Katsuyama Eiheiji Line
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Katsuyama Eiheiji Line (勝山永平寺線 Katsuyama Eiheiji-sen?) is a railway line operated by Echizen Railway in Fukui Prefecture. The line streches from the city of Fukui to Katsuyama with a total of 27.8 km and 23 stations. It was operated by Keifuku Electric Railway until 2003.
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[edit] Schedule
Trains are run about every half half hour, except for the rush hour time at seven o'clock. Rapid trains are run in the morning once a day only for Fukui, stopping at the following stations: Katsuyama Station, Hossaka Station, Echizen-Takehara Station, Sannō Station, Eiheijiguchi Station, and every station between Matsuoka and Fukui.[1]
[edit] History
Kyoto Dentō, a former body of Keifuku began operating the line in 1913 between Shin-Fukui Station and Ichiarakawa Station (now Echizen-Takehara Station) as Echizen Main Line. The entire line was opened in 1918 to Ōno-Jūban Station (later renamed to Keifuku-Ōno), and the line extended to Fukui in 1929. [2] In 1974, The sector from Katsuyama Station to Keifuku-Ōno was discontinued, and the route from Eiheijiguchi to Katsuyama was taken into consideration in 1998, which the local community opposed and was taken down. On December 17, 2000, A train entering from Eiheiji Line at Higashi-Furuichi (now Eiheijiguchi) Station could not stop due to brake problems and collided into another train on Echizen Main Line, killing the driver and injuring 24 passengers. Again on June 24, 2001, two trains going different directions collided head-to-head between Hota and Hossaka stations on the Echizen Main Line injuring 24, and forcing Keifuku to cease operation and eventually transfer its Fukui Prefecture lines to Echizen Railway in 2003. [3][2]
[edit] Rolling stock
Echizen Railway uses twenty-five cars total in its entire railway. The main type active is the MC6101, with twelve cars, followed by MC2101 with eight cars, MC6001 with two cars, and three other types with one each. [4]
[edit] Stations
- x: stop, |: pass
- Local trains (普通) stop at every station
| Station | km from terminal | Rapid 快速 |
Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukui 福井 |
0.0 | x | Fukui | Fukui Prefecture |
| Shin-Fukui 新福井 |
0.5 | x | ||
| Fukuiguchi 福井口 |
1.5 | x | ||
| Echizen-Kaihotsu 越前開発 |
2.4 | x | ||
| Echizen-Shinbo 越前新保 |
3.4 | x | ||
| Oiwakeguchi 追分口 |
4.4 | x | ||
| Higashi-Fujishima 東藤島 |
5.3 | x | ||
| Echizen-Shimabashi 越前島橋 |
6.0 | x | ||
| Kannonchō 観音町 |
7.3 | x | Eiheiji, Yoshida District | |
| Matsuoka 松岡 |
8.4 | x | ||
| Shiizakai 志比堺 |
9.3 | | | ||
| Eiheijiguchi 永平寺口 |
10.9 | x | ||
| Shimoshii 下志比 |
11.9 | | | ||
| Kōmyōji 光明寺 |
12.7 | | | ||
| Domeki 轟 |
14.2 | | | ||
| Echizen-Nonaka 越前野中 |
15.7 | | | ||
| Sannō 山王 |
17.2 | x | ||
| Echizen-Takehara 越前竹原 |
19.3 | x | ||
| Kobunato 小舟渡 |
21.2 | | | ||
| Hota 保田 |
23.1 | | | Katsuyama | |
| Hossaka 発坂 |
24.5 | x | ||
| Hishima 比島 |
26.4 | | | ||
| Katsuyama 勝山 |
27.8 | x | ||
