The was a Japanese
railway
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
line in
Hyōgo Prefecture, between
Yakujin Station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kakogawa, Hyōgo, Kakogawa, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Lines
Yakujin Station is served by the Kakogawa Line and is 7.4 kilometers kilometers ...
in
Kakogawa and
Miki Station
is a passenger railway station located in the city of Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private Kobe Electric Railway (Shintetsu). There was a station with the same name on the Miki Railway Miki Line which ended operation on Marc ...
in
Miki. This was the only railway line operated. The line linked Miki and the
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 ...
Kakogawa Line at Yakujin station.
Basic data
*Distance:
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Gauge
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:
*Stations: 9
*Track: Single
*Power: Internal combustion (Diesel)
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Railway signalling
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Staff token
History
The opened the line from 1916 to 1917. The railway was acquired by the in 1923 and nationalised in 1943 together with other Bantan Railway lines, i.e. the
Kakogawa Line, the
Takasago Line The was an 8.0-kilometer long railway line of Japanese National Railways between Kakogawa and Takasago all within Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. This line existed between 1913 and 1984.
History
The opened the line between Kakogawachō and Takasagogu ...
, the
Kajiya Line
The was a railway line of West Japan Railway Company between Nishiwaki and Taka District all within Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The line closed on April 1, 1990.
Stations
:Notes
:1: Nomura Station was renamed Nishiwakishi Station upon closure of ...
and the
Hōjō Line.
Freight services ceased in 1974. The
third sector (in Japanese sense) company was created and succeeded the line when
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 ...
abandoned the route in 1985.
The majority of commuters used
Kobe Electric Railway
, often called , is a Japanese private railway
A private railway is a railroad run by a private business entity (usually a corporation but not need be), as opposed to a railroad run by a public sector.
Japan
In Japan, , commonly simply ''priva ...
's (Shintetsu)
Ao Line to get to
Kobe instead of the Miki–Kakogawa Line route. As a result, Miki Railway had been unable to justify continued financial support from the city. On March 1, 2007, the Miki City Council officially decided to abandon the line with the company agreeing on April 26, 2007. The line was closed on April 1, 2008. This was the fourth third-sector railway operator to cease operations, and the fifth third-sector line closed.
Stations
See also
*
List of railway companies in Japan
List of railway companies in Japan lists Japanese railway operators.
Those in ''italics'' are the third-sector operators; being half-public, half-private.
Japan Railways Group
The Japan Railways Group consists of the seven companies that were fo ...
*
List of railway lines in Japan
External links
Interest Spotsincluding Miki Rail-Bus, i
Miki City Council English official website
Miki City Transport Policy Divisionfro
Miki City Council official website
References
This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia
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Defunct railway companies of Japan
Rail transport in Hyōgo Prefecture
Railway companies established in 1985
Railway companies disestablished in 2008
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
Japanese third-sector railway lines
1985 establishments in Japan