Tobu Kinugawa Line
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The Script error: No such module "Nihongo". is a Template:Cvt long Japanese railway line from Shimo-Imaichi Station to Shin-Fujiwara Station in Nikkō, Tochigi. It is owned and operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway.[1]
At Shimo-Imaichi Station it connects with the Tobu Nikko Line. At Shin-Fujiwara Station it connects with the Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line. Some trains go beyond the Aizu Kinugawa Line terminus at Aizu-Kōgen Oze-guchi Station onto the Aizu Railway Aizu Line.
The line runs surcharged, reserved-seat limited express services from and to Asakusa and Shinjuku in Tokyo.
The whole line is electrified at 1,500 V DC, but it is single tracked except for a Template:Cvt double-tracked section at Kinugawa-Onsen Station.
Stations
All stations are located within Nikkō, Tochigi.
| No. | Station | Japanese | Distance (km) | SPACIA | JR | Revaty Aizu |
Revaty Kinu |
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Ozatoro Tenbō Ressha YUMEGURI |
Transfers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Between stations |
Total | ||||||||||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 下今市 | - | 0.0 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | Tobu Nikko Line | |
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 大谷向 | 0.8 | 0.8 | ↕ | ↕ | ◆ | ↕ | ↕ | ||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 大桑 | 4.0 | 4.8 | ↕ | ↕ | ◆ | ▲ | ↕ | ||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 新高徳 | 2.5 | 7.3 | △ | ↕ | ● | ▲ | ↕ | ||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 小佐越 | 2.6 | 9.9 | ↕ | ↕ | ◆ | ▲ | ↕ | ||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 東武ワールドスクウェア | 0.7 | 10.6 | ● | ● | ● | ▲ | ↕ | ||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 鬼怒川温泉 | 1.8 | 12.4 | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | |
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 鬼怒川公園 | 2.1 | 14.5 | △ | ● | ↓ | ||||
| Template:TBSN | Template:STN | 新藤原 | 1.7 | 16.2 | △ | ● | ● | Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line | |||
History
- 1915: Script error: No such module "Nihongo". was licensed to build a Template:RailGauge gauge steam-hauled tramway. It was renamed Script error: No such module "Nihongo". in the same year.
- 2 January 1917: A Script error: No such module "convert". section from Daiya-gawa Hokugan Station to Kinugawa Nangan Station was opened. The line was extended a further Script error: No such module "convert". the same year.
- March 1919: Ōhara Station to Shimotaki Station section was opened.
- October 1919: Daiya Mukō Imaichi Station to Shin-Imaichi Station section was opened.
- 1 January 1920: Shimotaki Station to Fujiwara Station section was open to complete the whole Script error: No such module "convert". line.
- 6 June 1921: The company name was renamed Script error: No such module "Nihongo"..
- 9 March 1922: The whole line was electrified at 600 V DC.
- April 1927: The corporate headquarters was relocated to the Tobu Railway headquarters in Tokyo.
- 22 October 1929: Template:RailGauge gauge operation began on all the line.
- 1931: The voltage was raised to 1,500 V.
- 1 May 1943: Shimotsuke Electric Railway was bought out by Tobu Railway. The line became Tobu Kinugawa Line.
- 9 October 1986: Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line through service began.
- 12 October 1990: Aizu Railway Aizu Line through service to Aizu Tajima Station began.
- 18 March 2006: New Kinugawa services to/from Template:STN commence.[2]
From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Tobu Kinugawa Line stations adopting the prefix "TN" in orange.[3]
A new station, called Tobu World Square Station, opened between Template:STN and Template:STN on 22 July 2017 to serve the nearby Tobu World Square theme park.[4] From this date, Tobu World Square Station was numbered "TN-55", and the station numbers for Template:STN to Template:STN were adjusted on 21 April 2017, ahead of the opening.[4]
Future developments
Steam-hauled services
Tobu has leased former JNR Class C11 steam locomotive C11 207 from JR Hokkaido for use on the 12.4 km section of the Kinugawa Line between Template:STN and Template:STN stations from 10 August 2017.[5] Turntables will also be installed at Template:STN and Template:STN to turn the locomotive in service.[5] A two-stall engine shed is also being constructed for the steam loco at Shimo-Imaichi.
See also
References
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