Fukuroi tram
| Fukuroi tram | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 13.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 762 mm / 1067 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 600 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Shizuoka Tetsudo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Fukuroi tram , also known as Akiha Line ( Japanese 秋葉 線 , Akiha-sen ), was a tram line in the Japanese city of Fukuroi ( Shizuoka Prefecture ). Opened as a horse-drawn tram in 1902 , it was electrified in 1925, two years after it was taken over by Shizuoka Tetsudō . The operation, which was closed in 1962, comprised a 12.1 km long main line in a south-north direction through the city center and a 1.1 km long branch line.
history
In 1902 the local railway company Akiha Basha Tetsudō ( 秋葉 馬車 鉄 道 ) was founded. This opened on December 28 of the same year a horse-drawn tram line from Fukuroi station on the Tōkaidō main line to Enshū-Morimachi. The track width of the line was 762 mm at the beginning. In addition to people, the horse-drawn tram also transported agricultural goods such as tea leaves and fruit from the villages of Shūchi County .
On December 28, 1911, the branch line to Kasui was opened. Thus, visitors and pilgrims could get directly to the Kasui-sai, an important Buddhist temple of the Sōtō-shū school. Due to the economic boom during the First World War , the horse-drawn tram reached its capacity limits and the railway company planned to electrify it. As a result of the post-war recession, however, the financial means were lacking, which is why the Akina Basha Tetsudō on March 12, 1923 by the Shizuoka Tetsudō (Shizutetsu) was taken over.
The new owner took 1925 Umspurung to 1067 mm ( Cape gauge ) before and led on December 25, 1926 the electrical enterprise. The Tōnankai earthquake on December 7, 1944 caused severe damage. Operation on the Kasui branch was then suspended and formally closed on January 31, 1945. After the end of the war, the number of users of the tram was highest, but this fell sharply in the 1950s as a result of mass motorization . Finally, the Shizutetsu also closed the main line on September 20, 1962 and replaced it with a bus line.
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 .
- Toshio Kawashima: 静岡 鉄 道 秋葉 線 も の が た り - 時代 に 翻弄 さ れ て 消 え て 行 っ た 小 さ な 電車 の 話 - . In: Tetsudō Fan . No. 485 . Koyusha, Naha September 2001, pp. 96-105 .