Tobu Nikko

[Nick_Burman]

http://umemado.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/blog-post_22.html

http://umemado.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/blog-post_16.html

http://umemado.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/blog-post_13.html

http://umemado.blogspot.com.br/2015/06/1.html

 

 

From the perennial source... more pictures of Tobu's Nikko tramway ops. Notice ex-Usui Pass rack loco and nice pictures of freight trains going up Nikko's main drag - a 6% grade! The intresting bit is the map showing arrangements at Nikko station, with the loop serving both JNR and Tobu Nikko, the car barn and the freight connection.

 

 

Cheers NB

[kvp]

If i'm seeing it right, currently the bus terminal/car park is located in place of the car barn and the oddly angled building at the JR station was along the freight connection, while the small side street between the JR and Tobu stations were the small street where the top part of the loop ran. So this means a whole city block is missing (converted into the bus/car park).

 

ps: I think the picture location number 4 (with the rack loco) is not quite back there, over the JR tracks, but just at the delta of the car barn, which means an extra track (and turnout) was going to the right, making the Tobu station part of the loop fully double track. Also the 1963 picture doesn't have the delta, while the 1968 one has it. (along with that extra turnout before the small building).

[Nick_Burman]

If i'm seeing it right, currently the bus terminal/car park is located in place of the car barn and the oddly angled building at the JR station was along the freight connection, while the small side street between the JR and Tobu stations were the small street where the top part of the loop ran. So this means a whole city block is missing (converted into the bus/car park).

 

ps: I think the picture location number 4 (with the rack loco) is not quite back there, over the JR tracks, but just at the delta of the car barn, which means an extra track (and turnout) was going to the right, making the Tobu station part of the loop fully double track. Also the 1963 picture doesn't have the delta, while the 1968 one has it. (along with that extra turnout before the small building).

 

You are right - the area where the barn used to be has been completely obliterated to make way for the car park/bus terminal.

 

As for the rack loco picture, I wonder if the map isn't a bit distorted - the loco is definively standing on the track leading into the Tobu main line/JNR Nikko yard.

 

 

Cheers NB

[kvp]

As for the rack loco picture, I wonder if the map isn't a bit distorted - the loco is definively standing on the track leading into the Tobu main line/JNR Nikko yard.

It's a possibility, but then the bridge over the JNR tracks would have to be between the right track, which is the loop (with the end of the carbarn delta visible) and the track going off from the left track. The stones on the left are continous, which could mean the loco is standing before the bridge and the turnout we see is not the one that branches off to the Tobu and JNR yards, but one near the delta of the car barn. So i think picture 4 might be exactly where the number 4 is and there was an extra turnout there creating a runaround for freights. The bridge could be behind the small building. (there is a small building right there on the current google map). Also if my assumption is right, the stones on the left form the end of the rightmost Tobu platform and the current exit signals are located where we see them on the old photo.

ps: Could you ask the creator of the site if this assumption has any truth in it?

[ToniBabelony]

It's a possibility, but then the bridge over the JNR tracks would have to be between the right track, which is the loop (with the end of the carbarn delta visible) and the track going off from the left track.

Is there a bridge?

[Densha]

A few weeks ago the Tobu Nikko tramway already caught my attention again and I was more fascinated by it more than before. Didn't really have much time to research much, nor have time to do so either now actually. ^^"

 

Combined electric streetcar passenger/freight traffic is always interesting. I'd also like a model of the articulated tram. Tomytec? (we also desperately need a normal single-articulated and double-articulated chassis with jacobs bogies anyway)

[Nick_Burman]

Is there a bridge?

 

The Tobu station entrance tracks sit directly over the JR tracks.

 

 

Cheers NB

[Nick_Burman]

A few weeks ago the Tobu Nikko tramway already caught my attention again and I was more fascinated by it more than before. Didn't really have much time to research much, nor have time to do so either now actually. ^^"

 

Combined electric streetcar passenger/freight traffic is always interesting. I'd also like a model of the articulated tram. Tomytec? (we also desperately need a normal single-articulated and double-articulated chassis with jacobs bogies anyway)

 

Tomytec did the 100 series single body trolleys - I have one, it's very nice.

 

 

Cheers NB

[Nick_Burman]

ps: Could you ask the creator of the site if this assumption has any truth in it?

 

Crash course in Japanese anyone? :-)

 

 

Cheers NB

[ToniBabelony]

And here is another excellent blog entry on the Tōbu Nikko Kidō: http://umemado.blogspot.jp/2015/07/blog-post.html

 

Note the last two pictures where there is no pavement, but still sees some form of road traffic, albeit probably not tourism related. All in all, this line interests me more and more. Not necessarily because it is in beautiful Nikko, but also because of the variety of operations, rolling stock and livery. It's a very inspiring phenomenon.

[marknewton]

Another blog featuring Nikko:

 

http://rail.hobidas.com/blog/natori/archives/2015/06/22_11.html

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.