Keihan Katano Line

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Keihan Katano Line

A Local train,
series 10000

Line length:

6.9 km

Gauge:

1435 mm

Voltage:

1500 =

Legend

Yodoyabashi

Keihan:

Keihan Main Line

0.0

Hirakatashi

Keihan: Keihan Main Line

1.0

1.7

2.5

3.4

4.4

JR West:

Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line)

Kawachi-Iwafune

5.9

Keihanshin Iwafune abandoned in 1948

6.1

Kawachi-Mori

Mori Signal Box 1987 - 1992

6.9

Kisaichi

Keihan Katano Line

The Katano Line (交野線, Katano-sen^?) is a 6.9km length railway line of a Japanese private railway company Keihan Electric Railway, in northern Osaka Prefecture from Hirakatashi Station on the Keihan Main Line southbound to Kisaichi Station.

1 History
2 Operation
3 Stations
4 Rolling stock

[edit] History

The line was built and opened by an independent railway company, Shigi-Ikoma Electric Railway (信貴生駒電鉄, Shigi Ikoma Dentetsu^?) in 1929. The company aimed to build a line to connect its main line, present Ikoma Line of Kintetsu. The company cancelled the plan by financial reason, and commissioned the operation to Keihan. Later the operator changed, namely in 1939 Katano Electric Railway (交野電気鉄道, Katano Denki Tetsudō^?), Keihanshin Express Electric Railway (京阪神急行電鉄, Keihanshin Kyūkō Dentetsu^?) in 1945, finally in 1949 present Keihan Electric Railway.

The line had been single-tracked, but in 1992 the second tracks completed.

[edit] Operation

In the line all trains stop all stations. Several trains through to Keihan Main Line are operated on weekdays, as rapid trains. They are exceptionally named "Hikoboshi" and "Orihime", unlike other anonymous rapids of Keihan trains.

Local (普通, Futsū^?) (L): Between Hirakatashi and Kisaichi. No through service to Keihan Main Line. Exclusively in daytime of weekdays and all day of holidays
Sub Express (準急, Junkyū^?) "Hikoboshi" (H): In the weekday evenings, from Temmabashi for Kisaichi, stops at Kyōbashi, Moriguchi-shi, all stations from Kayashima to Hirakata-shi on the Keihan Main Line, and all stations on the Katano Line
K-Limited Express (K特急, K Tokkyū^?) "Orihime" (O): In the weekday mornings, from Kisaichi for Yodoyabashi, stops at all stations on the Katano Line to Hirakata-shi, then Kyōbashi, Temmabashi, and Kitahama on Keihan Main Line

[edit] Stations

All stations are in Osaka Prefecture.

*1: From Temmabashi
*2: To Yodoyabashi

Station	L	H	O	Location
To/From	N/A	*1	*2
Hirakatashi 枚方市駅	S	S	S	Hirakata
Miyanosaka 宮之阪駅	S	S	S
Hoshigaoka 星が丘駅	S	S	S
Murano 村野駅	S	S	S
Kōzu 郡津駅	S	S	S	Katano
Katano-shi 交野市駅	S	S	S
Kawachi-Mori 河内森駅	S	S	S
Kisaichi 私市駅	S	S	S