Ryōmō Line

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The Ryōmō Line (両毛線, Ryōmō-sen^?) is a trunk railway line between Oyama and Maebashi in Japan. 84.4 km (52.4 miles) long, the line is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) as part of the Greater Tokyo Area rail network.

[edit] Stations

Line	Name	in Japanese	Distance (km)		Connecting line	Location
				total		City	Prefecture
Ryōmō Line	Oyama	小山		0.0	JR East: Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), Mito Line	Oyama	Tochigi
	Omoigawa	思川	5.4	5.4
	Tochigi	栃木	5.4	10.8	Tōbu Railway: Tōbu Nikkō Line, Tōbu Utsunomiya Line	Tochigi
	Ōhirashita	大平下	4.4	15.2		Ōhira
	Iwafune	岩舟	4.1	19.3		Iwafune
	Sano	佐野	7.3	26.6	Tōbu Railway: Tōbu Sano Line	Iwafune
	Tomita	富田	4.5	31.1		Ashikaga
	Ashikaga	足利	7.1	38.2	Tōbu Railway: Tōbu Isesaki Line (at Ashikagashi Station, on foot)
	Yamamae	山前	4.5	42.7
	Omata	小俣	4.6	47.3
	Kiryū	桐生	5.6	52.9	Watarase Keikoku Railway: Watarase Keikoku Line Jōmō Electric Railway Company: Jōmō Line (at Nishi-Kiryū Station, on foot)	Kiryū	Gunma
	Shimoshinden Junction	下新田（信号所）	1.7	54.6	(no passenger service) Watarase Keikoku Line diverges here
	Iwajuku	岩宿	2.3	56.9		Midori
	Kunisada	国定	6.4	63.3		Isesaki
	Isesaki	伊勢崎	5.8	69.1	Tōbu Railway: Tōbu Isesaki Line
	Komagata	駒形	5.8	74.9		Maebashi
	Maebashi-Ōshima	前橋大島	3.2	78.1
	Maebashi	前橋	3.8	81.9	Jōmō Electric Railway Company: Jōmō Line (at Chūō-Maebashi Station, on foot or by bus)
	Shin-Maebashi	新前橋	2.5	84.4	JR East: Jōetsu Line (includes Agatsuma Line, for Shibukawa Station)
Jōetsu Line
	Ino	井野	3.3	87.7		Takasaki
	Takasaki-Ton'yamachi	高崎問屋町	1.2	88.9
	Takasaki	高崎	2.8	91.7	JR East: Jōetsu Shinkansen, Nagano Shinkansen (Hokuriku Shinkansen), Takasaki Line, Hachikō Line, Shin'etsu Line Jōshin Electric Railway: Jōshin Line

[edit] Services

Most Ryōmō Line services continue beyond Shin-Maebashi and terminate at Takasaki on the Jōetsu Line. Local trains are on services, about once in an hour in daylight time between Oyama and Maebashi, and twice or three times frequent between Maebashi and Takasaki. There are rapid train services. From(/to) Maebashi, Rapid Urban trains run for Ueno, and anomynous rapid bounds for Odawara, via Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. These rapid trains stop at all stations on Ryōmō Line.

The Akagi limited express train runs between Maebashi to Ueno (four times from Ueno, two or three times from Maebashi) or Shinjuku (one coming and going). At weekends, some Akagi services are branded Weekend Akagi.

The following train types provide services on the Ryomo Line:

• 107 series
• 115 series
• 185 series (for Akagi)
• 211 series
• E231 series

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