Kurobe Gorge Railway

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The Kurobe Gorge Railway (??????????, Kurobe Ky?koku Tetsud? Kabushiki Kaisha), or Kurotetsu (??) for short, is a private, 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway company operating the Kurobe Gorge Main Line along the Kurobe River in the Kurobe gorge area of Toyama Prefecture, Japan. The railway was built to serve the construction of the Kurobe dam for the Kansai Electric Power Company, which was completed in 1963; Kurotetsu was spun off from the power company in June 1971, but remains a wholly owned subsidiary. At its terminus, the Main Line links to Kurobe Seny? Railway, which is not open to general public.

In 2008 the company operated 27 locomotives, 138 passenger carriages and 322 freight wagons.

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History

The Unazuki - Nekomata section opened in 1926, electrified at 600 VDC and was extended to Keyakidaira in 1937.

The passenger service started in 1953.

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Equipment

Electric locomotives

• EB class (Nos. 1-3, 5-7): withdrawn from service in 1984.
• ED class (Nos. 8-11): 9-11 survive.
• EDS class (Nos. 13, 15-17): No. 13 survives.
• EDM class (Nos. 22, 23, 30-32)
• EDR class (Nos. 17-21,24-29,33)
• EHR class (Nos. 101, 102)

Battery electric locomotives

• BB class (Nos. 1,2)

Diesel locomotives

• DB class (No. 11): withdrawn 1985
• DD21: withdrawn 1979
• DD22, DD23: DD23 withdrawn 2000
• DD24

Passenger cars

• Ha (?) class: 2-axle open car.
• 1000 class: open car
• 2000 class: heated car with fixed, widthwise seats, extra charge to ride
• 2500 class: heated car with reversible seats so that passengers can always ride facing forward, extra charge to ride
• 2800 class: lounge car, heated, reversible seats, extra charge to ride
• 3000 class: panoramic observation car, extra charge to ride

Freight cars

• wa (?) class (boxcar)
• oshi (??) class depressed center flatcar
• muchi (??) class flatcar
• nachi (??) class flatcar
• ochi (??) class flatcar
• oto (??) class gondola
• to (?) class gondola
• chi (?) class flatcar
• shi (?) class depressed center flatcar

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Stations

All stations are in Kurobe, Toyama.

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See also

• List of railway lines in Japan

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References

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

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External links

• Official website

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