Nanpō Freight Line
railway line in Nagoya, Japan
The Nanpō Freight Line (南方貨物線, Nanpō Kamotsu-sen) is a railway line in Nagoya Japan. Intended to increase capacity by connecting Nagoya Freight Terminal Station with Kasadera Station and Ōbu Station, work on it was suspended before completion. It was constructed not by the Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation, but by Japanese National Railways (JNR) itself.
Line Data
Length: 26 km (from Nagoya Freight Terminal Station to Ōbu Station)
Electrification: complete, 1500 V DC
Dual track: full line
Triple track: from Nagoya Freight Terminal Station to crosspoint with Nagoya Minato Line
History
Between 1965 and 1975, JNR was transporting a large portion of the nation's freight. In the Nagoya area, slow freight trains were interfering with passenger service, and as a result, a plan was sought to provide a separated line to carry freight traffic. As Sasajima Station, the city's main freight terminal just south Nagoya Station, became too small, freight was to move south to a new site. The Nanpō Freight Line was built to bypass the busy Tōkaidō Main Line and serve these stations.
The original plan was to build a separate freight line bypassing the Tōkaidō Main Line from Inazawa Station's freight marshalling yard to Sasajima Station (which is actually a quadruple-tracked section of the Tōkaidō Main) and an extension to West Nagoyakō Station. The extension would be called the West Nagoyakō Line, and along its path would be constructed the Nagoya Freight Terminal Station. Diverging from that point and crossing the Nagoya Minato Line, then running parallel to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, crossing the Meitetsu Tokoname Line, before rejoining the Tōkaidō Main Line just before Kasadera Station and continue to Ōbu Station in a quadruple track arrangement.
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