Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line

Template:Short description Template:Yōrō Line RDT The is a railway line of a Japanese private railway operator . The line traverses the northeastern side of the Yōrō Mountains and connects Kuwana Station in Kuwana, Mie Prefecture and Ibi Station in Ibigawa, Gifu Prefecture.

The northern portion of the Template:STN section is locally and unofficially called the , as Ōgaki is a reversing station.

Kintetsu Railway, one of largest private railway companies in Japan, owns the tracks and rolling stocks of the line whereon Yōrō Railway (a Class II railway),Template:Clarification needed a wholly owned subsidiary of Kintetsu, operated trains until 2018.

Descriptions

• Company: Yōrō Railway (Category-2), Kintetsu Railway (Category-3)
• Length:
• Gauge: Template:RailGauge
• Power: Electric 1500 V DC
• No. of stations: 27 incl. both ends
• Track: single
• Maximum speed:
• Operation: All Local trains

History

Initially steam powered, the line was constructed as a Class 1 railway by Yōrō Railway and opened in 1913 between Template:STN, Template:STN, and Template:STN. In 1919, the present line was completed with extensions from Yōrō to Template:STN and Ikeno to Template:STN. In 1922, Yōrō Railway merged with and the following year the line was electrified (1500 V DC). In 1928, its railway was transferred to . Since then, the operator has changed several times, namely to in 1929, to in 1936, to in 1940, to in 1941, finally to Kintetsu, then known as , in 1944.

Following typhoon damage in 1959, the Kintetsu Nagoya Line was regauged to Template:RailGauge, the Kintetsu standard which enables through trains to Osaka. However, the Yōrō Line remained at Template:RailGauge partly due to through freight trains to the Japanese National Railways (JNR) lines at Ōgaki and Kuwana, as the line provided a shortcut between these stations.

With accumulating deficit, Kintetsu Corporation decided to split off the operation of the Yōrō Line in 2007. Local governments along the line made an agreement of financial aid to the Yōrō Railway until 2010.

Stations

All stations are unattended with the exceptions of Ōgaki, Nishi-Ōgaki, Ibi, Yōrō, Komano, Tado, and Kuwana.

Name	Japanese	Distance (km)		Transfers	Location
		Between stations	Total
Template:STN	桑名	-	0.0	File:JR Central Kansai Line.svg Kansai Main Line (CJ07) File:KT number-E.svg Kintetsu Nagoya Line (E13) Sangi Railway Hokusei Line (Template:STN)	Kuwana	Mie
Template:STN	播磨	0.9	1.6
Template:STN	下深谷	2.4	4.0
Template:STN	下野代	2.6	6.6
Template:STN	多度	2.0	8.6
Template:STN	美濃松山	3.3	11.9		Kaizu	Gifu
Template:STN	石津	2.3	14.2
Template:STN	美濃山崎	2.0	16.2
Template:STN	駒野	3.6	19.8
Template:STN	美濃津屋	4.7	24.5
Template:STN	養老	4.3	28.8		Yōrō, Yōrō District
Template:STN	美濃高田	3.0	31.8
Template:STN	烏江	2.7	34.5
Template:STN	大外羽	1.5	36.0		Ōgaki
Template:STN	友江	1.4	37.4
Template:STN	美濃青柳	2.0	39.4
Template:STN	西大垣	1.8	41.2
Template:STN	大垣	1.8	43.0	File:JR Central Tokaido Line.svg Tōkaidō Main Line (CA77) ■ Tarumi Railway Tarumi Line (TR01)
Template:STN	室	1.1	44.1
Template:STN	北大垣	1.3	45.4
Template:STN	東赤坂	2.1	47.5		Gōdo, Anpachi District
Template:STN	広神戸	2.8	50.3
Template:STN	北神戸	1.6	51.9
Template:STN	池野	1.6	53.5		Ikeda, Ibi District
Template:STN	北池野	0.9	54.4
Template:STN	美濃本郷	0.8	55.2
Template:STN	揖斐	2.3	57.5		Ibigawa, Ibi District

Connections

At Template:STN

• Kintetsu: Nagoya Line
• Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central): Kansai Main Line

At Template:STN

• JR Central: Tōkaidō Main Line (the main line and the "Mino-Akasaka branch line")
• Tarumi Railway: Tarumi Line

External links

• Template:In lang Official website