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Technical
Line length34.5
Track gauge1067

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The Tarumi Line (樽見線, Tarumi-sen) is a Japanese railway line in Gifu Prefecture, between Ōgaki Station, Ōgaki and Tarumi Station, Motosu. This is the only railway line Tarumi Railway (樽見鉄道, Tarumi Tetsudō) operates. There was a freight rail service that transports cements for Sumitomo Ōsaka Cement of Sumitomo Group Gifu factory. It once accounted for 40% of the whole revenue, but the freight operation ceased in spring, 2006. The line is now under difficult business condition.[citation needed]

History

The line was planned as a national interest, in a law of Japanese government[1], as a railway line from Ōgaki via Ōno in Fukui Prefecture to Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture. The construction began in 1935. The first section in service was in 1956 between Ōgaki and Tanigumiguchi. Two years later, an extension to Mino-Kōmi (美濃神海) (present Kōmi) was made.

In 1984, due to deficit, sparse traffic and dead end route, the operation and possession was transferred from the then Japan National Railways (JNR) to the third sector (in Japanese sense) Tarumi Railway.

The extension to complete present stretch from Kōmi to Tarumi 10.9km was done in 1989.

Basic data

Stations

Ōgaki - Higashi-Ōgaki - Yokoya - Jūkujō - Mieji - Kitagata-Makuwa - MALera-Gifu - Itonuki - Motosu - Oribe - Kochibora - Tanigumi-guchi - Kōmi - Takashina - Nabera - Hinata - Takao - Midori - Tarumi

See also

Footnote

  1. ^ Tetsudō Fusetsuhō (鉄道敷設法) Table 74 (別表第74号, Beppyō Dai74gō)

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