Kabe Line
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Route data
- Operator: West Japan Railway Company (Class-1 railroad)
- Official line length: Script error: No such module "convert".
- Gauge: Template:RailGauge
- Double track: none (entirely single track)
- Electrified sections: entire line (1500 VDC)
- Safeworking system:
- special automatic occlusive (track circuit detection type)
History
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Private railway
The section now in operation of the Kabe Line was originally constructed by a private company and later purchased by Japanese Government Railways.
The section was opened by Dainippon Kidō in four phases.
- 19 December 1909: Yokogawa Station to Gion Station
- 19 November 1910: Gion Station to Furuichibashi Station
- 25 December 1910: Furuichibashi Station to Ōtagawabashi Station
- 12 June 1911: Ōtagwabashi Station to Kabe Station
The line was handed over to Kabe Kidō on 11 March 1919. Kabe Kidō was merged to Hiroshima Denki Kidō on 1 May 1926.
The line was originally built to Template:RailGauge gauge and not electrified. The line was electrified and re-gauged (to the national standard of Template:RailGauge) in the following steps.
- 9 November 1928: Yokogawa – Furuichibashi section. Bus service temporary replaces rest of the line. Matsubara Station closes and Taishi Station opens.
- 10 August 1929: Furuichibashi – Template:STN section.
- 2 December 1929: Ōtagawabashi – Kabe section.
The line was handed over to the Kōhin Railway on 1 July 1931. On 1 December 1935, the line's legal status was changed from light railway to railway.
After nationalization
The line was nationalized on 1 September 1936, and became a part of Japanese Government Railways as the Kabe Line. Simultaneously, some station names were changed as follows:
- Oshibakoenguchi Station to Mitaki Station
- Nagatsuka Station to Aki-Nagatsuka Station
- Ōtagawabashi Station to Kami-Yagi Station
- Nakashima Station to Aki-Nakashima Station
- Kōhin-Kabe Station to Kabe Station
The line voltage was raised from 750 V to 1,500 V (JNR standard) on 23 April 1962.
Since 4 September 1968, the line had been on the government's list of deficit-ridden railways where service was to be discontinued.
After JR West took over the line in 1987, wanman driver-only operation was introduced on the Kabe – Sandankyō section.
Beginning in summer 2007, the ICOCA card can be used in all stations in the Hiroshima City Network, including all stations on the Kabe Line.
On 4 February 2011, it was announced that a Script error: No such module "convert". section of the abandoned segment, between Kabe Station and the former Kōdo Station, would be electrified and reopened. This will be the first such reopening by a JR Group company since the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR).[4] Operation was scheduled to resume from fiscal 2015;[5] the two new stations at Template:STN and Template:STN finally opened on 4 March 2017.[6]
Discontinued/suspended section
JGR extended the line beyond Kabe Station. The extended sections were not electrified.
- 13 October 1936: Extension to Aki-Imuro Station completed
- 30 March 1954: Extension to Kake Station completed (on completion of this extension, the total length of Japanese National Railways exceeded Script error: No such module "convert"..)
- 27 July 1969: Extension to Sandankyō Station, Script error: No such module "convert". from Yokogawa, completed
The line was intended to be extended to Hamada station on the Sanin Main Line, and construction on that section commenced in 1974, before being abandoned in 1980.
The Kabe – Sandankyō section was closed on 1 December 2003.[7]
- Operator: West Japan Railway Company (Class-1 railroad)
- Official line length: Script error: No such module "convert".
- Gauge: Template:RailGauge
- Double track: none (entirely single track)
- Electrified sections: none
- Closure system:
- section between Kabe Station and Kake Station: Special automatic closure type
- section between Kake Station and Sandankyō Station: Staff closure type
Stations
Trains can pass at stations marked "||", "◇", "∨", and "∧". Trains cannot pass at stations marked "|".
| No. | Station | Japanese | Distance (km) |
Transfers | Tracks | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanyō Main Line | ||||||
| Template:RouteBox | Hiroshima | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Sanyō Shinkansen, Kure Line, Geibi Line, Hiroden Main Line | || | Minami | |
| Template:RouteBox | Shin-Hakushima | Script error: No such module "Lang". | Astram Line | || | Naka | |
| Kabe Line | ||||||
| Template:RouteBox | Yokogawa | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 0.0 | Sanyō Main Line, Hiroden Yokogawa Line | ∨ | Nishi |
| Template:RouteBox | Mitaki | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1.1 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Aki-Nagatsuka | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2.6 | ◇ | Asaminami | |
| Template:RouteBox | Shimo-Gion | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 3.9 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Furuichibashi | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 5.3 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Ōmachi | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 6.5 | Astram Line | | | |
| Template:RouteBox | Midorii | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 7.3 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Shichikenjaya | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 8.0 | | | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Bairin | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 9.6 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Kami-Yagi | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 11.2 | | | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Nakashima | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 12.6 | | | Asakita | |
| Template:RouteBox | Kabe | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 14.0 | ◇ | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Template:STN | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 14.8 | | | ||
| Template:RouteBox | Template:STN | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 15.6 | ∧ | ||
Rolling stock
New 2- and 3-car 227 series electric trains were introduced on the Kabe Line from around 2015,[6] replacing older 115 series trains.[8] By 2019, all Kabe Line services were operated by 227 series trains.[6]
References
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