Operations At Omiya Station

[Jcarlton]

Operations at Omiya Station in what looks like the early 1970's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpjSeJdAKtE

[bikkuri bahn]

*would be early 1980's, note the Tohoku Shinkansen in operation, and viaduct construction in the Tokyo direction.

Interesting the waybills(?) attached to the freight cars:

5:00- shipment of rice from Oogawara (Miyagi) to Hakata Port.

5:03- shipment (chemicals?) from Koriyama Freight Terminal to Minamata in Kyushu.

5:06- shipment of rice from Mizusawa (Iwate) to Yokosuka.

Edited May 8, 2015 by bikkuri bahn

[Sacto1985]

Interestingly, the original plan for the Jōetsu Shinkansen (and likely what is today's Hokuriku Shinkansen) was to have line go from Omiya on a routing that would end at Shinjuku Station. I think that idea was abandoned due the cost of getting the right of way; it was decided to have all Shinkansen services end at Tokyo Station, hence the reason why they built the Shinkansen line following much of the already available JNR right of way to Ueno and Tokyo Stations. Mind you, that new Shinkansen line cut off a lot of train service between Tokyo and Ueno Stations, a situation that was not rectified until the Ueno-Tokyo Line opened a few months ago.

[miyakoji]

Hmmm, what are they trying to tell me at 1:36?

[bikkuri bahn]

The hump yard operation is a node for nationwide freight car distribution...

[miyakoji]

no no, the signal :)

[ToniBabelony]

no no, the signal :)

F = track number? 普通? "Local"?

U = Utsunomiya? Urawa? Utsube?

 

Maybe?

[miyakoji]

Right, "F U". Get it? . Sorry :(