Tomiuchi line
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| Gauge : | 1067 mm ( cape track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tomiuchi Line ( Japanese 富 内線 , Tomiuchi-sen ) was a railway line in the southeast of the Japanese island of Hokkaidō . It opened in 1922 and was in operation until 1986.
description
The western starting point of the Tomiuchi line was Numanohata from 1922 and Mukawa from 1943 . Both branches of the route met in Toyoshiro, but were never in operation at the same time. In both cases, almost all passenger trains ran beyond the nominal terminus to Tomakomai . From Toyoshiro, the route followed the Mukawa Valley in a north-easterly direction to the eponymous place Tomiuchi. There she turned to the south and reached through the Hifu tunnel the Saru valley near Horokeshi, where she turned again to the northeast and finally ended in Hidakachō. The Tomiuchi Line was 82.5 km long between Mukawa and Hidakachō; it was Cape gauge , single-track and not electrified.
history
On July 24, 1922, the private railway company Hokkaidō Tetsudō opened a railway line between Numanohata and Asahioka after around two years of construction . It was 36.3 km long and was initially called the Kanayama Line ( 金山 線 , Kanayama-sen ). On June 12, 1923, the line was extended by 6.6 km from Asahioka to Sakae, followed by the opening of the Sakae – Tomiuchi section (23.1 km) on November 11, 1923.
During the Pacific War , the Ministry of Railways wanted to bring under its control some strategically important private railways that had been established after the first wave of nationalizations in 1906/07 . This also affected the Hokkaidō Tetsudō, which was nationalized on August 1, 1943. The Ministry of Railways introduced the new name Tomiuchi Line that day. Since the Numanohata – Toyoshiro section ran mostly parallel to the state Hidaka main line , it was shut down on November 1, 1943 and replaced by the 3.6 km long, newly built link to Mukawa .
The Japanese State Railways , which was responsible from 1949, continued the construction of the line, which had been interrupted for around a decade shortly before the end of the war. On November 15, 1958, she took the Tomiuchi – Furenai section (12.9 km) together with the Hifu tunnel into operation. The last section was added on November 5, 1964, Furenai – Hidakachō (24.1 km). According to the appendix of the revised Railway Construction Act of 1922, the line should have been extended to Kanayama, where there would have been a connection to the Nemuro Main Line .
The once important freight transport (especially timber and ore transports) decreased significantly due to the expansion of the road network and was completely discontinued on November 15, 1982. Almost four years later, on November 1, 1986, the state railway shut down the entire Tomiuchi line for passenger traffic. Thereupon a bus line of the Donan Bus company took over the development.
List of train stations
| Surname | km | Connecting lines | location | place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section Mukawa – Hidakachō | ||||
| Mukawa ( 鵡 川 ) | 0.0 | Hidaka main line | Coord. | Mukawa |
| Toyoshiro ( 豊 城 ) | 3.6 | Coord. | ||
| Kasuga ( 春日 ) | 7.8 | Coord. | ||
| Barosawa ( 芭呂 沢 ) | 13.1 | Coord. | ||
| Asahioka ( 旭 岡 ) | 15.8 | Coord. | ||
| Sakae ( 栄 ) | 22.4 | Coord. | ||
| Toyota ( 豊 田 ) | 31.0 | Coord. | ||
| Hobetsu ( 穂 別 ) | 37.3 | Coord. | ||
| Hukaushi ( 深 牛 ) | 42.4 | |||
| Tomiuchi ( 富 内 ) | 45.5 | Coord. | ||
| Horokeshi ( 幌 毛志 ) | 55.0 | Coord. | Biratori | |
| Furenai ( 振 内 ) | 58.4 | Coord. | ||
| Niseu ( 仁 世 宇 ) | 61.2 | Coord. | ||
| Iwachishi ( 岩 知 志 ) | 68.6 | Coord. | ||
| Hidaka-Iwanai ( 日 高 岩 内 ) | 73.4 | Coord. | Hidaka | |
| Hidaka-Mitsuoka ( 日 高三 岡 ) | 78.1 | Coord. | ||
| Hidakachō ( 日 高 町 ) | 82.5 | Coord. | ||
| Numanohata – Toyoshiro section | ||||
| Numanohata ( 沼 ノ 端 ) | 0.0 |
Chitose Line Muroran Main Line |
Coord. | Tomakomai |
| Kita-Matsuda ( 北 松田 ) | 4.8 | |||
| Shizukawa ( 静 川 ) | 8.6 | |||
| Kami-Atsuma ( 上 厚 真 ) | 13.7 | Atsuma | ||
| Irishikabetsu ( 入 鹿 別 ) | 19.7 | Mukawa | ||
| Toyoshiro ( 豊 城 ) | 24.1 | |||
Individual evidence
- ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library , July 28, 1922; accessed November 10, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ 地方 鉄 道 運輸 開始. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library, November 20, 1923; accessed November 10, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 204 号. In: Official Gazette. National Parliamentary Library, July 26, 1943, accessed November 10, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ 鉄 道 省 告示 第 299 号. In: Official Gazette. National Library of Parliament, October 6, 1943; accessed November 10, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ 日 勝 線 の 一部 富 内 か ら 振 内 間 （13 キ ロ） 18 年 ぶ り で 開通. Hokkaidō Shimbun, November 16, 1958.
- ↑ 31 日 廃 止 の 富 内 、 胆 振 線, Hokkaidō Shimbun, October 31, 1986.
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