The is a railway line in
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, operated by
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 ...
(JR West), which connects the cities of
Kakogawa and
Tamba.
The line begins at
Kakogawa Station on the
JR Kobe Line (
Sanyō Main Line
, stylized as SANYO, is a Japanese electronics company and formerly a member of the ''Fortune'' Global 500 whose headquarters was located in Moriguchi, Osaka prefecture, Japan. Sanyo had over 230 subsidiaries and affiliates, and was founded ...
) and ends at
Tanikawa Station on the
Fukuchiyama Line
The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) connecting Osaka and Fukuchiyama, Japan. Within JR West's "Urban Network" covering the Osaka–Kobe–Kyoto metropolitan region, the line from Osaka to Sasayamaguchi is also ...
.
History
The Banshu Railway opened the Kakogawa - Nishiwakishi section in 1913, and extended the line to Tanikawa in 1924. The company was nationalised in 1943.
Freight services ceased in 1986, and CTC signalling was commissioned on the entire line in 2004.
Former branches of the Kakogawa Line included the
Takasago Line (connected at Kakogawa Station), the
Miki Line (connected at Yakujin Station) and the
Kajiya Line (connected at Nomura Station, i.e. present-day Nishiwakishi Station).
Stations
Rolling stock
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103 series EMUs
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125 series
The is a single-car DC electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR-West) on local services in Japan since March 2003.
Design
The 125 series design is based on the 223-2000 series EMU design, with stainl ...
EMUs
Former
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KiHa 20 DMUs
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KiHa 23 DMUs
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KiHa 30/35 DMUs
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KiHa 37 DMUs
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KiHa 40/47 DMUs
References
Lines of West Japan Railway Company
Rail transport in Hyōgo Prefecture
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
Railway lines opened in 1913
1913 establishments in Japan
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