The was a railway route operated by

Towada Kankō Electric Railway The , or , is a transportation company that provides transportation services over a wide range of southeastern and central Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The company used to operate the Towada Kankō Electric Railway Line, which connects Misawa Stati ...

(Totetsu). It ran between

Misawa Station is a railway station and major stop along the Aoimori Railway Line in the city of Misawa in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third sector railway operator Aoimori Railway Company. Lines Misawa Station is one of six principal st ...

and Towadashi Station in eastern

Aomori Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, ...

, Japan.

History

On September 5, 1922, the began operating a 762mm gauge line between Furumaki Station (present day Misawa Station) and Sanbongi Station (present day Towadashi Station, with intermediate stops at Shichihyaku and Takashizu. Additional stations were added in the 1930s. In 1951, the line was fully electrified and the track

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was expanded to . The line was renamed as Towada Kankō Electric Railway Line on December 30, 1951. A single direction

Automatic Block Signal Automatic block signaling (ABS), spelled automatic block signalling or called track circuit block (TCB ) in the UK, is a railroad communications system that consists of a series of signals that divide a railway line into a series of sections, ...

control system was implemented from December 16, 1971. The Towadashi

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was rebuilt in 1985 to include a shopping complex. All freight operations on the line were suspended from 1986. A new

automatic train stop Automatic train stop or ATS is a system on a train that automatically stops a train if certain situations occur (unresponsive train operator, earthquake, disconnected rail, train running over a stop signal, etc.) to prevent accidents. In some scena ...

(ATS) system was implemented from October 1, 2002. The operation of the line was discontinued on April 1, 2012.

Station list

Line data

* Length: * Track gauge: * Number of stations: 11 (including termini) * Electrification: 1500 V DC * Tracks: single track *

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Equipment

As of April 1, 2003, the company had the following equipment: *Moha 7200 stock: #7204, 7205 *Moha 7700 stock and Kuha 7900 stock (formerly Tokyu 7700): #7701 + 7901–7903 *Moha 3400 stock: #3401 *Moha 3600 stock: #3603 *ED300: #301 *ED400: #402 *Tora 300: #301, 302

References

External links

official home page
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