Gakunan Railway Line

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Gakunan Railway Line
Gakunan train at Yoshiwara Station 200511.jpg
A Gakunan train at Yoshiwara Station, November 2011
Overview
Type Heavy rail
Locale Shizuoka Prefecture
Termini Yoshiwara
Gakunan-Enoo
Stations 10
Operation
Opened 1936
Operator(s) Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd.
Technical
Line length 9.2 km (5.7 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification 1500 V DC overhead
Route map
Tōkaidō Main Line
0.0 Yoshiwara Station
Tōkaidō Shinkansen
1.8 Hidari-Fuji Signal
2.3 Jatco-mae Station
2.7 Yoshiwara-honchō Station
3.0 Hon-Yoshiwara Station
3.7 Tajuku Signal
4.4 Gakunan-Harada Station
5.4 Hina Station
6.4 Gakunan-Fujioka Station
7.3 Sudo Station
8.2 Kamiya Station
Tōkaidō Shinkansen
9.2 Gakunan-Enoo Station

The Gakunan Railway Line (岳南鉄道線 Gakunan Tetsudō-sen?) is Japanese railway line between Yoshiwara and Gakunan-Enoo, all within the industrial area of Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture. The line does not have any official name. This is the only railway line Gakunan Electric Train Co., Ltd. (岳南電車株式会社 Gakunan Densha Kabushiki-gaisha?) operates.[1] The operator company was established on April 1, 2013 as a subsidiary of the former operator Gakunan Railway (岳南鉄道 Gakunan Tetsudō?), a subsidiary of Fuji Kyuko.[2][3]

Stations

History

The Gakunan Railway began operations as an industrial railway named the Nissan Heavy Industrial Railroad (日産重工業専用鉄道 Nissan Jūkōgyō Senyō Tetsudō?) on August 5, 1936 as part of a project to create an industrial center in Fuji city. The terminal station of the line was established at Yoshiwara Station on the Tokaido Main Line, and initial plans called for the line to be extended as far as Numazu Station. These plans were delayed by World War II and were eventually cancelled with the end of the war and breakup of the Nissan zaibatsu. The line gained its present name on December 15, 1948, after which regularly scheduled passenger service began. The electric supply for the line was upgraded from 600 Volts to the present 1,500 volts in 1969. In 1984, scheduled freight services past Sudo were discontinued.

All freight services were discontinued on March 16, 2012.[2]

References

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