Train Stoppage at Shinjuku

[gmat]

On Wednesday, Feb. 16, something happened at Akabane Station and the Tokaido Line and Saiko Line was affected for about half an hour and longer.

If anyone knows what was the cause, please let me know.

 

Rinkai/Saiko Line train on track 4. Most of the passengers had left the train to seek alternate means of traveling to their destinations.

 

Utsunomiya Line train stopped at the same time just before the station.

 

 

The sign with the large Kanji says stopped.

 

The Utsunomiya Line train on track 1 heading south wasn't affected.

 

To allow the passengers on the standing trains to disembark, the Saikyo Line train was moved out. It is now an Out Of Service train.

 

 

 

Destination sign.

 

The same sign in Japanese. The red kanji says "late 10 minutes."

 

The Utsunomia Line arrives at platform 4.

 

The number of trains on the line appeared to be reduced for the rest of the morning. The other lines at Shinjuku seemed largely unaffected. The Chuo trains approaching from the south seemed to often pause just outside the station. This was probably due to the increased number of passengers trying to get on the train. The morning diesels heading north and south on the Tokaido line came at their usual time.

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[risingsun]

It looks to me like the train needed maintenance of some sort. The would remove passengers for a bomb threat but you would see lots of police and it is likely more trains on the line would be shut down as well. There was probably a safety hazard and the train was removed for the day so that it could be fixed.

[westfalen]

I think as Grant says, the delay was at Akabane station and the train he photographed at Shinjuku had just been stopped there rather than moving up to the next signal and being stranded full of passengers between stations. We had a situation here in Brisbane late last night where rocks and debris were placed on the tracks and trains were stopped at three or four stations either side until the situation was rectified.

[bikkuri bahn]

(cause)

There was a male pedestrian that was struck and killed at a grade crossing located on the Saikyo line between Akabane and Jujo station, at approx. 8:30am.  The train involved was a 10 car unit originating in Kawagoe and bound for Shin-Kiba. 6 Saikyo Line trains were annuled, and 53,000 commuters were affected.

 

report (Japanese):

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/affairs/news/110216/dst11021610100004-n1.htm

[bikkuri bahn]

The morning diesels heading north and south on the Tokaido line came at their usual time.

 

I'm intrigued.  Could you get some pics of these??

[gmat]

I've shot the two diesels comiing through Shinjuku many times. These are from the day of the stoppage and yesterday.

The !0:55 northbound diesel is an EF65, but the day of the accident, it was replaced by an EF210. Usually the southbound one at 12:05 or so is the EH-500 Kintaro. For some reason, yesterday it was about 10 minutes late and replaced by an RF65. Very rarely one might not appear.

The following two are from the day of the stoppage.

EF201-142, taken from platform 4.

EH500-3 taken from platform 7.

 

The following three were taken yesterday.

EF65-1069 taken at the southern tip of platform 5/6.

 

 

EF65-1057 taken from platform 7.

 

My Photobucket account is 97% full so I'll either have to do some purging or go pro.

 

Best wishes,

Grant

[bikkuri bahn]

Thanks Grant.  I didn't know about the freights running through Shinjuku in daytime.  I'll have to check my freight timetable to see their origin/destination.