Ryōmō Line
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Ryōmō Line | ||
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Overview | ||
Locale | Gunma, Tochigi prefectures | |
Termini | Oyama Shin-Maebashi | |
Stations | 18 | |
Service | ||
Operator(s) | JR East | |
History | ||
Opened | 1889 | |
Technical | ||
Line length | 84.4 km (52.4 mi) | |
Track gauge | 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) | |
Electrification | 1,500 V DC overhead catenary | |
Operating speed | 95 km/h (60 mph) | |
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The Ryōmō Line (両毛線, Ryōmō-sen) is a Japanese railway line connecting Oyama in Tochigi Prefecture with Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture. 84.4 km (52.4 mi) long, the line is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The name refers to the fact that Gunma and Tochigi prefectures were once part of an ancient province called Keno (毛野), which was later split into Kōzuke (Gunma) and Shimotsuke (Tochigi). This line connects both halves of the old province.
Services[]
Most Ryōmō Line services continue beyond Shin-Maebashi and terminate at Takasaki on the Joetsu Line. Local trains run about once in an hour during the day between Oyama and Maebashi and twice or three times as frequently between Maebashi and Takasaki. Some rapid services from Ueno and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line travel through onto the Ryōmō Line, but they stop at every station.
Station list[]
Line | Station | Japanese | Distance (km) | Transfers | Location | ||
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Between stations |
Total | ||||||
Ryōmō Line | Oyama | 小山 | 0.0 | Tohoku Shinkansen, Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), Shonan-Shinjuku Line, Mito Line | Oyama | Tochigi | |
Omoigawa | 思川 | 5.4 | 5.4 | ||||
Tochigi | 栃木 | 5.4 | 10.8 |
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Tochigi | ||
Ōhirashita | 大平下 | 4.4 | 15.2 | ||||
Iwafune | 岩舟 | 4.1 | 19.3 | ||||
Sano | 佐野 | 7.3 | 26.6 | Tōbu Sano Line | Sano | ||
Tomita | 富田 | 4.5 | 31.1 | Ashikaga | |||
Ashikaga Flower Park | あしかがフラワーパーク | 0.9 | 32.0 | ||||
Ashikaga | 足利 | 6.2 | 38.2 | TI Tobu Isesaki Line (Ashikagashi) | |||
Yamamae | 山前 | 4.5 | 42.7 | ||||
Omata | 小俣 | 4.6 | 47.3 | ||||
Kiryū | 桐生 | 5.6 | 52.9 | Watarase Keikoku Line Jōmō Line (Nishi-Kiryū) |
Kiryū | Gunma | |
Iwajuku | 岩宿 | 2.3 | 56.9 | Midori | |||
Kunisada | 国定 | 6.4 | 63.3 | Isesaki | |||
Isesaki | 伊勢崎 | 5.8 | 69.1 | TI Tobu Isesaki Line | |||
Komagata | 駒形 | 5.8 | 74.9 | Maebashi | |||
Maebashi-Ōshima | 前橋大島 | 3.2 | 78.1 | ||||
Maebashi | 前橋 | 3.8 | 81.9 | Jōmō Line (Chūō-Maebashi) | |||
Shin-Maebashi | 新前橋 | 2.5 | 84.4 | Joetsu Line (for Shibukawa), Agatsuma Line[* 2] | |||
Joetsu Line | |||||||
Ino | 井野 | 3.3 | 87.7 | Takasaki | |||
Takasakitonyamachi | 高崎問屋町 | 1.2 | 88.9 | ||||
Takasaki | 高崎 | 2.8 | 91.7 | Joetsu Shinkansen, Hokuriku Shinkansen, Takasaki Line, Shonan-Shinjuku Line, Shinetsu Main Line, Hachiko Line[* 3] Jōshin Dentetsu Jōshin Line |
- ^ The official start of the Tobu Utsunomiya Line is at Shin-Tochigi, but all trains travel through on the Tōbu Nikkō Line to Tochigi.
- ^ The official start of the Agatsuma Line is at Shibukawa, but all trains travel through on the Joetsu Line to Takasaki.
- ^ The official start of the Hachiko Line is at Kuragano, but all trains travel through on the Takasaki Line to Takasaki.
Rolling stock[]
The following train types are used on the Ryōmō Line.
- 107 series (until October 2017)
- 115 series (until 2018)
- 185 series (Ashikaga Ō-Fuji-Matsuri extra special rapid services)
- 211 series
- 651 series (now use only Ashikaga Fuji-Matsuri extra special rapid services) (Akagi limited express services until 13 March 2021)
- E231-1000 series
- E233-3000 series EMUs (since 1 September 2012)[1]
History[]
The Oyama to Kiryu section was opened in 1888 by the Ryomo Railway, and extended to Shin-Maebashi the following year. The company merged with the Nippon Railway in 1897, and that company was nationalised in 1906.
References[]
- ^ JR東日本 高崎線・両毛線 E233系3000番代営業運転開始 [JR East E233-3000 series enter revenue service on Takasaki and Ryomo Lines]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 41 no. 343. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. November 2012. p. 78.
External links[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ryōmō Line. |
- Stations of the Ryōmō Line (JR East) (in Japanese)
- Ryōmō Line
- Lines of East Japan Railway Company
- Rail transport in Tochigi Prefecture
- Rail transport in Gunma Prefecture
- 1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
- Railway lines opened in 1889