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Kurihara Den'en Railway
The was a rural rail line in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, abandoned on March 31, 2007. Running from Ishikoshi Station in Tome, Miyagi with a connection to the TÅhoku Main Line, extending westward to inland Hosokura Mine Park Mae Station in Kurihara, Miyagi, Kurihara, along central Kurihara. This line used to be called for short because the preceding name of the operator was the . The line was initially constructed to transport ore from Uguisuzawa's which was closed in 1988. Description As of 2007 *Distance: *Rail gauge: *Stations: 16 *Track: Single *Power: Internal combustion (Diesel) *Block System: **Staff Block (Ishikoshi - Wakayanagi, Kurikoma - Hosokura Mine Park Mae) **Tablet Block (Wakayanagi - Kurikoma) Infrastructure The operator introduced diesel multiple units (DMU) during the reorganization in 1995, but the old 750 V DC electric installation remained for economic reasons. It was one of few railways then in Japan that operated with an obsolete Railway semaphore signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Japan Railway Company
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, and next to the Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya Stock Exchange, Nagoya and Osaka Exchange, Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the other being Central Japan Railway Company, JR Central and West Japan Railway Company, JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned Japanese National Railway Settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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