Keifuku Electric Railroad

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Randen tram car under cherry blossoms.
Randen tram car under cherry blossoms.
Randen tram car at Kōryūji Station, in front of Kōryū-ji Temple.
Randen tram car at Kōryūji Station, in front of Kōryū-ji Temple.

Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., Ltd. (京福電気鉄道株式会社 Keifuku Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a railroad company based in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan (but with offices in Fukui Prefecture) in operation since March 2, 1942.[1] It is a parent company of Keifuku Bus, and an affiliated company of Keihan Electric Railway.[2]

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[edit] Lines

The present network[3] itself began in service in 1910 by Arashiyama Electric Tram Railway (嵐山電車軌道 Arashiyama Densha Kidō?), then transferred to Kyoto based electric power corporation Kyoto Dento (京都電燈 Kyōto Dentō?). then it opened Kitano Line.[4]:

  • Randen tram lines
    • Arashiyama Main Line (嵐山本線), 7.2 km
    • Kitano Line (北野線), 3.8 km
  • Eizan Cable (叡山鋼索線), 1.3 km (Funicular)
  • Eizan Ropeway (叡山ロープウェイ), 0.5 km (Aerial tramway)

The Main Line connects Kyoto's city center (Shijo-Omiya terminal) and scenic Arashiyama area in the western suburb. The Kitano Line is from Kitano Hakubaicho Station near Kitano Tenman-gū to Katabiranotsuji Station in the midst of Main Line. The cable and ropeway lines are for visitors to Mount Hiei on the northeastern edge of the city, together with Eizan Electric Railway's Eizan Main Line.

Formerly the company operated several railway lines in Fukui Prefecture. Some of them are now operated by Echizen Railway.[5]

Lines of Eizan Electric Railway were of Keifuku until 1985.

[edit] Etymology

"Keifuku" is comprised of two letters "京" and "福", former denotes Kyoto, latter Fukui. Lines of then Kyoto Dento were in Fukui of its hydraulic source and in the area of supply in Kyoto, thus named after Kyoto and Fukui. Often mistaken is that the company has or had a plan to connect their lines of the two prefectures.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 会社概要：京福電気鉄道 (Japanese). Retrieved on 2007-03-22.
  2. ^ 会社案内：京阪グループネットワーク (Japanese). Retrieved on 2007-03-22.
  3. ^ JTB Timetable No. 975 (April 2007) (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB Corporation, pp. 836, 839. 
  4. ^ Wakuda, Yasuo (和久田康雄) (1993). Shitetsushi Handobukku (私鉄史ハンドブック) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Denkisha Kenkyūkai (電気車研究会), p. 127. 
  5. ^ Kokudo Kōtsū Shō Tetsudō Kyoku (2003). Tetsudō Yōran (Heisei 15 Nendo) (in Japanese). Tokyo: Denkisha Kenkyūkai. ISBN 4885481031. 

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