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11-481: Kobe Rapid Railway owns two lines. The Tozai and Namboku lines have been operated since the founding of the railway company while the Hokushin Line is a recent addition to its business. The company is a Category-3 Operator ( 第三種鉄道事業者 , dai-sanshu-tetsudō-jigyōsha ) under the 1986 Railway Business Act of Japan in respect to all three lines. The company does not run its own services on these lines, but provides

22-531: Is a list of the power supply systems that are, or have been, used for railway electrification . Note that the voltages are nominal and vary depending on load and distance from the substation. As of 2023 many trams and trains use on-board solid-state electronics to convert these supplies to run three-phase AC traction motors. Tram electrification systems are listed here . Voltages are defined by two standards: BS EN 50163 and IEC 60850. Gudogai (BCh) route for Vilnius – Minsk (Belarus) services

33-773: Is commonly called Kobe Line ( 神戸線 , Kōbe sen ) for short, but in the broader sense 'Kobe Line' refers to the entire network of the trunk Kobe Main Line and connecting branch lines of Itami , Imazu and Kōyō Lines. At the Kobe end of the line some trains continue through onto the Kobe Rapid Railway , an underground line allowing interchange between the lines of several commuter rail companies operating in Kobe. The Kobe Main Line has interchanges at several of its stations with other lines operated by Hankyu. The Hankyu main lines to Kyoto and Takarazuka share stations at Umeda and Juso with

44-642: The Keihanshin conurbation of Japan. It links the urban centres of Osaka and Kobe by connecting the major stations of Umeda in Osaka and Sannomiya in Kobe. The Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) Tokaido Main Line (this section nicknamed JR Kobe Line ) are the two lines parallel to the Hankyu Kobe Line within a short distance of each other. The line

55-696: The Kobe Line. The other lines with connections to the Kobe line are smaller lines with only local trains: the Itami Line connects at Tsukaguchi, the Imazu Line at Nishinomiya-kitaguchi and the Koyo Line at Shukugawa. The Umeda - Juso section was opened in 1910 as part of the Hankyu Takarazuka Line . The Juso - Oji-Koen section opened as a 1435mm gauge line electrified at 600 V DC in 1920. In 1926

66-526: The Namboku Line stations, the stations of the Hokushin Line are operated and administrated by Hokushin Kyuko ( Tanigami Station ) and Kobe Municipal Subway ( Shin-Kobe Station ). On 1 June 2020, the operation of the line was transferred to Kobe Municipal Subway . Hankyu Kobe Line The Kōbe Main Line ( 神戸本線 , Kōbe Honsen ) of Hankyu Railway is one of the three major commuter heavy rail lines in

77-455: The line was duplicated, and in 1936 it was extended to Kobe Sannomiya. In 1967 the voltage was increased to 1,500 V DC . Until 1936, the line's terminal in Kobe was in Kamitsutsui. As a branch of the main line, the 1 km (0.62 mi) line between Oji-Koen Station and Kamitsutsui Station continued to provide a connection to the Kobe tram network until 1941. The Kobe Main Line

88-651: The necessary infrastructure for four private railway lines ( Hankyu Kobe Line ( Hankyu ), Hanshin Main Line ( Hanshin ), Shintetsu Arima Line ( Shintetsu ) and Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line ( Sanyo ) to be able to run trains through Kobe. The company operated and administered the stations on the Tozai Line and the Namboku Line (except for Sannomiya Station operated by Hankyu, Motomachi Station operated by Hanshin, Nishidai Station operated by Sanyo and Minatogawa Station operated by Shintetsu) until September 2010, when

99-473: The operation of the stations on the Tozai Line were transferred to Hanshin and Hankyu, and Shinkaichi Station on the Namboku Line to Shintetsu. The Hokushin Line was formerly owned by the operator Hokushin Kyuko Electric Railway . When Hokushin Kyuko suffered financial difficulties in 2002, Kobe Rapid Railway purchased the assets of the railway trackage from Hokushin Kyuko. Unlike the Tozai Line and

110-591: The station were signed by the railway and the national treasury was signed in October 2022. During the day, only local trains (普通) and limited express trains (特急) which stop only at major stations along the line, are operated. Other commuter and express services operate only early mornings, commuting times, and late nights. Semi-Express from [REDACTED] Imazu Line for Takarazuka (Extra services) Express trains: [REDACTED] Imazu Line for Nigawa List of railway electrification systems#1,500 V DC This

121-590: Was damaged by the Great Hanshin earthquake in January 1995. Restoration work on the Kobe Line took 7 months to complete. Station numbering was introduced on 21 December 2013. A new station will be built near the Muko River between Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi and Tsukaguchi . The project, which includes a bicycle parking lot and reconstruction of the surrounding roads, is expected to cost ¥6 billion . Agreements to build

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