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Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.
Native name
Nagoya thiết nói kabushiki gaisha
Company typePublicKK(TYO:9048)
IndustryPrivate railway
FoundedJune 13, 1921(1921-06-13)[1]
Headquarters
Nagoya
,
Japan
Area served
Aichi Prefecture,Gifu Prefecture
Key people
Takashi Ando[jp](Chairman)[2]
Hiroki Takasaki[jp](President)
Websitewww.meitetsu.co.jp/eng/

Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.(Nagoya thiết nói kabushiki gaisha,Nagoya Tetsudō Kabushiki Gaisha),[3]often abbreviated to asMeitetsu(Danh thiết),is aprivate railwaycompany operating aroundAichi PrefectureandGifu PrefectureofJapan.TYO:9048

Some of the more famous trains operated by Meitetsu include thePanorama Carand thePanorama Car Super,both of which offer views through their wide front windows. While thePanorama Supertrain is used extensively for the railroad's limited express service, the older and more energy-consumingPanorama Cartrain has been retired, the last run being on 27 December 2008.

In theTōkai regionaroundNagoya,it is a central firm of theMeitetsu Group,which is involved intransport,retail trade,service industry,andreal estate,among other industries.

Meiji Murais the corporate museum of Meitetsu.

As of March 2023, Meitetsu operated 444.2 kilometres (276.0 mi) of track, 275 stations, and 1,076 train cars, being one of the largest private railway company in Japan.[4]

History

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Meitetsu was founded on 25 June 1894 as the Aichi Horsecar Company.[5]

Over time, Meitetsu has acquired many small railway andinterurbancompanies in the Nagoya area, many of whom were constructed and operated before and during World War II. For example, Meitetsu acquired itsKōwa Lineon theChita Peninsulafrom its merger withChita Railroadon February 1, 1943, and it acquired itsMikawa Linefrom its merger withMikawa Railroad.[6][7]

Meitetsu is famous for its red trains, including its famous7000 series"Panorama Car" which was retired in 2009 after a career lasting nearly half a century.[8]The most recent cars, however, are not solid red but rather brushed steel as in the case of the4000 seriesand5000 series,or white as in the case of the1700 seriesand2000 series.[9]

While the company used to engage in the freight business and still possesses some freight locomotives, it no longer carries freight on a regular basis.[10]

Lines

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Line map
Direction Name Japanese Terminals Length (km)
Main NHNagoya Main Line Nagoya bổn tuyến Toyohashi-Meitetsu Gifu 99.8
Western Aichi andGifu Area TBTsushima Line Tân đảo tuyến Sukaguchi-Tsushima 11.8
TBBSBisai Line Đuôi tây tuyến Yatomi-Tamanoi 30.9
THTakehana Line Trúc mũi tuyến Kasamatsu-Egira 10.3
THHashima Line Vũ đảo tuyến Egira -Shin Hashima 1.3
Northern Aichi andChūnō IYInuyama Line[Note 1] Khuyển sơn tuyến Biwajima Junction-Shin Unuma 26.8
KGKakamigahara Line Các vụ nguyên tuyến Meitetsu Gifu - Shin Unuma 17.6
HMHiromi Line Quảng thấy tuyến Inuyama-Mitake 22.3
KMKomaki Line[Note 2] Tiểu mục tuyến Kami Iida- Inuyama 20.4
Chita Peninsula TATokoname Line Thường hoạt tuyến Jingū-mae-Tokoname 29.3
TAAirport Line Không cảng tuyến Tokoname -Central Japan Int'l Airport 4.2
CHChikkō Line Trúc cảng tuyến Ōe-Higashi Nagoyakō 1.5
KCKōwa Line Hà cùng tuyến Ōtagawa-Kōwa 28.8
KCChita New Line Biết nhiều tân tuyến Fuki-Utsumi 13.9
Mikawa (Eastern Aichi) TKToyokawa Line Phong xuyên tuyến Kō-Toyokawa-inari 7.2
GNNishio Line Tây đuôi tuyến Shin Anjō-Kira Yoshida 24.7
GNGamagōri Line Bồ quận tuyến Kira Yoshida -Gamagōri 17.6
MUMYMikawa Line Tam hà tuyến Sanage-Hekinan 39.8
TTToyota Line[Note 1] Phong điền tuyến Umetsubo-Akaike 15.2
Isolated from all Meitetsu lines STSeto Line Lại hộ tuyến Sakaemachi-Owari Seto 20.6
  1. ^abThrough operation to/from theNagoya Municipal Subway■Tsurumai Line
  2. ^Through operation to/from theNagoya Municipal Subway■Kamiiida Line

