Shonan tram
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| Route length: | 10.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 762 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Shōnan tram ( Japanese 湘南 軌道 , Shōnan kidō ) was a narrow-gauge overland tram on the Japanese island of Honshū . In Kanagawa Prefecture , she associated Ninomiya with Hadano . The track was 10.0 km long and had a gauge of 762 mm. The railway was named after the Shōnan region and was in operation from 1906 to 1937.
history
On August 1, 1906, the Shōnan Basha Tetsudō ( 湘南 馬車 鉄 道 , "Shōnan horse-drawn tram") opened a nine-kilometer horse-drawn tram from Ninomiya to Daimachi. In addition to passenger transport, the transport of tobacco , which was grown in the Hadano region and loaded onto freight trains of the Tōkaidō main line in Ninomiya, was of great importance . Due to the increasing number of passengers, the switch to steam operation took place on February 1, 1913. According to the new type of traction , the company changed its name to Shōnan Keiben Tetsudō ( 湘南 軽 便 鉄 道 , "Shōnan-Kleinbahn") on February 24, 1913 . In 1918 the railway was temporarily out of service due to management problems and the company renamed itself after a restructuring in Shōnan Kidō ("Shōnan tram").
The Great Kanto earthquake caused damage to the route on September 1, 1923. In March 1924 it was extended a few hundred meters from Daimachi to Hadano city center. When the railway company Odakyū Dentetsu opened the electric Odawara line in 1927 , the tram lost most of its passenger volume, as the city of Hadano was now directly accessible from Tokyo and Odawara and the detour via Ninomiya could be omitted. Passenger traffic was stopped in 1933, freight traffic on October 9, 1935. The official shutdown took place on August 25, 1937.
List of stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
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| Ninomiya ( 二 宮 ) | 0.0 | Main Tōkaidō line | Coord. | Ninomiya |
| Nakazato ( 中 里 ) | 1.4 | Coord. | ||
| Ishiki ( 一色 ) | 2.8 | Coord. | ||
| Shimo-Inokuchi ( 下井 ノ 口 ) | 4.5 | Coord. | Nakai | |
| Kami-Inokuchi ( 上 井 ノ 口 ) | 6.0 | Coord. | ||
| Ōdake ( 大竹 ) | 7.9 | Coord. | Hadano | |
| Daimachi ( 台 町 ) | 9.2 | Coord. | ||
| Hadano ( 秦 野 ) | 10.0 | Coord. |
literature
- Keisuke Imao: 日本 鉄 道 旅行 地 図 帳 (Japan Rail Travel Atlas ) . tape 4 Kantō. Shinchosha, Tokyo 2008, ISBN 978-4-10-790022-7 .
- Kōji Watanabe: 湘南 軽 便 メ モ ワ ー ル . Tōkyō Tosho Shuppan, Tokyo 2012, ISBN 978-4-86223-561-9 .