Kintetsu Osaka Line

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Kintetsu Osaka Line
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21000 series EMU on a limited express service passing New Aoyama Tunnel
Overview
Type Heavy rail
Commuter rail (Osaka Uehommachi - Haibara)
Locale Kansai
Termini Osaka Uehommachi
Ise-Nakagawa
Stations 48
Line number D
Operation
Opened April 30, 1914
Operator(s) Kintetsu Corporation
Depot(s) Takayasu
(Branch: Goido, Nabari, Aoyamacho)
Goido (workshop)
Technical
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Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification 1,500 V DC overhead line
Operating speed 130 km/h (80 mph)
(some limited express trains)
120 km/h (75 mph)
(limited express trains)
110 km/h (70 mph)
(other trains)

The Kintetsu Osaka Line (近鉄大阪線 Kintetsu Ōsaka-sen?) is a railway line in Japan owned by Kintetsu Corporation, connecting Osaka and Mie Prefecture via Nara Prefecture. The line is the longest double-tracked railway of non-JR operators. Together with the Kintetsu Nagoya Line, this line forms the route for Kintetsu limited express services connecting Osaka and Nagoya in competition with the Tokaido Shinkansen.

Rapid service

Along with charged Limited express, non-charged local and rapid services are operated on the line.

Local (普通 Futsū?) (L)
Mostly with 6-car formations, operations are divided at Nabari. In the west mainly between Osaka Uehommachi and Takayasu or Kawachi Kokubu. During the day, 5 services of 6 per hour per direction in the section between Osaka Uehommachi and Takayasu, the last between Osaka Uehommachi and Kawachi-Kokubu. In the east, between Nabari or Aoyamacho and Ise-Nakagawa. Some trains continues as other train types west of Nabari.
Suburban Semi-Express (区間準急 Kukan Junkyū?) (SSE)
The service started on March 20, 2012.[1] With 6-car formations. Between Osaka Uehommachi and Haibara on the non-rush hours, with one train from Nabari every day and another one to Nabari in the evening on weekdays.
Semi-Express (準急 Junkyū?) (SE)
Between Osaka Uehommachi and Takayasu, Haibara or Nabari except non-rush hours. With 10-car, 8-car, or 6-car formations.
Express (急行 Kyūkō?) (Ex)
Operated in day hours replacing rapid express, connecting Osaka Uehommachi and Aoyamachō or Isuzugawa on Toba Line, one and two services per hour respectively. Used short 6 car formations due to the lengths of platforms at Kawachi-Kokubu and Sambommatsu. Makes a connection to express train on Nagoya Line at Ise-Nakagawa. Trains make a special stop at Hasedera in the peony season and the maple leaf season.
Rapid Express (快速急行 Kaisoku Kyūkō?) (RE)
Long distance rapid service on morning and evening hours, between Osaka Uehommachi and Aoyamachō, or Matsusaka, Ujiyamada, Isuzugawa or Toba on Toba Line in Mie Prefecture. In the west of Nabari with longest 10 cars, in the west of Aoyamachō with longest 8 cars, in the east 4 or 6 cars.
After integration with suburban rapid express trains (区間快速急行, 区間快速 Kukan Kaisoku Kyūkō, Kukan Kaisoku?) on the diagram revision on March 20, 2012, Muroguchi-Ono and Akameguchi stations became 2 of the stops of the rapid express trains, but they pass Iga-Kozu, Nishi-Aoyama, and Higashi-Aoyama stations.[1]
Limited Express (特急 Tokkyū?)
Charged for seat reservation, between Osaka Namba on Kintetsu Namba Line (some Osaka Uehommachi) in Osaka and Nagoya or Ise - Shima region. Stops not shown in table.

