Keihan Keishin Line

Keihan Keishin Line
File:Number prefix Otsu lines.svg
File:Keishin-Line-Series800.jpg A Keihan 800 series train on the street-running section
Overview
Native name	京阪京津線
Locale	Kyoto Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture
Termini	Biwako-Hamaōtsu Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae or Uzumasa Tenjingawa
Stations	7
Service
Operator(s)	Keihan Electric Railway
History
Opened	1912
Closed	1997 (Misasagi - Keishin-Sanjo)
Technical
Line length	7.5 km (4.7 mi)
Number of tracks	2
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Route map Map of the Keihan Otsu Lines

The Keishin Line (京津線, Keishin-sen) is an interurban partially-street running railway line in Japan operated by the private railway operator Keihan Electric Railway. The 7.5 km (4.7 mi) line connects Misasagi Station in Kyoto and Biwako-Hamaōtsu Station in the neighbouring city of Ōtsu.

Train service

Except trains between Shinomiya Station and Hamaōtsu Station in early morning and late night, all trains go directly from Hamaōtsu Station to Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae Station or Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tōzai Line. During off peak hours, the line operates every 20 minutes.

Stations and connecting lines

File:Railway map around Kyoto City (Keishin Line).png

Railway map around Keishin Line

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)	Transfers	Location
Operations continue to Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tōzai Line.
T08	Misasagi	御陵	0.0	File:Subway KyotoTozai.svg Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line (through trains)	Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
OT31	Keihan Yamashina	京阪山科	1.5	JR West (Yamashina Station)  A  Tōkaidō Line (Biwako Line)  B  Kosei Line File:Subway KyotoTozai.svg Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai Line (T07: Yamashina Station)
OT32	Shinomiya	四宮	2.1
OT33	Oiwake	追分	3.4		Ōtsu, Shiga
OT34	Ōtani	大谷	5.0
OT35	Kamisakaemachi	上栄町	6.7
OT12	Biwako-Hamaōtsu	びわ湖浜大津	7.5	■ Keihan Ishiyama Sakamoto Line

Abandoned stations

• Midorigaoka Undōjō-mae: Shinomiya - Oiwake (extra station, abandoned in 1942)
• Kamisekidera: Ōtani - Kamisakaemachi (abandoned on August 15, 1971)
• Fudanotsuji: Kamisakaemachi - Biwako-Hamaōtsu (abandoned on October 1, 1946)

File:Keihan 80.jpg

Keihan 80 Series interurban train operating on the streetrunning section in Kyoto before diversion into the Tozai Subway Line.

Abandoned section

The station list is as of 1997 before the street running section was abandoned due to replacement by the Tōzai Line subway. It also lists the corresponding subway stations that replaced the Keishin Line stations.

Station	Connection / note	Replaced by	Location
Keishin-Sanjō	Keihan Main Line, Keihan Ōtō Line	Sanjō-Keihan	Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto
Higashiyama-Sanjō		Higashiyama
Heianjingū-mae	Abandoned in 1944
Okazakimichi	Abandoned in 1931
Keage		Keage
Kujōyama			Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
Hinooka		Misasagi
Misasagi

Rolling stock

• Keihan 800 series, four-car EMUs

History

The line was built in 1912 (dual track electrified at 600 V DC) to connect the city centers of Kyoto and Ōtsu by electric streetcars, as the steam-powered Tōkaidō Main Line was an indirect route between the two cities before its realignment in 1921. The busiest section of the line, between Keishin-Sanjō Station and Misasagi Station, was replaced in 1997 by the Kyoto Subway Tōzai Line, and the voltage increased to 1,500 V DC in conjunction with this project. One of the aims of the realignment was to move the tracks underground in the Kyoto area, in order to remove the former alignment along public roads. The line retains its public road alignment in Ōtsu.

References

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