Maizuru Line
| Maizuru Line | |
|---|---|
 | |
 A Maizuru limited express services at Higashi-Maizuru Station in July 2005 | |
| Overview | |
| Owner | JR West |
| Locale | Kyoto Prefecture |
| Termini | |
| Stations | 6 |
| Service | |
| Type | Heavy rail |
| History | |
| Opened | 1904 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 26.4 km (16.4 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) |
| Electrification | 1,500 V DC, overhead wire |
The Maizuru Line (舞鶴線, Maizuru-sen) is a 26.4 km (16.4 mi) railway line in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Ayabe and Higashi-Maizuru, the line beyond there being called the Obama Line connecting to Tsuruga.
Stations
- Local trains stop at every station and rapid trains at the stations marked "S".
| Name | Japanese | Distance (km) |
Rapid | Transfers | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayabe | 綾部 | 0.0 | S | E Sanin Main Line | Ayabe | Kyoto Prefecture |
| Fuchigaki | 淵垣 | 5.3 | S | |||
| Umezako | 梅迫 | 8.2 | S | |||
| Magura | 真倉 | 15.5 | | | Maizuru | ||
| Nishi-Maizuru | 西舞鶴 | 19.5 | S | ■M Kyoto Tango Railway (Willer Trains) Miyamai Line (M8) | ||
| Higashi-Maizuru | 東舞鶴 | 26.4 | S | Obama Line | ||
History
The line opened in the autumn of 1904 to transport troops and materiel to the naval base and Maizuru-Higashi Port during the Russo-Japanese War, which commenced in February of that year.[1] Although built by the Japanese Government, it was initially leased to the Bantsuru Railway Co, which opened the Ayabe – Fukuchiyama section of what is now the Sanin Main Line the same year.
The company was nationalised in 1907, the year the 2 km Maizurukō Line (舞鶴港線) from Nishi-Maizuru to Maizuru Port opened. Passenger services operated on that branch between 1913 and 1924, and it closed in 1985.
Nishi-Maizuru was also the junction for the 4 km Naka-Maizuru Line (中舞鶴線) to Naka-Maizuru which operated between 1919 and 1972.[1]
The line was electrified in 1999.[1]
References
- ^ a b c 帰ろう 私たちの故郷へ ＪＲ舞鶴線 [JR Maizuru Line – Returning to our hometown]. The Asahi Shimbun Digital (in Japanese). Japan: The Asahi Digital Company. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2012.