Stations

  • s: Special stop in the peony season and the maple leaf season.
No. Stations Distance (km) SSE SE Ex RE Location
D03 Osaka Uehommachi 0.0 S S S S Tennōji-ku, Osaka Osaka Prefecture
D04 Tsuruhashi 1.1 S S S S Ikuno-ku, Osaka
D05 Imazato 2.8
D06 Fuse 4.1 S S S Higashi-Osaka
D07 Shuntokumichi 5.1
D08 Nagase
(Kindai University)		 6.2
D09 Mito 7.4
D10 Kyūhōjiguchi 8.3 Yao
D11 Kintetsu Yao 9.6 S S
D12 Kawachi-Yamamoto 11.1 S S
D13 Takayasu 12.2 S S
D14 Onji 13.3 S
D15 Hōzenji 14.9 S Kashiwara
D16 Katashimo 15.7 S
D17 Andō 16.6 S
D18 Kawachi-Kokubu
(Kansai University of Welfare Sciences)		 18.2 S S S
D19 Ōsaka-Kyōikudai-mae
(Ōsaka Kyōiku University)		 19.8 S S
D20 Sekiya 22.0 S S Kashiba Nara Prefecture
D21 Nijō 24.1 S S
D22 Kintetsu Shimoda 25.7 S S
D23 Goidō
(Mamigaoka New Town)		 27.1 S S S S
D24 Tsukiyama 28.8 S S Yamatotakada
D25 Yamato-Takada 29.9 S S S S
D26 Matsuzuka 31.8 S S
D27 Masuga 32.8 S S Kashihara
D39 Yamato-Yagi 34.8 S S S S
D40 Miminashi 36.9 S S
D41 Daifuku 38.2 S S Sakurai
D42 Sakurai 39.8 S S S S
D43 Yamato-Asakura 41.9 S S
D44 Hasedera 45.6 S S s
D45 Haibara 50.1 S S S S Uda
D46 Murōguchi-Ōno 57.2 S S S S
D47 Sambommatsu 59.7 S S S
D48 Akameguchi 64.0 S S S S Nabari Mie Prefecture
D49 Nabari 67.2 S S S S
D50 Kikyōgaoka 70.0 S S
D51 Mihata 73.1 S S
D52 Iga-Kambe 75.5 S S Iga
D53 Aoyamachō 77.9 S S
D54 Iga-Kōzu 80.6 S
D55 Nishi-Aoyama 83.8 S
D56 Higashi-Aoyama 91.5 S Tsu
D57 Sakakibara-Onsenguchi 95.4 S S
D58 Ōmitsu 97.6
D59 Ise-Ishibashi 101.6
D60 Kawai-Takaoka 104.4
D61 Ise-Nakagawa 108.9 S S Matsusaka

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Osaka Electric Railway opened the Osaka Uehommachi to Fuse section as 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) gauge dual track electrified at 600 V DC (as were all further sections unless otherwise noted) in 1914. The line was extended to Kintetsu Yao in 1924, and to Onji the following year, with the Yamato-Takada to Yamato-Yagi section opened (as single track) the same year, it being linked to Onji and duplicated in 1927. The line was then extended to Sakurai in 1929 and the voltage on the Sakurai to Fuse section increased to 1,500 V DC to permit through-running with the Sangu Express Railway line (see below).

The Sangu Express Railway opened the Sakurai to Hase section in 1929, electrified at 1,500 V DC, and extended the line to Ise-Nakagawa the following year, single track beyond Nabari. The two companies became part of Kintetsu between 1941 and 1944.

The voltage on the Osaka Uehommachi to Fuse section was increased to 1,500 V DC in 1956, and the Nabari to Iga-Kozu section was double-tracked between 1959 and 1961, the rest of the line being double-tracked between 1967 and 1975, when the 5,652 m Shin Aoyama tunnel was opened, then the longest tunnel built in Japan by a private railway.

Former connecting lines

  • Sakurai Station: The Hase Railway opened a 6 km 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge line to Hase in 1909. The company merged with the Osaka Electric Railway in 1928, the year before the Sangu Express Railway opened the Sakurai to Hase line in 1929, and the line closed in 1938. The Yamato Railway operated an 8 km 1,067 mm gauge line electrified at 600 V DC to Nishi-Tawaramoto on the Kintetsu Kashihara Line between 1923 and 1958.
  • Iga-Kambe Station: The (first) Iga Railway opened a 26 km 1,067 mm gauge line between Iga-Ueno on the Kansai Main Line and Nishi-Nabari in 1922, including a connection at this station. The line was electrified at 1,500 V DC in 1926. The section to Nishi-Nabari closed in 1964, with the Iga Line operated by the (second) Iga Railway after Kintetsu transferred operation of the line in 2007.
  • Ise-Ishibashi Station: The Dainippon Railway operated a 15 km 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge line between Hisai on the Kintetsu Nagoya Line and Ise-Kawaguchi on the Meisho Line that connected here between 1925 and 1943.

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.

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