Kurobe Gorge Railway

The Kurobe Gorge Railway (黒部峡谷鉄道株式会社, Kurobe Kyōkoku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha^?), or Kurotetsu (黒鉄^?) for short, is a private 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway company operating the Kurobe Gorge Main Line along the Kurobe River in the Kurobe gorge area of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The railway was built to serve the construction of the Kurobe dam for the Kansai Electric Power Company, which was completed in 1963; Kurotetsu was spun off from the power company in June 1971, but remains a wholly owned subsidiary. At its terminus, the Main Line links to Kurobe Senyō Railway, which is not open to general public.

Contents 1 Equipment 1.1 Electric locomotives 1.2 Battery electric locomotives 1.3 Diesel locomotives 1.4 Passenger cars 1.5 Freight cars 2 Stations 3 External links

Equipment

Electric locomotives

• EB class (Nos. 1–3, 5–7): withdrawn from service in 1984.
• ED class (Nos. 8–11): 9–11 survive.
• EDS class (Nos. 13, 15–17): No. 13 survives.
• EDM class (Nos. 22, 23, 30–32)
• EDR class (Nos. 17–21,24–29,33)
• EHR class (Nos. 101, 102)

Battery electric locomotives

• BB class (Nos. 1,2)

Diesel locomotives

• DB class (No. 11): withdrawn 1985
• DD21: withdrawn 1979
• DD22, DD23: DD23 withdrawn 2000
• DD24

Passenger cars

• Ha (ハ^?) class: 2-axle open car.
• 1000 class: open car
• 2000 class: heated car with fixed, widthwise seats, extra charge to ride
• 2500 class: heated car with reversible seats so that passengers can always ride facing forward, extra charge to ride
• 2800 class: lounge car, heated, reversible seats, extra charge to ride
• 3000 class: panoramic observation car, extra charge to ride

Freight cars

• wa (ワ^?) class (boxcar)
• oshi (オシ^?) class depressed center flatcar
• muchi (ムチ^?) class flatcar
• nachi (ナチ^?) class flatcar
• ochi (オチ^?) class flatcar
• oto (オト^?) class gondola
• to (ト^?) class gondola
• chi (チ^?) class flatcar
• shi (シ^?) class depressed center flatcar

Stations

All stations are in Kurobe, Toyama Prefecture.

Name	Japanese	Distance	Train stop
Unazuki	宇奈月	0.0	●
Yanagibashi	柳橋	2.1	｜
Moriishi	森石	5.1	｜
Kuronagi	黒薙	6.5	▲
Sasadaira	笹平	7.0	｜
Dashidaira	出平	9.1	｜
Nekomata	猫又	11.8	｜
Kanetsuri	鐘釣	14.3	●
Koyadaira	小屋平	17.5	｜
Keyakidaira	欅平	20.1	●

●：All trains stop ▲：Some trains stop｜：Only technical stops

External links

• (Japanese) (English) (Korean) (Chinese) Official site