Taguchi line
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| Route length: | 22.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 1500 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 33 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 160 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Society: | Toyohashi Tetsudo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Taguchi Line ( Japanese 田 口 線 , Taguchi-sen ) was a railway line on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . In the east of Aichi Prefecture , it connected the cities of Shinshiro and Taguchi (now part of Shitara ). It was in operation from 1929 to 1968.
description
The Taguchi line was a 22.6 km long branch line with a gauge of 1067 mm ( Cape gauge ). It branched off the Iida line at Hon-Nagashino station and ran through the Ebi and Toyokawa valleys to Mikawa-Taguchi. The line was electrified with 1500 V DC and opened up 13 train stations and stops.
history
On November 6, 1927, the Taguchi Tetsudō ( 田 口 鉄 道 ) railway company was founded , which acquired the right to transport wood from the Imperial Court Ministry . It opened the route in several stages: on May 22, 1929 from Hon-Nagashino to Mikawa-Ebi, on December 10, 1930 to Kiyosaki and on December 22, 1932 to Mikawa-Taguchi. Although the line was originally designed as a pure forest railway , the trains also carried passengers from the start. The northern terminus was about four kilometers from Taguchi's city center, as otherwise the route would have had to deal with a steep incline and the smoothest possible timber transport had priority.
In 1936 Taguchi Tetsudō came under the control of Nagoya Tetsudō (parent company of the Meitetsu Group ), as did the neighboring railways Toyokawa Tetsudō and Hōraiji Tetsudō . In contrast to these, the Taguchi Tetsudō was not affected by nationalization in 1943, but the Ministry of Railways ran the train (from 1949 the Japanese State Railways ). After the state railway had withdrawn in 1952, the Taguchi line went on October 1, 1956 in the possession of Toyohashi Tetsudō , another subsidiary of the Meitetsu Group.
The section between Kiyosaki and Mikawa-Taguchi was closed in 1966. Three days after a flood had washed away a section of the route, the rest of the Taguchi line was shut down on September 1, 1968. A significant part of the route has been preserved and is used as a road. The 1,511 m long Iname tunnel between the Ebi and Toyokawa valleys, at that time the longest tunnel in Aichi Prefecture, was used as a single-lane bus for over a decade after it was closed. In the course of the expansion of the 389 prefecture road, it was expanded to two lanes and opened for general road traffic in 1979.
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
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| Hon-Nagashino ( 本 長 篠 ) | 0.0 | Iida line | Coord. | Shinshiro |
| Mikawa-Ōkusa ( 三河 大 草 ) | 2.6 | Coord. | ||
| Hōraiji ( 鳳 来 寺 ) | 4.8 | Coord. | ||
| Kuroze ( 玖 老 勢 ) | 7.5 | Coord. | ||
| Mikawa-Ōishi ( 三河 大石 ) | 9.1 | Coord. | ||
| Mikawa-Ebi ( 三 河海 老 ) | 11.6 | Coord. | ||
| Takiue ( 三 河海 老 ) | 12.8 | Coord. | Shitara | |
| Damine ( 田 峯 ) | 15.4 | Coord. | ||
| Nagaramae ( 長 原 前 ) | 17.0 | Coord. | ||
| Kiyosaki ( 清崎 ) | 18.1 | Coord. | ||
| Ayubuchi ( 鮎 淵 ) | ||||
| Mikawa-Taguchi ( 三 河田 口 ) | 22.6 | Coord. |
literature
- Yoshikazu Shirai: 豊 橋 鉄 道 . In: Tetsudō Pikutoriaru . Denkisha kenkyūkai, Chiyoda March 1962, p. 54-62, 106-107 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 地方 鉄 道 及 軌道 一 覧: 附 ・ 専 用 鉄 道. 昭和 10 年 4 月 1 日 現在. National Parliamentary Library , April 1, 1935, accessed April 28, 2019 (Japanese).
- ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library, December 27, 1932, accessed April 28, 2019 (Japanese).
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