Kotoden in the 1990s

[bill937ca]

To Japanese train fans the Kotoden was once known as the train museum.  This week I came across a Kotoden roster dated 07/1987. The newest train in the fleet was 41 years old and many trains dated from the 1920s.  The oldest dated from 1913.

 

The Takamatsu-Kotohira Electric Railway as it is legally known is the result of a series of mergers years ago. The primary traffic generator is a shrine at Kotohira. The first video was taken in 1997 or 1998. It shows the inner terminal near the harbor where the Kotoden runs along side the moat of the Takamatsu Castle.

 

Video by RVDRV

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by bill937ca

[bill937ca]

Kotoden has three lines. The Kotohira line, the Nagao line and the Shido line. All three lines meet at Kotoden-Kawaramachi Station. At this time Shido line trains came into the station, changed ends and then headed off to either the harbor terminal or out on the Shido line. Today all this is inside a building destroying its railfan charm and the Shido line is stub ended.

 

Video by koppel1go

 

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by bill937ca

[Nick_Burman]

17 hours ago, bill937ca said:

Today all this is inside a building destroying its railfan charm and the Shido line is stub ended.

 

And Kotoden shot itself in the foot building it. Not only they had to cut the Shido line connection to the rest of the system to allow the building to be built, but thy also went bankrupt in the process.

 

Cheers Nicholas

[bill937ca]

A set of photos from the summer of 1976.

 

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