Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line

Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line
Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line
	A 1800 series EMU at Toshima Station in February 2007
Overview
Native name	豊橋鉄道渥美線
Locale	Aichi Prefecture
Termini	Shin-Toyohashi; Mikawa Tahara;
Stations	16
Website	www.toyotetsu.com
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	Toyohashi Railroad
Rolling stock	1800 series EMUs
History
Opened	January 22, 1924
Technical
Line length	18.0 km (11.2 mi)
Number of tracks	single
Track gauge	3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead
Operating speed	70 km/h (45 mph)
Train protection system	ATS-PT (compatible with Meitetsu)
Route map
	Legend

The Toyohashi Railroad Atsumi Line (豊橋鉄道渥美線, Toyohashi Tetsudō Atsumi-sen) is a railway line in eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Toyohashi Railroad ("Toyotetsu"). The line runs from the centre of Toyohashi, traversing the centre of the Atsumi Peninsula, a largely rural district noted also for its hot spring resorts and marine sports as part of Mikawa Wan Quasi-National Park. The line is entirely within the cities of Toyohashi and Tahara.

Operation

The northern terminal station for the Atsumi Line is located at Shin-Toyohashi Station. All trains run to the southern terminus at Mikawa Tahara Station at approximately 15 minute intervals. There are no express trains on the line.

History

The privately owned Atsumi Electric Railway (渥美電鉄, Atsumi Dentetsu) began operations on January 22, 1924 between Takashi and Toshima, electrified at 600 V DC. The line was extended to Kambe in March and to Mikawa Tahara by June 10 of the same year. In the opposite direction, the line was extended to Shin-Toyohashi by May 1925. On April 10, 1926, the now-defunct section of track from Mikawa Tahara to Kurokawahara was completed. Construction of a proposed extension to Fukue commenced in 1940, but was later abandoned due to material shortages in World War II.

On September 1, 1940, the Atsumi Electric Railway was merged into Nagoya Railway. Most of the stations on the line were closed on June 5, 1944, as an austerity measure. On October 1, 1954, the Toyohashi Railway was spun out from the Nagoya Railway as an independently operating subsidiary. Most of the closed stations were reopened by this time, but the section from Mikawa Tahara to Kurokawahara was closed permanently. Express train operations began from October 1, 1965.

All freight operations were discontinued from February 1, 1984 and express train operations were discontinued from September 1, 1985. On July 2, 1997 the electrification system was upgraded to 1,500 V DC.

Rolling stock

As of April 2015^[update], the line is operated using a fleet of ten three-car 1800 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trains.^[1] These trains were modified from former Tokyu 7200 series EMUs.^[2] All trains are configured for one-man operation.

Since 2013, the trains are each painted a different colour and carry the names of flowers, as follows.^[2]

Set No.	Flower name	Colour
1801	Rose (ばら, Bara)	Red
1802	Hibiscus (はまぼう, Hamabou)	Brown
1803	Rhododendron (つつじ, Tsutsuji)	Red
1804	Sunflower (ひまわり, Himawari)	Blue
1805	Sweet flag (菖蒲, Shoubu)	Purple
1806	Magnolia (しでこぶし, Shidekobushi)	Light green
1807	Rape blossom (菜の花, Nanohana)	Yellow
1808	Camellia (椿, Tsubaki)	Green
1809	Cherry blossom (桜, Sakura)	Pink
1810	Chrysanthemum (菊, Kiku)	Orange

Station list

No.	Station name	Japanese	Distance from Shin-Toyohashi (km)	Transfers	Location
No.	Station name	Japanese	Distance from Shin-Toyohashi (km)	Transfers	City	Prefecture
1	Shin-Toyohashi	新豊橋	0.0	JR Central (Toyohashi Station) Tokaido Shinkansen, Tokaido Main Line, Iida Line Meitetsu (Toyohashi Station) ■ Nagoya Main Line Toyohashi Railroad (Ekimae Station) ■ Azumada Main Line	Toyohashi	Aichi
2	Yagyu-bashi	柳生橋	1.0
3	Koike	小池	1.7
4	Aichidaigakumae	愛知大学前	2.5
5	Minami-Sakae	南栄	3.2
6	Takashi	高師	4.3
7	Ashihara	芦原	5.3
8	Ueta	植田	6.3
9	Mukougaoka	向ヶ丘	7.1
10	Ōshimizu	大清水	8.5
11	Oitsu	老津	10.7
12	Sugiyama	杉山	12.7
13	Yagumadai	やぐま台	14.0		Tahara
14	Toshima	豊島	15.6
15	Kambe	神戸	17.1
16	Mikawa Tahara	三河田原	18.0

References

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

^ 私鉄車両編成表 2015 [Private Railway Rolling Stock Formations - 2015] (in Japanese). Japan: Kotsu Shimbunsha. 23 July 2015. p. 92. ISBN 978-4-330-58415-7.
^ a b Terada, Hirokazu (January 2016). 日本のローカル私鉄 30年前の残照を訪ねてその26 [Japan's rural private railways: Revisiting the afterglow of 30 years ago (Part 26)]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 56, no. 657. Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. pp. 112–117.

[jrrprivate2015-1] 私鉄車両編成表 2015 [Private Railway Rolling Stock Formations - 2015] (in Japanese). Japan: Kotsu Shimbunsha. 23 July 2015. p. 92. ISBN 978-4-330-58415-7.

[railfan657-2] Terada, Hirokazu (January 2016). 日本のローカル私鉄 30年前の残照を訪ねてその26 [Japan's rural private railways: Revisiting the afterglow of 30 years ago (Part 26)]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 56, no. 657. Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. pp. 112–117.