Odakyū Odawara Line
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The Template:Nihongo is the main line of Japanese private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway. It extends Template:Cvt from Shinjuku in central Tokyo through the southwest suburbs to the city of Odawara, the gateway to Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is a busy commuter line and is also known for its "Romancecar" limited express services. From Yoyogi-Uehara Station some trains continue onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and beyond to the East Japan Railway Company Joban Line.
OperationEdit
Destinations are from Shinjuku unless noted. English abbreviations are tentative for this article.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo
- Collectively known as "Romancecar" services, there is an extra seat charge for limited express service. Daytime service trains bound for: Template:STN; Template:STN on the Enoshima Line; Template:STN on the Hakone Tozan Railway; and Template:STN on the Central Japan Railway Company Gotemba Line.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo (RE)
- No extra charge. Services are for Odawara and Template:STN on the Odakyu Enoshima Line all Rapid Express trains that are bound for Template:STN terminates at Template:STN and becomes Express.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo (E)
- Services are for Template:STN, as well as thrice-hourly service between Machida and Odawara.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo (SE)
- Most services are for Template:STN. All services run through on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Subway Line with some continuing on to the JR Joban Line.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo
- Most services for Template:STN; others to Template:STN, through to Template:STN and the Tama and Hakone Tozan lines. Also service between Template:STN to Template:STN
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo (CE)
- All services operate in the weekday morning for Shinjuku from Karakida on the Odakyu Tama Line.
- Template:Color box Template:Nihongo (CS)
- All services operate from Hon-Atsugi to the Chiyoda Line during weekday mornings.
StationsEdit
Notes:
- See the Romancecar article for information on Odakyu Romancecar limited express services.
- Local trains stop at every station.
Legend:
- ● - all trains stop at this station; ■ - some trains stop at this station;｜- all trains pass; ○ - On Weekdays, Outbound for Isehara Evening Rush Hour only.
- "CS" - Commuter Semi Express; "CE" - Commuter Express "SE" - Semi-Express; "E" - Express; "RE" - Rapid Express
<ref>https://www.odakyu.jp/rail/ (This reference represents all of the "Stations" section.</ref>
HistoryEdit
The Odawara Express Railway Co. opened the entire line on 1 April 1927 in order to allow for the Emperor's family to travel on the line, though as duplication works were not completed until October that year, there was initial timetable and signalling issues.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Although primarily intended as a passenger line, gravel began to be hauled in 1930.
In 1942, the company was forcibly merged by the government with Tokyu Corporation and the line was named the Tokyu Odawara Line.<ref name=":0" /> Tokyu was broken up in 1948 and the line was transferred to the newly founded Odakyu Electric Railway Co.<ref name=":0" />
Through operation to the Hakone Tozan Railway's Hakone Tozan Line began in 1950 once dual gauge track was commissioned (the Hakone Tozan Line is Template:RailGauge, the Odawara Line Template:RailGauge).<ref name=":0" /> A connecting track was laid in 1955 to Matsuda Station on the Gotemba Line of the (then) Japanese National Railways, and limited express service through to the line started.<ref name=":0" /> To function as a bypass to central Tokyo, through service on the Eidan Subway (now Tokyo Metro) Chiyoda Line commenced in 1978 via Yoyogi-Uehara.<ref name=":0" />
Increasing traffic volume since the 1970s led to plans being formed in 1985 for a track upgrading project on the Odawara Line, though land acquisition issues stalled major track expansion work until construction began in 2013;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the project is being carried out between Yoyogi-Uehara and Mukōgaoka-Yūen, quadrupling the Odawara Line trackage and stacking the tracks underground, allowing for increased express services.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Originally a viaduct was planned but this was changed to underground tracks, and work on the tunnel between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa was completed in 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Former connecting linesEdit
- Setagaya-Daita Station: A Template:Track gauge gauge line electrified at 1,500 V DC operated to Template:STN on the Keio Inokashira Line between 1945 and 1952.Template:Cn
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia Template:Reflist