The is a railway line in
Japan
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Toyono Station
is a railway station in Toyono in the city of Nagano, Japan, jointly operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway.
Lines
Toyono Station forms a nominal terminus for the JR ...
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Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital city of the same prefecture
*** Nagano 1998, the 1998 Winter Olympics
*** Nagano Olympic Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nagano
*** Nagano Universi ...
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Nagano Prefecture
is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...
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Echigo-Kawaguchi Station in
Nagaoka,
Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...
. It is operated by
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 ...
(JR East).
Stations
Rolling stock
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KiHa 110 series DMUs
History
The Iiyama Railway Co. opened the first section from Toyono to its namesake town in 1921, and extended the line in sections to Tokamachi in 1929, where it connected to the Japanese Government Railways line from Echigo-Kawaguchi which had opened in 1927.
The Iiyama Railway Co. was nationalised in 1944, and freight services ceased in 1987.
The line sees much snow in the winter. The line uses avalanche fences along steep slopes, snow sheds and has a melting system at level crossings to deal with the snow. A record 7.85m of snow fell at Mori-Miyanohara Station in February 1945, an event that is remembered with a pole just outside the station marking the vast amount of snow.
References
External links
Iiyama Line Timetable (in Japanese)
{{East Japan Railway Company Lines
Lines of East Japan Railway Company
Railway lines in Nagano Prefecture
Rail transport in Niigata Prefecture