Kouzuke Railway?

[Nick_Burman]

World Kougei has released this critter here:

 

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10175979

 

They say it ran on the Kouzuke Railway. Since this loco is a licensed product by the Joshin Railway, I'll gather that it was a precedessor company and part of today's Takasaki - Shimonita line. Could someone please tell me more about this railway...especially it's length - how did a locomotive like this managed to get to the end of the line without a bunker?

 

Cheers NB

[keitaro]

i may be mistaken but i think its reffering to ueno

 

http://worldheritage.pref.gunma.jp/ja/ks003-010.html

[marknewton]

Nick, there is a bunker on locos like this Porter - it's in the cab, on the fireman's side beside the firebox/backplate. Nice little model!

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Nick_Burman]

i may be mistaken but i think its reffering to ueno

 

http://worldheritage.pref.gunma.jp/ja/ks003-010.html

 

 

Begging your pardon, could you please expand on this?

 

Cheers NB

[Nick_Burman]

Nick, there is a bunker on locos like this Porter - it's in the cab, on the fireman's side beside the firebox/backplate. Nice little model!

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

 

Also just about the easiest Japanese keiben loco one can do in On30 - a) purchase Bachmann model; b) take it out of the box; c) couple to train and hassha!, off you go...

 

Thanks, didn't know the detail about the bunker inside the cab. Makes the loco more "main-line-worthy". Also, I wonder if they turned the loco at the end of every trip? Mie Kotsu turned their Koppels...the original Yokkaichi terminal had two turntables to deal with that. Otherwise it would have been a mighty uncomfortable trip back - especially in winter! I wonder if there were other similar locos elsewhere in Japan...

 

Cheers NB

[keitaro]

i may be mistaken but i think its reffering to ueno

 

http://worldheritage.pref.gunma.jp/ja/ks003-010.html

 

 

Begging your pardon, could you please expand on this?

 

Cheers NB

 

sure http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%8A%E4%BF%A1%E9%9B%BB%E9%89%84

 

this is the line but i think its reffered to as Ueno railway or so the translation goes. kouzuke railway was a part of the line that closed due to the silk business shutting down long ago in the depression.

I think the line was changed. Though I can't be too sure.

 

wish i could read japanese better because these translates are terrible.

[Martijn Meerts]

Good thing it's H0, otherwise I would've have needed to order one :)

[marknewton]

this is the line but i think its reffered to as Ueno railway or so the translation goes.

 

According to Electric Railways of Japan, the Joshin Railway opened in 1897 as a 762mm gauge steam line, called the Ueno Railway, and was regauged and electrified in 1924.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Dorian Davis]

Yes, so I'm guilty of dredging up old threads ...

 

The old Kozuke Railway was established as a light rail railroad between Takasaki and Shimonita (a distance of 20 miles 52 chains) in 1897 for the transportation of local cocoons, raw silk, and silkworm eggs. Private capital was raised by 563 shareholders (327 of whom were Nanji west sericulture farmers); the largest shareholder was the Mitsui Bank.

 

The Onigasawa bridge still remains on the old route. Two old brick warehouses for cocoons and raw silk can be found next to the Shimonita Station.

 

The line was eventually electrified as a result of local concern that coal smoke would damage cocoons and silkworm eggs.

 

Dorian