Sagami line

Sagami line
Class EC205-500 multiple unit between Ebina and Atsugi
Route length:	33.3 km
Gauge :	1067 mm ( cape track )
Power system :	1500 V  =
Top speed:	85 km / h
Dual track :	No
Society:	JR East
Legend 0.0 Chigasaki ( 茅 ケ 崎 ) 1898– ↔ Tōkaidō main line 1887– Chigasaki parking area 1.3 Kita-Chigasaki ( 北 茅 ケ 崎 ) 1940– Enzō ( 円 蔵 ) -1944 Shinshōnan Highway 3.4 Kagawa ( 香 川 ) 1921– Oide-gawa 5.1 0.0 * Samukawa ( 寒 川 ) 1921– 1.5 * Nishi-Samukawa ( 西 寒 川 ) 1923-1984 2.0 * Shinomiya -1944 Mekujiri-gawa 0.9 Kawasamukawa -1931 7.2 Miyayama ( 宮 山 ) 1931– ↔ Tōkaidō Shinkansen 1964– 8.6 Kurami ( 倉 見 ) 1926– 10.0 Kadosawabashi ( 門 沢 橋 ) 1931– 11.6 Shake ( 社 家 ) 1926– Tōmei Highway 12.9 Dodge Sannogen -1949 13.9 Nakashinden ( 中 新 田 ) 1932-1944 → Odakyū Odawara line 1926– 14.2 Atsugi ( 厚 木 )          1926– 15.9 Ebina ( 海 老 名 )       1941– ← Sōtetsu main line 1926– ← ↑ Sōtetsu Atsugi lineage 1941– ← Odakyū Odawara line 1927– 17.4 Kami-Imaizumi ( 上 今 泉 ) 1931-1944 18.9 Iriya ( 入 谷 ) 1935– 19.7 Honzama ( 本 座 間 ) -1944 Hato-gawa 20.6 Sōbudaishita ( 相 武 台下 ) 1931– 22.6 Kami-Isobu ( 上 磯 部 ) -1943 23.5 Shimomizo ( 下 溝 ) 1931– 24.8 Harataima ( 原 当 麻 ) 1931– 26.9 Banda ( 番 田 ) 1931– Hato-gawa Uba-gawa 28.4 Kamimizo ( 上 溝 ) 1931– 30.2 Sakunokuchi ( 作 ノ 口 ) 1931-1944 31.3 Minami Hashimoto ( 南橋 本 ) 1932– ← ↓ Yokohama Line 1908– ← Keiō Sagamihara lineage 1990– 33.3 Hashimoto ( 橋本 ) 1908–

The Sagami Line ( Japanese 相 模 線 , Sagami-sen ) is a railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū , which is operated by the JR East railway company . It runs through the Sagami Valley in Kanagawa Prefecture . It connects the cities of Chigasaki and Sagamihara to the west of Yokohama .

route

The Sagami Line, laid in Cape Gauge (1067 mm), is 33.3 km long, single-track and electrified with 1500 V direct current . It serves 18 train stations, with train crossings at ten intermediate stations; the maximum speed is 85 km / h. The southern starting point is Chigasaki station on the Tōkaidō main line . The route runs northwards and first crosses the tributary Oide before reaching the Sagami Valley at Samukawa. Following the east bank of the river, it crosses the Tōkaidō-Shinkansen high-speed line and the Odakyū Odawara line . After Shimonizo, it moves away from the river, crosses the Sagamino plateau and ends at Hashimoto station in the Sakai valley.

Trains

Local trains run every 15 minutes during the morning and evening rush hour, every 20 minutes during the day and every half hour late in the evening. During rush hour, individual trains from Hashimoto continue on the Yokohama Line to Hachiōji and back. On the southern half of the route, between Chigasaki and Atsugi , JR Freight operates sporadically freight traffic.

history

In December 1917, local entrepreneurs founded the Sagami Tetsudō railway company with the aim of promoting the extraction of gravel on the Sagami River. The gravel mining at Kawasamukawa began in 1919, with the material extracted there being transported to Chigasaki on a temporary horse-drawn tram to be loaded onto freight trains on the Tōkaidō main line . After almost two years of construction, the line from Chigasaki via Samukawa to Kawasamukawa was opened on September 28, 1921. On May 10, 1922, the Sagami Tetsudō took a branch line from Samukawa to another open pit near Shinomiya in operation. After the Great Kanto earthquake on September 1, 1923, train traffic was interrupted for about a month.

