Keisei Oshiage Line

Keisei Oshiage Line
Keisei Oshiage Line
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	A Keisei 3700 series EMU on the Oshiage Line on a Rapid service
Overview
Native name	京成押上線
Owner	Keisei
Locale	Tokyo
Termini	Oshiage; Aoto;
Stations	6
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Technical
Line length	5.7 km (3.5 mi)
Number of tracks	Double-track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Minimum radius	260 m (850 ft)
Electrification	1,500 V DC (Overhead line)
Operating speed	105 km/h (65 mph)
Signalling	Automatic closed block
Train protection system	C-ATS
Maximum incline	3.5%
Route map
Route map
	Legend

The Keisei Oshiage Line (京成押上線, Keisei-Oshiage-sen) is a railway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by private railway company Keisei Electric Railway. It connects Oshiage Station in Sumida and Aoto Station in Katsushika.

The Oshiage Line passes through areas typical of Tokyo's shitamachi ("down town") working-class sections known for their distinctively earthy atmosphere.

Basic data

Gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)^[1]
Track: double
Block system: Automatic
ATC/ATS: C-ATS

Service patterns

The following types of service operate on the line.

Access Express (アクセス特急, Akusesu Tokkyū): Through service on the Keisei Narita Sky Access Line.; Through services to Toei Asakusa Line and Keikyu Line, Airport Limited Express for Haneda Airport.
Limited Express (快速特急, Kaisoku Tokkyū): Through services to Toei Asakusa Line and Keikyu Line, Airport Limited Express on the Asakusa Line, Limited Express (Kaitoku) on the Keikyu Line for Haneda Airport.
Limited Express (特急, Tokkyū)
Commuter Express (通勤特急, Tsūkin Tokkyū)
Rapid (快速, Kaisoku): Through service on the Keisei Main Line.
Local (普通, Futsū): Trans stop at all stations along the Oshiage Line.

Through services to Toei Asakusa Line and Keikyu Main Line, Limited Express (Kaitoku) for Misakiguchi. Through services to Hokuso Line.

Stations

No.	Name	Japanese	Distance (km)		Access Express	Ltd. Express (green)	Ltd. Express (red)	Comm. Express	Rapid	Transfers	Location
No.	Name	Japanese	Between stations	Total	Access Express	Ltd. Express (green)	Ltd. Express (red)	Comm. Express	Rapid	Transfers	Location
↑ Through-running to/from ↑ Nishi-Magome via the A Toei Asakusa Line Yokohama via the A Toei Asakusa Line and KK Keikyū Main Line, and Misakiguchi via the KK Keikyū Kurihama Line Haneda Airport Terminal 1·2 and Terminal 3 via the A Toei Asakusa Line, KK Keikyū Main Line and KK Keikyū Airport Line
KS45	Oshiage	押上	-	0.0	●	●	●	●	●	A Toei Asakusa Line (A-20) (Through Service) TS Tobu Skytree Line (TS-03) Z Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line (Z-14)	Sumida
KS46	Keisei Hikifune	京成曳舟	1.1	1.1	\|	\|	\|	\|	\|
KS47	Yahiro	八広	1.3	2.4	\|	\|	\|	\|	\|
KS48	Yotsugi	四ツ木	0.7	3.1	\|	\|	\|	\|	\|		Katsushika
KS49	Keisei Tateishi	京成立石	1.5	4.6	\|	\|	\|	\|	\|
KS09	Aoto	青砥	1.1	5.7	●	●	●	●	●	KS Keisei Main Line (Through Service)
↓ Through-running to/from ↓ Narita Airport Terminal 1 via the KS Keisei Main Line Narita Airport Terminal 1 via the KS Keisei Main Line and KS Narita Sky Access Line Imba Nihon-idai via the KS Keisei Main Line and HS Hokusō Line Shibayama-Chiyoda via the KS Keisei Main Line, KS Keisei Higashi-Narita Line, and SR Shibayama Railway

History

This line constituted part of the original Keisei Main Line, opened in 1914 as a dual track 1,372 mm gauge electrified line, but once the section from Ueno and Nippori to Aoto came into service in 1932, this line became a short branch and was renamed the "Oshiage Line".

The line was regauged to 1,435 mm in 1959 in preparation for the introduction of through services upon the opening of Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transport (Toei) Line 1 (present Toei Asakusa Line) on 4 December 1960, when the line returned to its original role in the Keisei network, to provide trains from its main line to downtown Tokyo via the Toei line.^[1] It also provides connections at Oshiage to the Tobu Skytree Line and the Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line. The line is now a de facto main line of Keisei.

Former connecting lines

Mukojima Station (since closed): The Keisei company was seeking a line to Tokyo, and encouraged the Ōji Electric Railway to construct a 1.4 km 1,372 mm gauge line to this station as part of a campaign for government approval for a Tokyo line, the line opening in 1928. However, once approval to build to Ueno was received, the Tokyo line proposal lapsed and the line closed in 1936. Mukojima Station closed in 1947.^{[citation needed]}

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.

^ ^a ^b Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing. pp. 46–47, 210. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

[terada2013-1] Terada, Hirokazu (19 January 2013). データブック日本の私鉄 [Databook: Japan's Private Railways] (in Japanese). Japan: Neko Publishing. pp. 46–47, 210. ISBN 978-4-7770-1336-4.

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v t e Keisei Group
Keisei lines	Chiba Chihara Higashi-Narita Kanamachi Main Narita Airport (Narita Sky Access) Oshiage
Related lines	Toei Asakusa Line Hokusō Jōsō Kashima (closed) Kominato Mt. Tsukuba Cable Car Mt. Tsukuba Ropeway Nokogiriyama Ropeway Ryūgasaki Shibayama Shin-Keisei Tōyō Rapid
Major stations	Keisei Ueno Nippori Aoto Keisei Funabashi Keisei Narita Narita Airport Terminal 2·3 Narita Airport Terminal 1 Oshiage Keisei Chiba
Related companies	Chiba New Town Railway Hokusō Railway Kantō Railway Kashima Railway (defunct) Kominato Railway Maihama Resort Line Shibayama Railway Shin-Keisei Electric Railway Tōyō Rapid Railway Tsukuba Kankō Railway

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