Major stations

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The Meitetsu limited express network

Major stations in Nagoya

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Nagoya Line (east side) and Toyokawa Line

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Tokoname Line, Chikkō Line, and Airport Line

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Kōwa Line and Chita New Line

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Mikawa Line, Toyota Line, Nishio Line, and Gamagōri Line

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Nagoya Line (west side), Takehana Line, and Hashima Line

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Tsushima Line and Bisai Line

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Inuyama Line, Kakamigahara Line, and Hiromi Line

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Komaki Line

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Seto Line

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Rolling stock

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Meitetsu 1000 series "Panorama Super" (left) and 2000 series "Airport Limited Express [μSky]" (right)

Nippon Sharyohas produced nearly every car that Meitetsu operates or has operated, a notable exception being itsClass EL120,an electric locomotive, which was produced byToshiba,but very few units were produced for Meitetsu. The Class EL120 is one of the few locomotives that Meitetsu possesses.

The following are the train types that Meitetsu operates today, as well as selected types that Meitetsu has retired.

Limited express

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Commuter

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Meitetsu 5000 series commuter train

Withdrawn train types

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Meitetsu 7000 series "Panorama Car" train

Electric locomotives

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Rationalization

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Tamatsu-ura Station, one of the stations that were closed due to low passengers

As Meitetsu formed out of multiple mergers, it owned many deficit lines previously owned by other companies. The railway lines were also seeing competition from cars, due to the fact that Aichi prefecture has a notable automobile industry in cities such asToyota.Meitetsu has abolished over 15 lines over the past 70 years, while also closing sections with low ridership.[11]Additionally, with the collapse ofBubble economyin the 1990s, and the privatization ofJNR,formation ofCentral Japan Railway Company,the company also cut the number of companies in its corporate group from 250 to 139.[12]

References

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  1. ^Thứu điền, thiết cũng (September 2010), "Nagoya thiết nói 1",Tuần san mặt trời mới mọc bách khoa,Tuần san lịch sử でめぐる thiết nói toàn lộ tuyến (in Japanese), no. 8, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 21,ISBN978-4-02-340138-9
  2. ^"Organizational Chart"(PDF).RetrievedJanuary 9,2024.
  3. ^"Overview of the Meitetsu Group for Fiscal 2018"(PDF).Archived(PDF)from the original on November 20, 2018.RetrievedJune 15,2019.
  4. ^"Nagoya thiết nói kabushiki gaisha | Nhật Bản dân 営 thiết nói hiệp hội".mintetsu.or.jp.RetrievedMay 11,2024.
  5. ^Thứu điền, thiết cũng (September 2010), "Nagoya thiết nói 1",Tuần san mặt trời mới mọc bách khoa,Tuần san lịch sử でめぐる thiết nói toàn lộ tuyến (in Japanese), no. 8, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 20,ISBN978-4-02-340138-9
  6. ^Thứu điền, thiết cũng (September 2010), "Tuần san lịch sử でめぐる thiết nói toàn lộ tuyến bàn tay to tư thiết: Nagoya thiết nói",Tuần san mặt trời mới mọc bách khoa(in Japanese), no. 9, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 10,ISBN978-4-02-340139-6
  7. ^Tá đằng, tin chi (June 19, 2004), "Độ cao kinh tế trưởng thành kỳ の thiết nói chỉnh đốn và sắp đặt ― chiêu cùng 30～40 niên đại",Ngầm thiết の lịch sử thủ đô quyển ・ trung bộ ・ gần kỳ quyển(in Japanese), グランプリ xuất bản, p. 129,ISBN4-87687-260-0
  8. ^"なごや sắc さんぽ#２【 danh thiết xe điện の “スカーレットレッド” 】 | ICD quốc tế カラーデザイン hiệp hội ".icd-color.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
  9. ^"Xích い xe điện ｢ danh thiết ｣､ nay chấn り phản る chiêu cùng ･ bình thành の ký ức".Đông Dương kinh tế オンライン(in Japanese). May 1, 2019.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
  10. ^"Danh thiết hàng hóa chuyển vận".tsushima-keibendo.a.la9.jp.RetrievedFebruary 2,2024.
  11. ^"OpenId transaction in progress".plus.chunichi.co.jp.RetrievedMay 11,2024.
  12. ^"JR Đông Hải の thế công をかわした｢ danh thiết ｣ の sống lại kịch".Đông Dương kinh tế オンライン(in Japanese). October 20, 2016.RetrievedMay 11,2024.
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