Kyushu

[Nick_Burman]

Hi all,

 

I would like to know if the fellow members of this forum could point me out a few web addresses for homepages about railways in Kyushu, past and present.

 

 

Cheers NB

[Fenway Park]

Hi Nick

 

As Kyushu is my favoured area of Japan, I have a list of many web sites for the 1960 - 1975 era. As I am interested in the north of the island mainly the sites will concentrate on these areas. Is this what you are after?

 

Malcolm

[Nick_Burman]

Hi Nick

 

As Kyushu is my favoured area of Japan, I have a list of many web sites for the 1960 - 1975 era. As I am interested in the north of the island mainly the sites will concentrate on these areas. Is this what you are after?

 

Malcolm

 

Malcolm, excellent. I'm doing this search on behalf of a Nissei friend of mine whose family hails from Kumamoto and who has relatives in Tosu. His father came to Brazil as a boy soon after the war but late enough that he still remembers the trains he rode (C tanks and 8620 Moguls on passenger trains and 9600s on freights). Now my friend wants to model these trains and need references.

 

I also have an interest in Kyushu...the Chikugo coalfield is one of my favorite areas and contains one of my favorite railways (the Mitsui Miike).

 

 

Cheers NB

[bill937ca]

This is general Kyushu.

 

http://www.uraken.net/eg/kyusyu/index2.html

 

This is the all-train index from that web site.  Kyushu is down at the bottom of the page. Its a start.

 

http://www.uraken.net/rail/alltrain/index.html

 

Map

 

http://www.uraken.net/chimei/railold/kyusyu.jpg

[Kitayama]

9600 in Kyushu ...

Bad scanning from a Japanese picture book I found in a second hand book store in Sweden 8 years ago.

The picture is from Hoshii at Ita line, 13 km south Nogata, Fukuoka prefecture.

 

[Fenway Park]

Hi Nick,

 

Trying to detail all the sites for you. I have attached some photos.

 

Malcolm

[keitaro]

nice kita!

 

Just got that model so good to see a pic of it.

[Salvatore]

Definitely Kyushu Series 800 Tsubame is my favorite Shinkansen.  

It is not a beauty?: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10039481a3/20/3

 

Home page JR Kyushu Railway Co.: http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/index.html

I hope it be useful

 

Chava.

[Guest ___]

Kyushu is also my favorite area to fan, though I don't have any particular links aside from my Kyushu image gallery on my site, but there's no real technical information on there.