New Shuttle

A New Shuttle train alongside the Tohoku Shinkansen in May 2009

The New Shuttle (ニューシャトル, Nyū Shatoru) is a manually driven rubber-tyred people mover system in Saitama Prefecture, Jaoan, operated by Saitama New Urban Transit Co., Ltd. (埼玉新都市交通株式会社, Saitama Shin Toshi Kōtsū Kabushiki-gaisha).

The 12.7-kilometre Ina Line (伊奈線, Ina-sen) that runs north from Ōmiya Station in Saitama, Saitama, alongside the Tohoku Shinkansen and Joetsu Shinkansen elevated high-speed lines through Ageo to Uchijuku Station in Ina in Saitama Prefecture in the Greater Tokyo Area is the only route that is run on the system. The line is double tracked from Ōmiya Station to Maruyama Station and single tracked from Maruyama to Uchijuku Station.

Saitama New Urban Transit is a kabushiki gaisha whose major shareholders include the East Japan Railway Company, Tobu Railway, banks, Saitama prefectural government, and the cities and the town served.

Ina Line stations

• Ōmiya Station, Ōmiya-ku, Saitama
• Tetsudō-Hakubutsukan Station (ex. Ōnari Station, renamed on 14 October 2007 )
• Kamonomiya Station, Kita-ku, Saitama
• Higashi-Miyahara Station
• Konba Station
• Yoshinohara Station
• Haraichi Station, Ageo, Saitama
• Shōnan Station
• Maruyama Station, Ina, Saitama
• Shiku Station
• Ina-Chūō Station
• Hanuki Station
• Uchijuku Station

Rolling stock

As of 1 April 2015, the following train types are used on the line.^[1]

• 1000 series
• 1050 series (sets 1150 to 1153)
• 2000 series
• 2020 series (since 4 November 2015)^[2]

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  1000 series

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  1050 series

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  2020 series set 21 in January 2016

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  2020 series set 22 in January 2016

2000 series

The 2000 series fleet consists of seven six-car sets (01 to 07) formed as follows.^[1] The trains have stainless steel bodies with different colour front ends and bodyside stripes.^[1]

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  2000 series set 01, October 2014

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  2000 series set 02, November 2015

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  2000 series set 03, November 2015

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  2000 series set 04, October 2014

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  2000 series set 05, November 2015

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  2000 series set 07, June 2015

History

The people of Ina town, on the branch point of the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen high-speed railway lines, opposed the latter being routed through their area, complaining that the town would be divided by the new tracks and beset with noise pollution. To placate the residents, new railway lines were planned. The AGT Ina Line was the solution reached for the area north of Ōmiya Station, where the potential demand was not large enough to run heavy rail lines economically. (Currently, the line generates an operating profit.) A heavy rail line (the Saikyo Line) was the solution reached for the south of Ōmiya Station.

• 1 April 1980: Operating company Saitama New Urban Transit Co., Ltd. (埼玉新都市交通株式会社, Saitama Shin Toshi Kōtsū Kabushiki-gaisha) is incorporated.
• 22 December 1983: The section between Ōmiya and Hanuki stations opens.
• 2 August 1990: The remaining section between Hanuki and Uchijuku stations opens.
• 14 October 2007: Ōnari Station is renamed Tetsudō-Hakubutsukan Station when the Railway Museum (Tetsudō-Hakubutsukan) opens.

See also

• List of rapid transit systems

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Saitama New Urban Transit.

• Official website (Japanese)

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