is a railway line in

Nagasaki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Nagasaki Prefecture has a population of 1,314,078 (1 June 2020) and has a geographic area of 4,130 Square kilometre, km2 (1,594 sq mi). Nagasaki Prefecture borders ...

, Japan, operated by the

Kyushu Railway Company The , also referred to as , is one of the seven constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It operates intercity rail services within Kyushu, Japan and the JR Kyushu Jet Ferry Beetle hydrofoil service across the Tsushima Strait ...

(JR Kyushu). It connects

Haiki Station is a railway station located in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is the junction of the Sasebo and Ōmura Lines. Lines The station is served by the Sasebo Line and is located 39.9 km from the starting p ...

Sasebo is a core city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is also the second largest city in Nagasaki Prefecture, after its capital, Nagasaki. On 1 June 2019, the city had an estimated population of 247,739 and a population density of 581 persons p ...

Isahaya Station is a railway station in Eishō-chō, Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan. It is owned by Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu), and is the junction between three lines: the Nagasaki Main Line, Ōmura Line and the private Shimabara Railway Line. Lines The ...

Isahaya is a city located in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on September 1, 1940. As of November 1, 2022, the city has an estimated population of 132,385 and a population density of 389 persons per km². The total area is . On March 1 ...

. From 1898 the line was part of the

Nagasaki Main Line The , or simply Nagasaki Line, is a railway line owned by the Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu) connecting Tosu Station in Saga Prefecture to Nagasaki Station in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. There is a separate branch of this line from Kikitsu S ...

until the Hizen Yamaguchi - Isahaya line opened in 1934.

History

The

Kyushu Railway was a company that built and operated railways in Kyushu, one of four main islands of Japan. Most of its lines came under the control of Japanese Government Railways following nationalization in 1907, and many are now operated by Kyushu Railway ...

Co. opened the entire line in 1898 as part of the original

. The company was nationalised in 1907. With the opening of the Hizen Yamaguchi - Isahaya section of the Nagasaki Main Line in 1934, the line was renamed the Omura Line. In 1992 the Haiki - Huis Ten Bosch section was electrified at 20kVAC.

Track data

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*Distance: 47.6 km *

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: *Stations: 13 *Tracks: Single *Electrification: **between Haiki and Huis Ten Bosch - electrified (20,000 V 60 Hz) **between Huis Ten Bosch and Isahaya - not electrified *Blocking system: Automatic

Stations

*S: Trains stop *, : Non-stop

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia {{DEFAULTSORT:Omura Line Lines of Kyushu Railway Company 1067 mm gauge railways in Japan