Japanese terminal station

[disturbman]

I'm willing to scratch build and kit bash a terminal station for my Project Party Project and I'm currently searching for photos and plans of such stations. I'm very interested to see how the tracks end in Japan. I have no idea what type of buffers they use and if they use any at all. The whole subject is very obscure to me since people prefer to take photos of train than of tracks end.

 

I'm looking at Takamatsu-eki and Aizu Wakamatsu-eki in google but for the moment I can't find what I'm looking for. If someone has a link, other ideas of stations or, even better, photos to show I would be most pleased and thankfull.

[bill937ca]

This is a good page to check out.  It has links to JR and private railways. There are almost as many variaitons as they're are railways.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Track_maps_of_stations_in_Japan

 

This is Ueno station.  Note two levels are shown.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JNR_Ueno_station_track_map_1985.svg

 

Shinjuku Station

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JR_Shinjuku_station_track_map_2010.svg

 

Gifu Station has island platforms with tracks going through the station and ending in stubs with double crossovers.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_JR-C_Gifu_Station.svg

 

Problem with JR is that the lines go on and on and many terminals are through stations that are terminals in name only.

 

Kintetsu has several terminals.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_track_map_of_Uehonmachi_station.svg

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Kintetsu_Nagoya_Station.svg

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Kintetsu_Yoshino_Station.svg

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Kintetsu_between_Osaka-Uehommachi_and_Fuse_Station1977.svg

 

Kintetsu Ujiyamada Station has through tracks with a stub terminal along side.  It is near an important Shrine and still gets heavy traffic at times.  At one time it was the end of the line and the station itself is much larger than a through station requires.  It's an interesting prototype for a loop layout. We had a thread on this station a couple of months ago.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Kintetsu_Ujiyamada_Station.svg

 

http://www.jnsforum.com/index.php/topic,1431.msg15553.html#msg15553

 

Meitetsu Shin-Kani station with a double line and a single track feeding into the same terminal.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Meitetsu_Shin_Kani_Station.svg

 

Shin-Gifu is interesting because of the double track main narrowing down to a single track bottleneck before entering the four track terminal.  Tracks 5 and 6 in a separate terminal may be the abandoned Gifu interurban lines.

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Meitetsu_Gifu_Station.svg

 

Nankai Namba Station

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nankai_Namba_station_track_map.svg

 

Tobu Kashiwa Station

 

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rail_Tracks_map_Tobu_Kashiwa_Station.svg

[disturbman]

Nice ressources! Thanks Bill.

 

I can see that I missleaded myself here. No I must find photos of the buffers.

[marknewton]

Vincent, have a look at these pages, you'll find what you want here.

 

http://homepage2.nifty.com/tomm/railscape/deadend/deadend-0.htm

 

These pages show typical buffer stops. The distinctive cross-shaped sign seems to be common throughout Japan, on JR and private lines alike.

 

http://www.geocities.co.jp/vzm05304/deadend/402/kumamoto/kumamoto-kounai11.htm

 

http://www.geocities.co.jp/vzm05304/deadend/402/kumamoto/kumamoto-kounai12.htm

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.