Shizuoka Freight Station (Container station)

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This is Shizuoka freight station on the Toukaido main line about mid way between Tokyo and Osaka.  You may recognize the name Shizuoka as the home to the Shizuoka Hobby Show each May.

 

Shizuoka is the major green tea harvest region in Japan and a major navel orange growing region. It was also in Shizouka that the post-war hobby industry emerged with the production of wooden aircraft models. Today Tamiya, Fujimi, Hasegawa, Aoshima (the parent of HWJ) and Bandai all have facilities in Shizuoka.

 

http://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/a_foreign/english/no1/index.html

 

The Shizuoka Freight Terminal is a local freight station along the Toukaido main line. This link has an interesting sequence of photos of a train arriving in the station taken from a nearby bridge that shakes with the passing of each Shinkansen.  

 

http://www5e.biglobe.ne.jp/~tec300/5PhotoLocal/freight.htm

 

Stopping positions are numbered and identified on the platform (just like at some passenger stations).  Not that there is overhead wires over the loading line!!  The forklifts used  have limited height lifting ability as they move containers under the  live overhead.

 

JRF notes how its container trains stop only for a few minutes at many stations and then move on without any shunting.

 

Wikipedia Commons photos:      http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shizuoka_Freight_Station

 

Japanese language Wikipedia links.

 

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9D%80%E7%99%BA%E7%B7%9A%E8%8D%B7%E5%BD%B9%E6%96%B9%E5%BC%8F

 

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%99%E5%B2%A1%E8%B2%A8%E7%89%A9%E9%A7%85

 

A few Shizuoka area freight trains.