JNR Kiha 37 1001 at Nishiwaki Station 19861231

The was a railway line of

West Japan Railway Company , also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...

between Nishiwaki and Taka District all within

Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 () and has a geographic area of . Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, an ...

, Japan. The line closed on April 1, 1990.

Stations

:Notes :1: Nomura Station was renamed Nishiwakishi Station upon closure of the Kajiya Line. :2: The former town of Naka became a part of the town of Taka in 2005.

History

The opened the line between 1913 and 1923. The railway was acquired by the in 1923 and nationalised in 1943 together with other Bantan Railway lines, i.e. the

Kakogawa Line The is a railway line in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West), which connects the cities of Kakogawa and Tamba. The line begins at Kakogawa Station on the JR Kobe Line (Sanyō Main Line) and ends at Ta ...

, the Takasago Line, the Miki Line, and the

Hōjō Line The is a Japanese railway line in Hyōgo Prefecture, between Ao, Ono and Hōjōmachi, Kasai. This is the only railway line operated by . The third sector company took former Japanese National Railways line in 1985. The line links Hōjō, a ce ...

. Under the operation of

Japanese National Railways The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987. Network Railways As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...

(JNR), freight services ceased in 1974. JR West succeeded the line in 1987 and closed it in 1990, concurrently with the

Miyazu Line The is a railway line of the Kyoto Tango Railway in Kyoto Prefecture and Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Trains on the line are operated by Willer Trains Inc. as part of its Kyoto Tango Railway system. The and the are the aliases assigned by Wille ...

and the

Taisha Line The is a 8.3 km railway line owned by the Ichibata Electric Railway. The line connects Kawato Station with Izumo Taisha-mae Station, all within Izumo, Shimane, Izumo, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. With the closure of JR West, JR West's Taish ...

, as the last of 83 "

specified local lines The were the railway lines specified by Japanese National Railways (JNR) under the 1980 to be closed. All of 83 lines were closed and substituted by buses or transferred to other railway operators between 1983 and 1990. Selection Article 8 of the ...

" selected for closure.

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia. {{Specified local lines, state=collapsed Rail transport in Hyōgo Prefecture Lines of West Japan Railway Company Closed railway lines in Japan Railway lines closed in 1990