Tarumi Railway Tarumi Line

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Tarumi Line

Railbus type "Haimo 230",
the exterior painted by Masuo Ikeda

Line length:

34.5 km

Gauge:

1067 mm

Legend

Distances in parentheses are of JNR period

JR-C:

Tōkaidō Main Line

Yōrō Railway:

Yōrō Line

Ōgaki

2.7 (2.8)

Higashi-Ōgaki

Ibi River

JR-C:

Tōkaidō Main Line

4.5 (4.7)

Yokoya

5.5 (5.7)

Jūkujō

7.5 (7.6)

Mieji

10.8 (10.9)

Kitagata-Makuwa

12.5

MALera-Gifu

13.4 (13.6)

Itonuki

16.2 (16.3)

Motosu

17.5

Oribe

20.2 (20.4)

Kochibora

21.6 (21.7)

Tanigumi-guchi

23.6 (24.0)

Kōmi

25.2

Takashina

26.4

Nabera

28.3

Hinata

30.5

Takao

32.5

Midori

34.5

Tarumi

The Tarumi Line (樽見線, Tarumi-sen^?) is a Japanese railway line in Gifu Prefecture, between Ōgaki Station, Ōgaki and Tarumi Station, Motosu. This is the only railway line Tarumi Railway (樽見鉄道, Tarumi Tetsudō^?) operates. There was a freight rail service that transports cements for Sumitomo Ōsaka Cement of Sumitomo Group Gifu factory. It once accounted for 40% of the whole revenue, but the freight operation ceased in spring, 2006. The line is now under difficult business condition.^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Basic data
3 Stations
4 See also
5 Footnote
6 External links

[edit] History

The line was planned as a national interest, in a law of Japanese government^[1], as a railway line from Ōgaki via Ōno in Fukui Prefecture to Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. The construction began in 1935. The first section in service was in 1956 between Ōgaki and Tanigumiguchi. Two years later, an extension to Mino-Kōmi (美濃神海, Mino-Kōmi^?) (present Kōmi) was made.

In 1984, due to deficit, sparse traffic and dead end route, the operation and possession was transferred from the then Japan National Railways (JNR) to the third sector (in Japanese sense) Tarumi Railway.

The extension to complete present stretch from Kōmi to Tarumi 10.9km was done in 1989.

[edit] Basic data

Distance: 34.5 km
Gauge: 1,067 mm
Stations: 19
Track: Single
Power: Diesel
Railway signalling: Simplified automatic (ATS-S, ST)
Stations with passing loops: 4 (Higashi-Ōgaki, Kitagata-Makuwa, Motosu and Kōmi)

[edit] Stations

Ōgaki - Higashi-Ōgaki - Yokoya - Jūkujō - Mieji - Kitagata-Makuwa - MALera-Gifu - Itonuki - Motosu - Oribe - Kochibora - Tanigumi-guchi - Kōmi - Takashina - Nabera - Hinata - Takao - Midori - Tarumi