Sakuma line
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 Bridge over the Akura-gawa
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| Route length: | approx. 35 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sakuma Line ( Japanese 佐 久 間 線 , Sakuma-sen ) is an unfinished railway line on the Japanese island of Honshū . It should be 35 km long and open up the middle Tenryū Valley in Shizuoka Prefecture . After about half of the route was completed, the Japanese State Railways stopped construction.
history
In the annex to the Railway Construction Act passed in 1922, the Sakuma Line was noted as a binding construction project. Since the construction of other routes had priority, the planning was suspended for more than three decades. In April 1957, the survey work began. The line was supposed to branch off from the Futamata line (now Tenryū-Hamanako-Line ) at Tenryū-Futamata station and head north along the Tenryū River to join the Iida-Line after about 35 km in Chūbu-Tenryū . 20 bridges and 14 tunnels were planned in the hilly terrain, the construction costs were estimated at 8.1 billion yen . The construction work, which began on July 12, 1967, progressed very slowly, as funds were scarce in view of the growing debt of the Japanese State Railways . After more than a decade, only about half of the superstructure existed . The construction work was finally stopped on December 10, 1980 and never resumed.
Various embankments, bridges and tunnels had already been completed by this time and are still evidence of the abandoned project. The best-known example is the Aizu tunnel in the rural Tenryū-ku district of Hamamatsu , which is now used as a wine cellar ( location on map ). The then still independent town of Tenryū took over the tunnel in 1994 free of charge from the State Railway Liquidation Company and made it available to a local study group for industrial history. She realized that the conditions there (there are constant temperatures of 16 to 18 ° C with 70 to 80% humidity all year round) are ideal for the environmentally friendly storage of up to 60,000 wine bottles. Since then, the tunnel has been rented to various wine merchants, and tastings are also held regularly.
literature
- Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 7 Tōkai. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790025-8 .
Web links
- Data sheet for the Sakuma line (Japanese)
- Wine cellar in the Aizu tunnel (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 幻 の 鉄 道 ・ 佐 久 間 線 の ト ン ネ ル を 利用 し た ワ イ ン セ ラ ー. Hamamatsu City, October 21, 2014, archived from the original on August 30, 2016 ; Retrieved February 11, 2019 (Japanese).