Temiya line
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| Route length: | 2.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Temiya line ( jap . 手宮線 , Temiya-sen ) was a railway line on the Japanese island of Hokkaido . It existed from 1880 to 1985 and ran from Minami-Otaru train station to the port within the city of Otaru . The length of the Cape-lane route was 2.8 km (now 3.5 km). The Temiya terminus is now part of a railway museum.
history
From January 1880, the state railway company Horonai Tetsudō built the Temiya line and carried out the first test run on October 24, 1880. The official opening followed five weeks later, on November 28, 1880. The Temiya Line was the westernmost part of the oldest railway line Hokkaidōs, which continued to Sapporo and the coal field around Iwamizawa . From December 11, 1889, the private mining and railway company Hokkaidō Tankō Tetsudō was responsible. This extended the Temiya line on November 6, 1893 by around 700 meters to the pier and set up the Sanbashi freight station there , but already closed the extension on November 6, 1901. From October 1, 1906, the line was again in state ownership.
The now responsible Railway Authority (later the Ministry of Railways ) expanded the Temiya line to two-track in May 1910. All passenger traffic was suspended from July 1907 to August 1912, as was the case from October 1943 to November 1948. The entire length of the second track was removed in November 1943. The Japanese State Railways finally stopped passenger traffic on May 14, 1962, and freight traffic was discontinued on November 5, 1985. About half of the route including tracks and signals has been preserved in good condition and is owned by the city. The former depot at the Temiya terminus has been the location of a railway museum since 2007, in which an important collection of locomotives and other vehicles is exhibited.
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Remarks | location | place |
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| Minami-Otaru ( 南 小樽 ) | 0.0 | Connection to the Hakodate main line | Coord. | Otaru |
| Ironai ( 色 内 ) | 1.1 | in operation from 1912 to 1962 | Coord. | |
| Temiya ( 手 宮 ) | 2.8 | Re-use of the depot by the railway museum | Coord. | |
| Sanbashi ( 桟 橋 ) | 3.5 | in operation from 1893 to 1901 | Coord. |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JNR General Directorate Hokkaidō (Ed.): 北海道 鉄 道 百年 史 (100 years of Hokkaidō railway history). Sapporo 1980, p. 59.
- ↑ Kazuo Tanaka: 写真 で 見 る 北海道 の 鉄 道 (Hokkaidō's railroad in photos) . tape 1 . Hokkaidō Shinbunsha, Sapporo 2002, ISBN 978-4-89453-220-5 , pp. 36-37 .
- ↑ 気 笛 一声 〝明治〟 去 る 国 鉄 手 宮 線 で さ よ な ら 列車. Hokkaidō Shimbun, November 4, 1985.
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