What is this facility?

[katoftw]

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@34.7503992,135.5750526,636m/data=!3m1!1e3

 

Lots of rails and buildings.  But no rail access.

[Taxman]

Hi Kato,

 

I think I found the rail access, if you go south from the double crossover it appears that there are no buffers on that track and they go into a tunnel.  Looking at the rolling stock and layouts, I suspect it is a maintenance yard, perhaps for Osaka Subway?

 

Playing armchair railfan here though :)

[Ronny]

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@34.7496637,135.5760345,119a,20y,180h,41.8t/data=!3m1!1e3

I find the exit

[Sacto1985]

It's the rolling stock storage yard for the Osaka Subway trains operating on the Tanimachi Line. Dainichi Station, the easternmost station on this line, is right next to this yard.

 

(EDIT: the official name of that depot is the Osaka Municipal Transportation Bureau Dainichi Inspection Depot (大阪市交通局大日検車場))

Edited July 10, 2016 by Sacto1985

[katoftw]

Thanks to all that responded.

[ToniBabelony]

Interesting! It seems that many metro systems have overground maintenance facilities like these with an underground access route. Quickly from the top of my head in the Tokyo area, the combined Toei Asakusa/Oedo line Magome facility, the Marunouchi line Nakano facility, and the Ginza line Ueno facility spring to mind.

[railsquid]

Chiyoda line/Kita-Ayase too.

 

OTOH IIRC the Tozai line has an entirely underground depot with housing built on top? Or maybe the Yurakocho line? Or both?

[ToniBabelony]

Chiyoda line/Kita-Ayase too.

 

IIRC the Kita-Ayase depot is entirely elevated and has an elevated access line which is served by three-car trains from the 05 Series via the Kita-Ayase Branch Line (北綾瀬支線).

[kvp]

The Gyotoku depot of the Tozai line seems to be above ground.

[ToniBabelony]

The Kyōto Municipal Subway Daigo Depot of the Tōzai line seems to be entirely underground: http://gateway2ny.com/kyoto/2014/11/post-161.html That Tōzai line is also used by the Keihan 800 Series most of us love so dearly. :)

Edited July 10, 2016 by Kabutoni

[Das Steinkopf]

The Kōbe Municipal Subway Daigo Depot of the Tōzai line seems to be entirely underground: http://gateway2ny.com/kyoto/2014/11/post-161.html That Tōzai line is also used by the Keihan 800 Series most of us love so dearly. :)

Well who could resist that baby blue.

[Kitayama]

The Kōbe Municipal Subway Daigo Depot of the Tōzai line seems to be entirely underground: http://gateway2ny.com/kyoto/2014/11/post-161.html That Tōzai line is also used by the Keihan 800 Series most of us love so dearly. :)

Hmm... I think it is Kyoto, not Kobe.

[ToniBabelony]

Hmm... I think it is Kyoto, not Kobe.

 

Whoops, my mistake! xD

[railsquid]

IIRC the Kita-Ayase depot is entirely elevated and has an elevated access line which is served by three-car trains from the 05 Series via the Kita-Ayase Branch Line (北綾瀬支線).

 

Whoops, I had reduced the criteria to "below-ground line with above-ground depot".

 

Which reminds me, somewhere recently (either on TV or in a magazine), I saw a report on Tokyo Metro's training centre, which has two full-length (IIRC) fake stations.

[bikkuri bahn]

Which reminds me, somewhere recently (either on TV or in a magazine), I saw a report on Tokyo Metro's training centre, which has two full-length (IIRC) fake stations.

Perhaps this facility?

 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bU-690c8HMk

[railsquid]

Yup, dat's the one.

[Sacto1985]

The deport just north of Kita-Ayase Station on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line is probably the easiest to find of the Tokyo Metro Subway train depots. Mind you, I believe you have to change trains at Ayase Station to a separate train just to reach Kita-Ayase, since Chiyoda Line subway trains either terminate at Ayase Station or continue on via the all-local service part of the JR East Jōban Line all the way to Toride Station, the operational north end of 1,500 V DC overhead power service on that line.