Tachikawa Station has an interesting freight train transfer [Chuo Main Line] Tachikawa Station Includes Diagram

[bill937ca]

Tachikawa Station is a terminal station on the Chuo Main Line, Ome Line, and Nambu Line, with many return trains. It is an important terminal and base station for passenger transportation, but it is also a node and junction for freight trains. You can see the scene where a freight train going through the Nambu Line ←→ Chuo Main Line twists and turns at a level crossing. In addition, passenger trains (such as the Ome Express) that run directly from the Chuo Main Line to the Ome Line go to Nishi-Tachikawa Station via a connecting line (official name: Ome Shunt Line) to avoid level crossings. Freight trains and special trains that run through the Nambu Line ←→ Ome Line also pass through the Ome Junction Line. Including Nishi-Tachikawa station, it has become an interesting track wiring. Tachikawa Station's track layout is complicated, but if you break it down by line, you can think of the Ome Line as 1 platform and 2 tracks, the Chuo Main Line as 2 platforms and 4 tracks, and the Nambu Line as 1 platform and 2 tracks. (Because there are direct trains and inbound trains, the passenger platform platform is not unified by route. Please be careful.) As an aside, the destinations of the freight trains running on the Chuo Main Line are Hachioji Station (Tokyo) and Ryuo. Station (Yamanashi Prefecture), Minami-Matsumoto Station (Nagano Prefecture), Sakaki Station (Nagano Prefecture), etc. Transportation of petroleum products and container cargo come and go. Freight trains that run on the Ome Line include a fuel transport train that connects Haijima Station and Anzen Station (commonly known as "Kometan". It operates mainly on Tuesdays and Thursdays.) It transports fuel to US military bases. In addition, the freight train for limestone transportation that was running on the Ome Line has already been abolished. [playback time index]

 

00:00beginning

0:10Wiring diagram of Tachikawa station (including Nishi-Tachikawa station)

1:40Route from Chuo Main Line to Ome Line (via Ome Shunt Line)

3:13Ome Line→Chuo Main Line

3:28point switching

4:26Freight train routing and wiring diagram

9:49Forwarding freight trains on both lines

14:19Freight train "Kometan" connecting Haijima Station and Anzen Station

15:01"Kometan" bound for Anzen Station, which transfers at Nishitachikawa Station

19:22Freight train bound for Anzen Station departing from Tachikawa Station

20:27Transfer of special train "Holiday Rapid Atami"

22:38Front view of Nambu Line for Tachikawa (Nishikunitachi → Tachikawa)

23:24Front view of the Ome Line bound for Tachikawa (Nishi-Tachikawa → Tachikawa)

 

Tachikawa station is served by Chuo Main Line, Ome Line and Nambu Line. Both passenger and freight trains are routed to the destination railroad tracks. Therefore, railroad tracks are complex.

 

 

[bikkuri bahn]

This youtuber, Shio Vanilla, has a lot of videos of this sort, looking at railway junctions, switchwork and the like.  Good for those of us more into operations (Railway Journal readers) than rolling stock (Tetsudo Fan readers). 

Edited December 11, 2022 by bikkuri bahn

[railsquid]

1 hour ago, bill937ca said:

commonly known as "Kometan".

 

FWIW this is "Beitan" (米タン), 米/bei as in 米国 / Beikoku / (US of) America, and the base in question is Yokota, which has a somewhat interesting shunting operation as the line into the base crosses the Seibu Haijima Line tracks. End to end video here:

 

 

(Seibu line crossing at about 15:40).