Higashi-Kokura Freight Terminal

Higashi-Kokura Freight Terminal (東小倉駅, Higashi-Kokura-eki) is a freight terminal on the Kagoshima Main Line in Kokurakita-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan, operated by Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight). Presently it handles no trains.

History

The terminal was originally a station serving both passenger and freight trains. It opened on April 1, 1915, as the terminal of the Kokura Railway, the predecessor of the Hitahikosan Line. When the Japanese Government Railways purchased the Kokura Railway on May 1, 1943, the station was reestablished on the Kagoshima Main Line as a junction of the two lines, but the station served no passenger trains on the Kagoshima Main Line. The passenger service at the station was ceased on November 19, 1956, as the section between Higashi-Kokura and Ishida on the Hitahikosan Line ceased to operate passenger trains.

Although the freight-only section of the Hitahikosan Line was closed on October 1, 1962, the terminal continued the freight operation on the Kagoshima Main Line until March 23, 2002 when the new Kitakyūshū Freight Terminal opened. The station has not been officially closed.

References

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) II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 673, 674, 767. ISBN 4533029809.

Stations of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line

Mojikō–Yatsushiro	Mojiko Komorie Moji Kitakyushu Freight Terminal Higashi-Kokura Freight Terminal Kokura Nishi-Kokura Hama-Kokura Freight Terminal Kyushukodaimae Tobata Edamitsu Space World Yahata Kurosaki Jinnoharu Orio Mizumaki Ongagawa Ebitsu Kyoikudaimae Akama Togo Higashi-Fukuma Fukuma Chidori Koga Shishibu Shingu-Chuo Fukkodaimae Kyusandaimae Kashii Chihaya Chihaya Yard Hakozaki Yoshizuka Hakata Takeshita Sasabaru Minami-Fukuoka Kasuga Onojo Mizuki Tofurominami Futsukaichi Tenpaizan Haruda Keyakidai Kiyama Yayoigaoka Tashiro Tosu Hizen-Asahi Kurume Araki Nishimuta Hainuzuka Chikugo-Funagoya Setaka Minami-Setaka Wataze Yoshino Ginsui Omuta Arao Minami-Arao Nagasu Onoshimo Tamana Higo-Ikura Konoha Tabaruzaka Ueki Nishisato Sojodaigakumae Kami-Kumamoto Kumamoto (Nishi-Kumamoto) Kawashiri Tomiai Uto Matsubase Ogawa Arisa Sencho Shin-Yatsushiro Yatsushiro

Sendai–Kagoshima	Sendai Kumanojo Kobanchaya Kushikino Kamimuragakuenmae Ichiki Yunomoto Higashi-Ichiki Ijuin Satsuma-Matsumoto Kami-Ijuin Hiroki Kagoshima-Chuo Kagoshima

Freight Branch	Kashii Chihaya Yard

Coordinates: 33°53′16″N 130°53′58″E / 33.887719°N 130.899389°E / 33.887719; 130.899389

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