katase-Enoshima was opened on April 1, 1929 , and was double-tracked and electrified from the start. Since the area around the junction was not built over and there was only one signal, Shin-Hanamachida initially took over the task of the junction station. From April 1, 1938, the Sagami-Ōno station , built around 200 meters from the junction, was the new starting point.

The Pacific War brought about significant changes. Since the Kinugawa Suiryoku lost its main business due to the forced nationalization of the electricity industry, it merged with the Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō , which resulted in the Odakyū Dentetsu on March 1, 1941. On the basis of the 1938 law for the coordination of land transport companies, the company went on May 1, 1942 in the Daitōkyū conglomerate. Two years after the end of the war, the shareholders decided at an extraordinary meeting to dissolve the financially troubled conglomerate through spin-offs . So took the Odakyū Dentetsu on June 1, 1948 as an independent company to resume business.

During the war, the second track between Fujisawa and Katase-Enoshima was removed to support the war economy . In 1948/49 the Odakyū Dentetsu expanded this section again to double-track. After 22 years of operation, freight traffic was stopped on November 6, 1960. With increasing suburbanization , several new train stations were added over the years. This included the Shōnandai station in 1960 with a transition to the Sōtetsu Izumino line . In 1984 and 1999, transitions to the Den'entoshi line in Chūō-Rinkan and the Yokohama subway in Shōnandai were added.

List of train stations

Branch at Sagami-Ōno, the depot in the background

Tunnel at Zengyō

Katase-Enoshima Railway Station

Ky = Kyūkō (express); Kk = Kaisoku-kyūkō (Rapid Express)

Surname		km	Ky	Kk	Connecting lines	location	place
OH28	Sagami-Ōno ( 相 模 大野 )	00.0	●	●	Odakyū Odawara line	Coord.	Sagamihara
OE01	Higashi-Rinkan ( 東 林 間 )	01.5	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE02	Chūō-Rinkan ( 中央 林 間 )	03.0	●	●	Tōkyū Den'entoshi line	Coord.	Yamato
OE03	Minami-Rinkan ( 南林 間 )	04.5	●	ǀ		Coord.
OE04	Tsuruma ( 鶴 間 )	05.1	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE05	Yamato ( 大 和 )	07.6	●	●	Sōtetsu main line	Coord.
OE06	Sakuragaoka ( 桜 ヶ 丘 )	09.8	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE07	Kōza-Shibuya ( 高 座 渋 谷 )	11.8	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE08	Chōgo ( 長 後 )	14.0	●	ǀ		Coord.	Fujisawa
OE09	Shōnandai ( 湘南 台 )	15.8	●	●	Sōtetsu Izumino Line Yokohama Subway : Blue Line	Coord.
OE10	Mutsuai-Nichidai-mae ( 六 会 日 大 前 )	17.3	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE11	Zengyō ( 善行 )	19.7	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE12	Fujisawa-Hommachi ( 藤 沢 本 町 )	21.3	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE13	Fujisawa ( 藤 沢 )	23.1	●	●	Main Tōkaidō Line Enoshima Line	Coord.
OE14	Hon-Kugenuma ( 本 鵠 沼 )	24.6	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE15	Kugenuma Kaigan ( 鵠 沼 海岸 )	25.9	ǀ	ǀ		Coord.
OE16	Katase Enoshima ( 片 瀬 江 ノ 島 )	27.6	●	●		Coord.

Web links

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

• Route network of the Odakyū Dentetsu (PDF, 1.5 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yūichi Terada: 改 訂 新版 デ ー タ ブ ッ ク 日本 の 私 鉄 . Neko Publishing, Tokyo 2013, ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4 .
2. ↑ About the Romancecar. Odakyū Dentetsu , accessed June 2, 2020 . 
3. ^ Romancecar Timetables. Odakyū Dentetsu, accessed June 2, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Weekday timetable from Sagami-Ōno. Odakyū Dentetsu, 2020, accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese). 
5. ↑ 鉄 道 免 許 状 下 付. In: Official Gazette. National Library of Parliament , October 7, 1926; accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese). 
6. ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library, April 6, 1929, accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese). 
7. ↑ 私 鉄 沿線 ・ い ま 小田急 電 鉄 相 模 大野 駅. In: Kōtsū shinbun , December 3, 1996, p. 2.
8. ↑ 小田急 五 十年 史 ”. 小田急 電 鉄 (1980 年). Shibusawa Shashi Database, accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese). 
9. ↑ 藤 沢 市 歴 史 年表. Fujisawa City, accessed June 2, 2020 (Japanese). 

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