Tsuruga Station (敦賀駅, Tsuruga-eki) is a railway station in the city of Tsuruga, Fukui, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It is served by the Hokuriku Main Line and the Obama Line. A freight-only branch Line known as the Tsuruga Port Line operated by JR Freight also runs from this station.
Lines
Tsuruga Station is served by the Hokuriku Main Line and is located 45.9 kilometres (28.5 miles) from the terminus of the line at Maibara. Trains of the Kosei Line also continue past their nominal terminus at Ōmi-Shiotsu to terminate at this station. The station is also a terminus of the 84.3-kilometre (52.4-mile) Obama Line to Higashi-Maizuru.
Tsuruga is scheduled to become a station on the high-speed Hokuriku Shinkansen line when the extension west of Kanazawa opens on 16 March 2024.[1]
Station layout
The platforms in March 2007
The station has three island platforms serving seven tracks. It has a "Midori no Madoguchi" staffed ticket office. The station platforms were rebuilt in December 2012, while a new station building was completed at the end of 2013. The overhead line power supply changes between 1,500 V DC and 20 kV AC (60 Hz) at this station (Hokuriku Main Line only).
Tsuruga Station opened on 10 March 1882.[2] With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the station came under the control of JR West.[3]
Station numbering was introduced in March 2018 with Tsuruga being assigned station number JR-A01 for the Hokuriku Main Line and JR-B08 for the Kosei Line.[4][5]
Future plans
From October 2014, a gauge-changing test track was scheduled to be built next to the station on the site of the former motive power depot. The 180 m long test track will be used to test an experimental variable-gauge bogie, which can be changed from 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) to 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) and vice versa. The aim is to prove durability in cold and snowy conditions with a view to using the variable-gauge Gauge Change Train on through services between the standard-gauge Hokuriku Shinkansen and narrow-gauge Hokuriku Main Line in the future.[6]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 3,610 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).[7]
^日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 [JNR Station Directory]. Japan: Japanese National Railways. 1985. p. 43. ISBN4-533-00503-9.
^Ishino, Tetsu, ed. (1998). 停車場変遷大辞典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory - JNR/JR]. Vol. II. Japan: JTB. p. 132. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^"近畿エリアの12路線 のべ300駅に「駅ナンバー」を導入します！" ["Station numbers" will be introduced at a total of 300 stations on 12 lines in the Kinki area!]. westjr.co.jp (in Japanese). 20 July 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^"「駅ナンバー」一覧表" ["Station number" list] (PDF). westjr.co.jp (in Japanese). 20 July 2016. Archived from the original(PDF) on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^"フリーゲージトレイン実験線を開設、JR西" [JR West to build a Gauge Change Train test track]. Tetsudo.com (in Japanese). Japan: Asahi Interactive Inc. 18 September 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
^駅別JR貨客輸送状況(1日平均) [Station passenger figures (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: Fukui Prefectural Government. 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
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