The Maizuru Line (舞鶴線, Maizuru-sen) is a 26.4 km (16.4 mi) railway line in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, operated by the West Japan Railway Company (JR West). It connects Ayabe and Higashi-Maizuru, the line beyond there being called the Obama Line connecting to Tsuruga.
The line opened in the autumn of 1904 to transport troops and materiel to the naval base and Maizuru-Higashi Port during the Russo-Japanese War, which commenced in February of that year.[1] Although built by the Japanese Government, it was initially leased to the Bantsuru Railway Co, which opened the Ayabe – Fukuchiyama section of what is now the Sanin Main Line the same year.
The company was nationalised in 1907, the year the 2 km Maizurukō Line (舞鶴港線) from Nishi-Maizuru to Maizuru Port opened. Passenger services operated on that branch between 1913 and 1924, and it closed in 1985.
Nishi-Maizuru was also the junction for the 4 km Naka-Maizuru Line (中舞鶴線) to Naka-Maizuru which operated between 1919 and 1972.[1]
From the start of the revised timetable on 13 March 2021, Rapid trains that passed through Magura Station were discontinued and were changed to Local trains.[2]
From the start of the revised timetable on 18 March 2023, 125 series trainsets began operation on the Maizuru Line.[3]
References
^ abc帰ろう 私たちの故郷へ ＪＲ舞鶴線 [JR Maizuru Line – Returning to our hometown]. The Asahi Shimbun Digital (in Japanese). Japan: The Asahi Digital Company. 2 May 2009. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
^"２０２１年春ダイヤ改正について"(PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: West Japan Railway Company. 18 December 2020. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
^"JR西日本125系、ダイヤ改正後の舞鶴線で運用 - 113系とともに活躍" [JR West 125 series begin on the Maizuru Line after the timetable revision alongside the 113 series]. MyNavi Corporation (in Japanese). 21 March 2023. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