The Sagami Tetsudō extended the route in several stages: on April 1, 1926 from Samukawa to Kurami, on July 15, 1926 from Kurami to Atsugi and on April 29, 1931 from Atsugi to Hashimoto . On the other hand, on November 1, 1931, it closed the branch line from Samukawa to Kawasamukawa. In November 1935, the first diesel-electric railcar in Japan was used on the Sagami Line , and on January 15, 1936, individual trains ran for the first time on the Yokohama Line to Hachiōji . During the Pacific War , the Sagami Tetsudō carried out goods transports on the branch route to Shinomiya, where a food factory was located, on behalf of the Imperial Japanese Navy . In order to rationalize the war-essential freight traffic, the Ministry of Railways nationalized the Sagami line. It compensated the company with 3.9 million yen and carried out the operation itself from June 1, 1944. At the same time, it shortened the Shinomiya branch line by half a kilometer so that it only reached as far as Nishi-Samukawa.

The Japanese State Railways , which was responsible from 1949, stopped passenger traffic on the branch line to Nishi-Samukawa on October 1, 1954, but resumed it on November 15, 1960. After the mining of gravel on Sagami was banned in 1964, the volume of goods traffic decreased significantly. The last passenger trains pulled by steam locomotives ran in the summer of 1965, and freight traffic was also completely switched to diesel operation on March 25, 1965. Since the Sagami line ran through a comparatively sparsely populated area at the time and generated great losses, it was threatened with closure at the beginning of the 1970s. However, this could be averted, as the western suburbs of Yokohama began to expand into the Sagami Valley and thus a greater demand arose.

For reasons of rationalization, the state railway closed the branch line from Samukawa to Nishi-Samukawa on March 31, 1984 for both freight and passenger traffic. As part of the privatization of the state railway, the Sagami line went into the possession of the new company JR East on April 1, 1987 , while JR Freight was now responsible for freight traffic. On March 16, 1991, the entire line was electrified. Due to a large-scale power outage after the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 , operations were suspended for two weeks, as the Sagami line, unlike other routes, did not have its own substation at the time and was dependent on the power supply from Tepco .

List of train stations

Surname	km	Connecting lines	location	place
Chigasaki ( 茅 ケ 崎 )	00.0	Tōkaidō main line Shōnan-Shinjuku line	Coord.	Chigasaki
Kita-Chigasaki ( 北 茅 ケ 崎 )	01.3		Coord.
Kagawa ( 香 川 )	03.4		Coord.
Samukawa ( 寒 川 )	05.1		Coord.	Samukawa
Miyayama ( 宮 山 )	07.2		Coord.
Kurami ( 倉 見 )	08.6		Coord.
Kadosawabashi ( 門 沢 橋 )	10.0		Coord.	Ebina
Shake ( 社 家 )	11.6		Coord.
Atsugi ( 厚 木 )	14.2	Odakyū Odawara line	Coord.
Ebina ( 海 老 名 )	15.9	Odakyū Odawara Line Sōtetsu Main Line	Coord.
Iriya ( 入 谷 )	18.9		Coord.	Zama
Sōbudaishita ( 相 武 台下 )	20.6		Coord.	Sagamihara
Shimomizo ( 下 溝 )	23.5		Coord.
Harataima ( 原 当 麻 )	24.8		Coord.
Banda ( 番 田 )	26.9		Coord.
Kamimizo ( 上 溝 )	28.4		Coord.
Minami Hashimoto ( 南橋 本 )	31.3		Coord.
Hashimoto ( 橋本 )	33.3	Yokohama Line Keiō Sagamihara Line	Coord.

Web links

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

• Information on the Sagami Line (Japanese)
• JR East route network (PDF, 1.2 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ JR 新 幹線 ＆ 特急 列車 フ ァ イ ル . Kōtsū Shimbun, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-330-00608-6 , pp. 30-32 .
2. ↑ 相 鉄 70 年 史 . Sagami Tetsudō, Yokohama 1987, p. 17 .
3. ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , May 22, 1922, accessed July 6, 2019 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ ^{a b c} 相 模 線 の 沿革. Go! Go! Sagami-sen, 2019, accessed July 6, 2019 (Japanese). 
5. ^ Public Notices No. 571 and 572, Japanese State Railways , November 12, 1960.
6. ↑ Public Notices No. 215 and 216, Japanese State Railways , March 22, 1960.
7. ↑ ＪＲ 相 模 線 、 １０ 日 連 続 運 休… 自 前 変 電 所 な し. Yomiuri Shimbun , March 24, 2011, archived from the original on March 26, 2011 ; accessed on July 6, 2019 . 

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