is a passenger

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located in the city of Ōzu,

Ehime Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Shikoku. Ehime Prefecture has a population of 1,342,011 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 5,676 km2 (2,191 sq mi). Ehime Prefecture borders Kagawa Prefecture to the northeast, Toku ...

, Japan. It is operated by

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and has the station number "S12".

Lines

Iyo-Nagahama Station is located on the older, original, branch of the

Yosan Line The is the principal railway line on the island of Shikoku in Japan, connecting the major cities of Shikoku, and via the Honshi-Bisan Line, with Honshu. It is operated by the Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku), and is aligned approximately pa ...

which runs along the coast from to and is 233.1 km from the beginning of the line at . Only local trains stop at the station. Eastbound local services end at . Connections with other services are needed to travel further east of Matsuyama on the line.

Layout

The station consists of a

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and an

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular on ...

serving three tracks with the centre one (track 2) being unused. The station building is unstaffed and serves only as a waiting room. Access to the island platform is by means of a level crossing with steps at both ends. A siding branches off track 1 and ends near the station building. File:Iyo-nagahama stn. platform.JPG, A view of the station platforms. The siding can be seen branching off to the left. To the right, grass can be seen growing over the unused track 2. Track 3 can be seen branching to the extreme right on the other side of the island platform.

History

The station open as on 14 February 1918. At that time it was the eastern terminus of the privately run 762 mm gauge Ehime Railways. When the company was nationalized on 1 October 1933,

Japanese Government Railways The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...

(JGR) assumed control. The station was renamed Iyo-Nagahama and was operated as part of the Ehime Line. The track was regauged to 1067 mm and linked up with the Yosan Mainline track from on 6 October 1935. Iyo-Nagahama, which had also been moved 200m nearer to Kitanada at the same time, then became a through-station on the Yosan Mainline. With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR Shikoku.

Surrounding area

*Ozu City Hall Nagahama Branch (former Nagahama Town Hall) *Nagahama port *Ehime Prefectural Nagahama High School

References

External links

Station timetable
{{Yosan Line Railway stations in Ehime Prefecture Railway stations in Japan opened in 1918 Ōzu, Ehime