Sun'en line
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| Route length: | 68.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 762 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Shizuoka Tetsudo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sun'en Line ( Japanese ( 駿 遠 線 ), Sun'en-sen ) was an overland tram on the Japanese island of Honshū with a gauge of 762 mm. In Shizuoka Prefecture , she linked Fujieda with Omaezaki and Fukuroi . It was created from 1913 by the railway companies Tōsō Tetsudō and Chūen Tetsudō , which both went up in 1943 in the Shizuoka Tetsudō . At no time were all sections in operation at the same time, so that the maximum operating length was 63.7 km. A continuous connection from Fujieda to Fukuroi only existed from 1948 to 1964. At that time, the Sun'en line was the longest tram line in the country. It was gradually shut down until 1970.
description
The north-eastern starting point was in Okabe, now a district of Fujieda . The line initially leads in a south-westerly direction through the city center and passed Fujieda station on a bridge over the Tōkaidō main line . We continued south through the western part of Yaizu and across the Ōi River to Yoshida . Then the route followed the coast of Suruga Bay to get to Omaezaki via Makinohara . In the center of Omaezaki, the line turned west, initially running parallel to the Enshū coast and finally northwest to Fukuroi station . There she met again on the Tōkaidō main line, as well as changing there to the Akiba line .
After the closure, a large part of the previous route was converted into a cycle path , while other sections are now secondary roads with little traffic. The roughly one hundred meter long Kozutsumiyama tunnel in Sagara, a district of Makinohara, is also open to bicycle traffic. Only the pillars on both banks of the bridge over the Ōi have been preserved.
history
On November 15, 1911, the railway company Tōsō Tetsudō ( 藤 相 鉄 道 ) was founded. This opened on November 16, 1913 a steam tram from Ōte to Shin-Fujieda (right next to Fujieda station ), followed by the section to Ōigawa September 3, 1914. The construction of the adjoining bridge over the river Ōi was delayed, which is why on the south bank for an island operation existed for several months : from May 1, 1915 from Ōhata to Hosoe and from September 18 of the same year on to Haibara-chō. The bridge was completed in November 1915, but only received a provisional operating license as a manually operated railway . For this reason, the locomotives had to be uncoupled before the bridge ends and the wagons pushed over; continuous steam operation was not possible until April 4, 1924. At the southern end of the route, two extensions were added: from Haibara-chō to Sagara on June 16, 1918 and from Sagara to Jitōgata on April 27, 1926. In the north, the Tōsō Tetsudō opened the section from Ōte to Suruga-Okabe on January 16, 1925, but already shut it down on May 19, 1936.
The founding of the railway company Chūen Tetsudō ( 中遠 鉄 道 ) took place on August 28, 1912. From Shin-Fukuroi (next to the Fukuroi station ) the first steam tram section opened on January 12, 1914 led to Shin-Yokosuka. The route was extended in two stages, on April 7, 1925 from Shin-Yokosuka to Minami-Ōsaka and on April 1, 1927 from Minami-Ōsaka to Shin-Matsumata. There was a gap of more than twenty kilometers between the southern ends of the Tōsō Tetsudō and Chūen Tetsudō . Both companies gradually replaced their steam locomotives with diesel multiple units (for passenger transport) and diesel locomotives (for freight transport).
During the Pacific War, the government forced numerous small private railways to merge into larger companies to improve efficiency. The Tōsō Tetsudō and Chūen Tetsudō lost their independence and went on May 15, 1943 in the Shizuoka Tetsudō . After the end of the war, numerous city dwellers used the railway lines for hamster rides , so that they were temporarily overloaded. Since both routes were compatible with each other, the new owner decided to connect them together. The gap was closed in two stages: on January 20, 1948 from Shin-Matsumata to Hamaoka-chō and on September 6, 1948 from Jitōgata to Hamaoka-chō. The continuous route was then called the Sun'en Line.
The mass motorization that began in the 1950s in the wake of the Japanese economic miracle led to a drastic loss of importance for the Sun'en Line, especially since a trip on the entire route took more than three and a half hours. On June 11, 1959, the Shizuoka Tetsudō stopped the unprofitable freight traffic. A modernization of the route would have been urgently necessary, but it was not financially worthwhile. That is why it was gradually shut down. The beginning was made on September 27, 1964 with the sections –te-Shin-Fuji and Hirono-Shinden-Shin-Mitsumata. This was followed by the sections Shin-Fukuroi-Shin-Mitsumata on August 28, 1967 and Ōigawa-Hirono-Shinden on August 22, 1968. On the last remaining section Shin-Fujieda-Ōigawa trams operated until August 1, 1970.
photos
Former stop Igooka (2013)
Cycle path at the Ochii stop (2006)
Class B15 tank locomotive in the Fujieda City Museum (2018)
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 .
- Akira Agata: 軽 便 の 思 い 出 - 日本 一 の 軽 便 鉄 道 ・ 静岡 鉄 道 駿 遠 線 . Shizuoka Shimbun, Shizuoka 2005, ISBN 4-7838-9628-3 .
Web links
- Photos of the previous route, with route maps (Japanese)
- Photos from the 1960s (Japanese)