The Banshū Railway (播州鉄道, Banshū Tetsudō) opened the line from 1916 to 1917. The railway was acquired by the Bantan Railway (播丹鉄道, Bantan Tetsudō) in 1923 and nationalised in 1943 together with other Bantan Railway lines, i.e. the Kakogawa Line, the Takasago Line, the Kajiya Line and the Hōjō Line.[1]
The majority of commuters used Kobe Electric Railway's (Shintetsu) Ao Line to get to Kobe instead of the Miki–Kakogawa Line route. As a result, Miki Railway had been unable to justify continued financial support from the city. On March 1, 2007, the Miki City Council officially decided to abandon the line with the company agreeing on April 26, 2007. The line was closed on April 1, 2008.[3] This was the fourth third-sector railway operator to cease operations, and the fifth third-sector line closed.
This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 171. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^Bushell, Chris, ed. (2006). Railway Directory 2006 (111th ed.). Reed Business Information. p. 122. ISBN0-617-01031-5.
^"三木鉄道ミキ300-105が樽見鉄道へ" [Miki Railway 300-series unit 105 transferred to Tarumi Railway]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). 12 December 2008. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
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