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Keishin Line

A Keihan 800 series train on the street-running section

Overview

Native name

京津線

Locale

Kyoto and Ōtsu, Japan

Termini

Stations

Service

Type

Interurban

Operator(s)

Keihan Electric Railway

History

Opened

1912

Closed

1997 (Misasagi - Keishin-Sanjo)

Technical

Line length

7.5 km (4.7 mi)^[1]

Number of tracks

2^[2]

Track gauge

1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in)

Electrification

1,500 V DC overhead catenary

Route map

The Keishin Line (京津線, Keishin-sen) is an interurban partially-street running railway line in Japan operated by the private railway operator Keihan Electric Railway. The 7.5 km (4.7 mi) line connects Misasagi Station in Kyoto and Biwako-hamaotsu Station in the neighbouring city of Ōtsu.

Train service

Except trains between Shinomiya Station and Biwako-hamaotsu Station in early morning and late night, all trains go directly from Biwako-hamaotsu Station to Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station or Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station on the Kyoto City Subway Tōzai Line.^[3] During off peak hours, the line operates every 20 minutes.

Stations and connecting lines

No.	Station	Japanese			Location
			Distance (km)^[1]
				Transfers
Operations continue to Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station on the Kyoto City Subway Tōzai Line.
T08	Misasagi	御陵	0.0	Kyoto City Subway Tozai Line (through trains)	Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
OT31	Keihan-yamashina	京阪山科	1.5	JR West (Yamashina Station) A Tōkaidō Line (Biwako Line) B Kosei Line Kyoto City Subway Tozai Line (T07: Yamashina Station)
OT32	Shinomiya	四宮	2.1
OT33	Oiwake	追分	3.4		Ōtsu, Shiga
OT34	Otani	大谷	5.0
OT35	Kamisakaemachi	上栄町	6.7
OT12	Biwako-hamaotsu	びわ湖浜大津	7.5	Keihan Railway Ishiyama Sakamoto Line

Abandoned stations

Midorigaoka Undōjō-mae: Shinomiya - Oiwake (extra station, abandoned in 1942)
Kamisekidera: Ōtani - Kamisakaemachi (abandoned on August 15, 1971)
Fudanotsuji: Kamisakaemachi - Biwako-Hamaōtsu (abandoned on October 1, 1946)

Abandoned section

The station list is as of 1997 before the street running section was abandoned due to replacement by the Tōzai Line subway. It also lists the corresponding subway stations that replaced the Keishin Line stations.

Station	Connection / note	Replaced by	Location
Keishin-Sanjō	Keihan Main Line, Keihan Ōtō Line	Sanjō-Keihan	Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
Higashiyama-Sanjō		Higashiyama
~~Heianjingū-mae~~	Abandoned in 1944
~~Okazakimichi~~	Abandoned in 1931
Keage		Keage
Kujōyama			Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
Hinooka		Misasagi
Misasagi		Misasagi

Rolling stock

Keihan 800 series, four-car EMUs

History

The line was built in 1912 (dual track electrified at 600 V DC) to connect the city centers of Kyoto and Ōtsu by electric streetcars, as the steam-powered Tōkaidō Main Line was an indirect route between the two cities before its realignment in 1921.^{[citation needed]}^[4]

The busiest section of the line, between Keishin-Sanjō Station and Misasagi Station, was replaced in 1997 by the Kyoto Subway Tōzai Line, and the voltage increased to 1,500 V DC in conjunction with this project in 1996.^{[citation needed]}^[5] One of the aims of the realignment was to move the tracks underground in the Kyoto area, in order to remove the former alignment along public roads. The line retains its public road alignment in Ōtsu.

References

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

^ ^a ^b "営業キロ程" (in Japanese). Keihan Electric railway.
^ "京阪電気鉄道株式会社" (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan Private Railway Association.
^ "Route Map and Stations" (PDF). Keihan Electric railway.
^ "京都エリア追分-御陵 <京津線>" (in Japanese). Keihan Electric Railway.
^ "車両制御方式の変遷" (PDF). 東洋電機製造百年史 (in Japanese). Toyo Denki Seizo. November 2018. p. 226. OCLC 1083069155.

External links

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