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NewsTracklaying completed on Sotetsu – Tokyu Link
JAPAN: The completion of tracklaying on the link line connecting the Sotetsu and Tokyu railways was marked with a ceremony at Shin-Yokohama on July 8.
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Seibu Railway
First line opened 1894. See Tokyo network map. Seibu’s main lines are: Seibu Shinjuku Line (47·5 km) – from Tokyo (Shinjuku) north to Takadanobaba then west to Nakai, Kodaira and Higashi-Muruyama, then north via Tokorozawa to Hon-Kawagoe; the Haijima Line branches west at Kodaira via Ogawa to Haijima (14·3 ...
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Sagami Railway (Sotetsu line)
Operates an intensive commuter service on its 24·6 km Yokohama − Yamato − Ebina Sotetsu main line, opened 1926-41, and on the 11·3 km Sotetsu Izumino branch opened 1976, extended to Izumo Chuo in 1990 and to Shonandai in 1999. It also owns the 2·2 km Atsugi freight line, which ...
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Kanto Railway
Operates two separate lines connecting with JR East’s Joban line on the northeast edge of Tokyo: Joso Line (51·1 km): from Toride north to Shimodate on JR East’s Mito Line; Ryugasaki Line (4·5 km): from Sanuki east to Ryugasaki. The Joso Line crosses the Tsukuba Express line with ...
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Isumi Railway
Opened in the 1930s, this third sector company operates the former-JNR line from Ohara to Kazusa-Nakano on the Bōsō Peninsula in Chiba prefecture, southeast of Tokyo. At Ohara on the Pacific coast the line interchanges with JR East’s Sotobo line, then runs inland west to Kazusa-Nakano, terminus of the Kominato ...