Hōjō Line
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Basic data
- Distance: 13.6 km / 8.5 mi.
- Gauge: 1,067 mm / 3 ft. 6 in.
- Stations: 8
- Double-track line: None
- Electric supply: Not electrified
- Railway signalling: Staff token
History
The Script error: No such module "Nihongo". opened the line in 1915. The railway was acquired by the Script error: No such module "Nihongo". in 1923 and nationalised in 1943 together with other Bantan Railway lines, i.e. the Kakogawa Line, the Takasago Line, the Miki Line and the Kajiya Line.[1]
Freight services ceased in 1974, and in 1985 the Hojo Railway Company commenced operating the line.
Accidents
On 31 March 1945 a Kawanishi N1K fighter on a test flight made an emergency landing near Abiki that damaged the line resulting in a derailment that killed 11 and injured 104 passengers.
Stations
| Station name | in Japanese | Distance (km) |
Connecting lines | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ao | 粟生 | 0.0 | JR West: Kakogawa Line Kobe Electric Railway: Ao Line |
Ono | Hyōgo |
| Abiki | 網引 | 3.5 | Kasai | ||
| Tahara | 田原 | 4.6 | |||
| Hokkeguchi | 法華口 | 6.1 | |||
| Harima-Shimosato | 播磨下里 | 8.0 | |||
| Osa | 長 | 9.8 | |||
| Harima-Yokota | 播磨横田 | 11.4 | |||
| Hōjōmachi | 北条町 | 13.6 | |||
See also
References
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This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia
External links
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