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Tobu Kinugawa Line

Tobu Kinugawa Line
Tobu Nikko Line (TN) symbol.svg
Kinutateiwa-Shingojo.JPG
Overview
Type Heavy rail
Locale
Termini Shimo-Imaichi
Shin-Fujiwara
Operation
Owner Tobu Railway
Technical
Line length 16.2 km (10.1 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification 1,500 V DC, overhead catenary

The Tobu Kinugawa Line (東武鬼怒川線 Tōbu Kinugawa-sen?) is a 16.2 km long Japanese railway line from Shimo-Imaichi Station to Shin-Fujiwara Station in . It is owned and operated by the private railway operator Tobu Railway. Its name was taken after Kinugawa Onsen hot spring resort area the line serves.

At Shimo-Imaichi Station it connects with the Tobu Nikko Line. At Shin-Fujiwara Station it connects with the Yagan Railway Aizu Kinugawa Line. Some trains goes beyond the Aizu Kinugawa Line terminus at Aizu-Kōgen Oze-guchi Station onto the Aizu Railway Aizu Line.

The line runs surcharged, reserved-seat limited express services from and to Asakusa and Shinjuku in Tokyo.

The whole line is electrified at 1,500 V DC, but it is single tracked except for a 0.8 km double-tracked section at Kinugawa-Onsen Station.

From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Tobu Kinugawa Line stations adopting the prefix "TN" in orange.

Tobu has borrowed former JNR Class C11 steam locomotive C11 207 from JR Hokkaido for use on the 12.4 km section of the Kinugawa Line between Shimo-Imaichi and Kinugawa-Onsen stations from 10 August 2017. Turntables will also be installed at Shimo-Imaichi and Kinugawa-Onsen to turn the locomotive in service.


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