Numazu tram
| Numazu tram | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 5.9 km / 6.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 600 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 33.3 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Izuhakone Tetsudō | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The tram Numazu was a tram line in the Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka , which between cities Numazu and Mishima wrong. It was built in 1906 by the Sunzu Denki electricity company , which later became part of the regional Izuhakone Tetsudō railway company . The tram was in operation until 1963. Its official name was Izuhakone Tetsudō kidō-sen ( 伊豆 箱根 鉄 道 軌道 線 , "tram line of Izuhakone Tetsudō").
route
The western starting point of the tram line was the forecourt of Numazu Station , an important railway junction on the Tōkaidō main line . The route initially led south into the center of Numazu and turned east there. After crossing the Kise-gawa River, she turned to the northeast. Shortly after passing the city limits to Mishima , she reached the eastern terminus in front of the Mishima-Hirokōji stop on the Sunzu line . There was a track connection to this railway line from 1919 to 1959. The line with a gauge of 1067 mm ( Cape gauge ) was 5.9 km long, until 1915 it continued around 700 m to Mishima-Tamachi station. Right from the start, it was electrified with 600 V DC .
history
Established in 1896, Sunzu Denki ( 駿 電 気 ) Electric Company , the first in Shizuoka Prefecture , decided to expand its business in 1905. The unused surplus of generated electrical energy should be used to operate a tram in order to generate another source of income. Accordingly, the company changed its name in 1906 to Sunzu Denki Tetsudō ( 駿 豆 電 気 鉄 道 , "Sunzu Electric Railway"). On November 28, 1906 of the same year, the tram line between Numazu Station and Mishima-Hirokōji went into operation. On August 3, 1908, the extension to Mishima-Tamachi followed.
In 1912, the Sunzu Denki Tetsudō acquired the Izu Tetsudō railway company , the previous operator of the Sunzu line . So there were two lines of the same company in Mishima. This parallel tour ended on January 18, 1915 with the shutdown of the tram section opened six and a half years earlier, with which Mishima-Hirokōji was again the eastern terminus. In 1916, the Sunzu Denki Tetsudō merged with the Fuji electricity company, which transferred the rail lines to the new subsidiary Sunzu Tetsudō (this has been called Izuhakone Tetsudō since 1957 ). With the electrification of the Sunzu line and the commissioning of a track connection at Mishima-Hirokōji, it was again possible from May 25, 1919 to offer continuous connections from Numazu to Mishima-Tamachi.
From April 1, 1949, the connecting track at Mishima-Hirokōji was only used for trips to the depot north of Mishima-Tamachi. After the catenary voltage on the Sunzu line was increased from 600 V to 1500 V on September 7, 1959, this possibility was omitted, which is why the Izuhakone Tetsudō opened a new depot near the Kokuritsu Byōin-mae station. A devastating flood destroyed the bridge over the Kise-gawa on June 28, 1961. Reconstruction did not seem sensible, which is why there were only buses to the west of the river. Finally, on February 5, 1963, the Izuhakone Tetsudō also shut down the remaining section between the depot and Mishima-Hirokōji.
literature
- Takayuki Haraguchi: 日本 の 路面 電車 〈2〉 廃 止 路線 ・ 東 日本 編 . JTB Publishing, Tokyo 2000, ISBN 978-4-533-03459-6 .
Web links
- History of Numazu Tram with Photos (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 駿 豆 線 の 前 史 豆 相 鉄 道 、 駿 豆 電 気 鉄 道 （1893 ～ 1916 年 ま で）. Izuhakone Tetsudō, accessed November 11, 2018 (Japanese).