Ihara Railway (?)

[Nick_Burman]

 

A ride on the Ihara Ibara Railway. The video captions say that when they filmed the cab ride the line/service had barely been open for three days . The railcars surely look new. Where is this operation? To be able to run under wire it must be a JR subsidiary...

 

Cheers NB

Edited July 12, 2013 by Nick_Burman

[Densha]

Translating the title of a youtube video and description always gives information.

I just copied the company name and this Japanese wikipedia page is about the company: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E5%8E%9F%E9%89%84%E9%81%93

This is the English page about the railway line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibara_Railway_Ibara_Line

[Nick_Burman]

Translating the title of a youtube video and description always gives information.

I just copied the company name and this Japanese wikipedia page is about the company: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BA%95%E5%8E%9F%E9%89%84%E9%81%93

This is the English page about the railway line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibara_Railway_Ibara_Line

Thanks Densha, but Google Translator often changes the "b" for an "h" in names...

 

Cheers NB

[Nick_Burman]

I'm watching the film now...the line looks fit to take an 10.000ton coal train and yet only hosts diesel railcars. As they would say in Japan, mottainai (what a waste)...

 

Cheers NB

[Densha]

The trick is to look at the highlighed words in google translate, and to the transliterated romaji below the Japanese characters you copy to google translate. Then figure out which Japanese characters to copy, and there is the unlimited Japanese sources!

In the case of railways you may want to look for the word 鉄道 (tetsudo).