Seibu Tamako Line

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The line is part of the Seibu Shinjuku group of railway lines that connects suburban areas of western Tokyo to Seibu and JR East main lines that extend to central Tokyo. The line is named after the Script error: No such module "Nihongo"., a major reservoir supplying water to Tokyo, located close to the terminus of the line at Template:STN. Since July 2008, recorded announcements on trains have been provided in English in addition to Japanese and, as part of Seibu Railway's ongoing refurbishment programme, signage and maps at stations are also bilingual.

Stations

No. Name Japanese Distance
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Template:SBSN Template:STN 国分寺 0.0 File:SeibuKokubunji.svg Seibu Kokubunji Line
Template:JRLS Chūō Line (Rapid)
Kokubunji, Tokyo
Template:SBSN Template:STN 一橋学園 2.4   Kodaira, Tokyo
Template:SBSN Template:STN 青梅街道 3.4
Template:SBSN Template:STN 萩山 4.6 File:SeibuShinjuku.svg Seibu Haijima Line Higashimurayama, Tokyo
Template:SBSN Template:STN 八坂 5.6  
Template:SBSN Template:STN 武蔵大和 8.1
Template:SBSN Template:STN 多摩湖 9.2 File:SeibuYamaguchi.svg Seibu Yamaguchi Line

Operation

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Connections

This line connects the suburban Seibu lines with the JR Chūō line at Kokubunji. At Hagiyama, there is transfer to the Seibu Haijima Line. The Seibu Yamaguchi Line, also known as the Leo Liner, connects Tamako Station with Seibuen Amusement park and the Seibu Dome, home of the Saitama Seibu Lions baseball team. Ōmekaidō Station is listed as a connection to services on the JR Musashino Line at Shin-Kodaira Station, a short walk away.

The Tamako Line also provides access to the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry[2] and the International Campus of Hitotsubashi Gakuen University[3] from Hagiyama and Hitotsubashi-Gakuen stations respectively.

History

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A Tamako Railway train at Kokubunji Station in 1937

The Tamako Railway opened the Kokubunji to Hagiyama section in 1928, and extended it to Musashi-Yamato in 1930, electrifying the entire section at 600 V DC at the same time.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". The company was absorbed into the Seibu Railway system on 12 March 1940.[4] In 1961, the line was extended to Seibu-yūenchi (now Tamako), and the voltage increased to 1,500 V DC at the same time.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

9000 series trainsets were deployed on the Tamako Line from 1 October 2020.[5]

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.

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