Okuma Orbit -Wikipedia

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Okuma orbit
Route total extension 2.23 km
Gauge 914 mm
Stops, facilities, connection routes (at the time of abolition)
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Okuma orbit (Okumaki Dodo) is a carriage trajectory that connects the city from Okuma Station on the Chikucho Main Line (later Uyamada Line, currently abolished) in Okuma -cho, Kaho -gun, Kaho -gun, Fukuoka Prefecture. It is an operating company. It was abolished by car development.

Route data [ edit ]

  • Route distance: Okuma Station -Okuma Town (Sadatetsu) 2.23km
  • Number of stations: 2 (as of abolition, no intermediate station)
    • The next station name is described on the ticket (unknown timing): Okuma Station, Kamate, Sadatetsu, Okuma
  • Gauge: 914mm = 3ft
  • Double track section: None (single -line line)
  • Electrification section: None (non -electrified entire line)
  • Dynamics: Horseli

Established Okuma Orbit in Okuma Town due to the launch of local volunteers. The carriage trajectory to connect the Chikuho Main Line Okuma Station and the city area of ​​Okuma -cho was opened. It was the only transportation connecting the town and the station.

However, at the end of the Taisho era, a shared bus appeared. In the early Showa era, Okuma Taxi also opened and became a resident’s foot. In this situation, the carriage trajectory was drastically reduced, and it was finally abolished and became a bus company. [first] 。 After that, it operated by a shared bus from Okuma Station to Okuma Town to Kuwano in Saki. The bus was six round trips to Kuwano per day and 11 round trips to Okuma Town. It is said that the shared bus company was eventually merged into the West Japan Railway.

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Transportation / balance results [ edit ]

year Passengers (people) Income (yen) Expenditure (yen) Gain (yen) Lawn by interest (yen) Other benefit (yen) Other losses (yen)
1924 (Dazheng 13) 31,957 3.242 2.5501 741 211 210
1925 (Dazheng 14) 96,909 8,120 9,310 ▲ 1,190 1.194 1.245
1926 (Showa) 136,218 8.549 7,403 1.146 628 103
1927 (Showa 2) 130,653 8.856 7,887 969 541 472
1928 (Showa 3) 118,856 9,453 7,954 1,499 150 Auto and carriage 3,352 Amitative 3,055
1929 (Showa 4) 111,162 8,509 7,847 662 360 Car 1,631
1930 (Showa 5) 67,899 4,439 4.052 387 120 Car 5,738
1931 (Showa 6) 10,553 823 3,666 ▲ 2,843 1.764 Car 3,723
1932 (Showa 7) 26,521 846 5,586 ▲ 4,740 1.764 Car 4,925
  • In 1924-1925, the Ministry of Railway Railway Statistical Materials, and in 1926, railway statistical materials, in 1933, the sales report has not arrived.
  • It was no delivery from beginning to end.

Operation status [ edit ]

The passenger car owns two cars with a 16 -seater one. There was no cargo handling. It is said that he moved to a carriage from Okuma -cho.

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references [ edit ]

  • “Kaho Town Magazine” 1983, 96-100 pages
  • “Under the Fukuoka Prefecture Encyclopedia” Nishi-Nihon Shimbun, 1982, 433-437 Pages in charge of Yoshitada Taniguchi
  • Keisuke Imao “Nippon Railway Travel Map Book No. 12 Kyushu Okinawa” Shinchosha, 2009
  • Kazui Kamei “Map and Railway 17” “Railway Historical Materials” NO48 November 1987, the track was not written on the “Dazaifu” map in 1952. (Fill in)
  • Yasuo Wakuda “Private Railway History Handbook” Electrical Car Study Group, page 177

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