Maizuru Line
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Maizuru Line | |
|---|---|
 A Maizuru limited express services at Higashi-Maizuru Station, July 2005 | |
| Overview | |
| Type | Heavy rail |
| Locale | Kyoto Prefecture |
| Termini |
Ayabe Higashi-Maizuru |
| Stations | 6 |
| Operation | |
| Opening | 1904 |
| Owner | JR West |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 26.4 km (16.4 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) |
| Electrification | 1,500 V DC, overhead wire |
The Maizuru Line (舞鶴線 Maizuru-sen) is a 26.4 km (16.4 mi) railway line in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
Stations
| Name | Japanese | Distance (km) |
Transfers | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayabe | 綾部 | 0.0 | Sanin Main Line | Ayabe | Kyoto Prefecture |
| Fuchigaki | 淵垣 | 5.3 | |||
| Umezako | 梅迫 | 8.2 | |||
| Magura | 真倉 | 15.5 | Maizuru | ||
| Nishi-Maizuru | 西舞鶴 | 19.5 | Kitakinki Tango Railway Miyazu Line | ||
| Higashi-Maizuru | 東舞鶴 | 26.4 | Obama Line | ||
History
The line opened in the autumn of 1904 to transport troops and materiel to the naval base and Maizuru-Higashi Port during the Russo-Japanese War, which commenced in February of that year.[1]
The former Maizurukō Line (舞鶴港線) branch line and the Naka-Maizuru Line (中舞鶴線) branch to the naval facility were both closed by 1985.[1]
The line was electrified in 1999.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "帰ろう 私たちの故郷へ ＪＲ舞鶴線" [JR Maizuru Line - Returning to our hometown]. The Asahi Shimbun Digital (in Japanese). Japan: The Asahi Digital Company. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
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