Tenri light railway

The Tenri light railway (てんりけいべんてつどう) is the railway company who ran a pike linking the Tanbaichicho, Yamabe-gun riverbank Castle (Tenri-shi) from Okidome, Horyuji-mura, Ikoma-gun, Nara (Japanese National Railways Horyu-ji Temple station square). It was built for the purpose of the passenger transportation of the Tenriism believer, but I am purchased with route extension of the Osaka Electric orbit, and, as for part of the route, it is Kintetsu Tenri Line now.

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Route data

• Route distance: 9.0km
• Between the gauge: 762mm [¹]
• Double track section: Unavailable (whole line single line)
• Electrification section: Unavailable (whole line non-electrification)
• Power: Steam

History

Building and buildings such as called headquarters shrine and founder began in the Tenriism later in the Taisho era from spring of 1911, and believers came to leave for the Tenriism headquarters for the work work. As for the trip, the fare needed 51 sen to Tanba-shi Station (Tenri Station) via Nara Station from Minato-cho, Osaka for around two hours 30 minutes. Therefore there were many people who got off at Horyuji Station on the way, and went to the Tenriism headquarters on foot [²].

The laying license of the light railway which reaches the Tanbaichicho, Yamabe-gun riverbank castle (Tenri-shi) in prospect of the passenger transportation of the believer of such a Tenriism in front of Horyuji Station by the projection of nine Hisashi Sugimoto Saburo et al. [³] [⁴] on January 4, 1912 lower; was referred. And a foundation general meeting was held on November 27, and Tenri light railway Co., Ltd. (capital 250,000 yen) was established, and Sugimoto took office as a door tail good gate-guard office, a managing director to the president [⁵]. The construction was begun than the Horyu-ji Temple side in December, 1913, and I made a statement for a landowner opposite to sale of the land to the land expropriation examination committee, and there was the delay, but solved it. The topography was almost flat construction advanced smoothly, and the bridging of the Tomio River and the Saho River was completed on January 13, 1915, too and started transportation business from February 7.

It was a result at the time of the opening of business, but, as for the daily mean passenger volume, the 4.5 moon has fallen much below 467 people, June 188 and an aim [⁶]. The passenger volumes gradually increased, but the room for development was limited for a small railroad, and ことから, the outward trip to be seen in the getting off staff from a big difference with vehicle ridership of new Horyuji Station again [⁷] used Tenri light railway, and the return journey went to Nara from Tanba-shi Station [⁸], and it seemed to be said afterwards in Uehommachi, Osaka by Osaka electricity orbit [⁹] which did transfer, and went to Minato-cho, Osaka by Kansai Main Line, or was inaugurated in April, 1914. The door tail of the president retired from it in 1916 and continued doing business while receiving the government subsidy based on the light railway assistance method.

Furrow sideline (うねびせん) (Kintetsu Kashihara Line) which after doing it this way, the Osaka Electric orbit southed from Saidaiji Station (later Yamato-Saidaiji Station), and reached Kashihara-jingu Shrine made a plan [¹⁰]. It becomes the form to cross the intermediate part of the Tenri light railway, and the route will have a great influence on the management. I was obliged to carry out the compensation for the Tenri light railway or the purchase as a condition of the authorization from such a thing for Osaka Electric orbit [¹¹]. It was decided that negotiations [¹²] were continued among both, and Osaka Electric orbit succeeded 132,000 yen, the employee as for the purchase amount of money on October 2, 1920, and a transfer contract was concluded in this way. And I discussed it by an extraordinary shareholders' meeting of October 29 and was approved. The transfer application was authorized on December 6 and became the Osaka Electric orbit Tenri rail line from January 1, 1921, and the Tenri light railway was dissolved without being filled after the opening of business for six years.

Transportation, income and expenditure results

The year	The transportation staff (person)	Business income (Japanese yen)	Operating expense (Japanese yen)	Business gain (Japanese yen)	Government subsidy (Japanese yen)
1915 (Taisho 4) years	121,194	11,995	14,315	▲2,320	5,991
1916 (Taisho 5) years	199,154	16,863	19,824	▲2,961	10,919
1917 (Taisho 6) years	260,565	23,973	20,126	3,847	7,597
1918 (Taisho 7) years	304,975	25,393	31,054	▲5,695	12,101
1919 (Taisho 8) years	306,794	29,799	31,885	▲2,086	10,545
1920 (Taisho 9) years	402,563	54,021	51,837	2,184	5,670

1915 House of railroad annual report, the 1916-1919 year than House of railroad railroad statistics document, 1920 Ministry of Railways railroad statistics document

Vehicle

Three steam locomotives, passenger car ten, freight train ten (five boxcars, open car five)

• 8.7 tons of axle placement 0-4-0 (B) form grade well tank engine (1-3) as for the steam locomotive for 1,914 years (manufacturing number 7156-7158) made of German Olen Stein ウント Koppel.
• -10 wooden bogey passenger cars (42 capacity)

  A product made in Kansai vehicle. The indoor light was an oil light, and the inside of car comprised a strap on a long seat.

Service situation

Time required 34 minutes. 13 coming and going a day were run every approximately one hour and were increased the number of flights for 15 coming and going for a busy season. Because connection at Japanese National Railways Horyuji Station was set at the time by a standard, there was a train in one hour after 23 from new Horyuji Station at the time of the opening of business.

I was able to arrive in from one hour 40 minutes to two hours even if I included transfer in Horyu-ji Temple in Tenri from Minato-cho, Osaka.

List of stations

The opening of business: New Horyuji Station - Nukata part Station - Nikaido Station - Senzai Station - Tenri Station

On March 10, 1916, a relief station was founded between new Horyuji Station - Nukata part stations.

The storage of engine was at new Horyuji Station, and a top and bottom train changed a train at Nikaido Station.

Footnote

1. It was 1,067mm same as Japanese National Railways in the ^ company prospectus
2. ^ "Kintetsu Line local train 2 Kyoto, Kashihara Line" 138-139 pages
3. The name of ability Tokichi who congratulated it of Osaka called a ^ electricity king was seen, but it was not to an officer
4. Approximately eight mis (approximately 13km) were short than I detoured to ^ Nara.
5. The ^ "all over Japan company executives register it.21st" (National Diet Library digital collection)
6. I calculated a daily average passenger volume with 1,614 saying that believer more than 540 all people, the worshipers of the Tenriism were not below 500,000 people a year in the ^ company prospectus and was as a pure gain for 17,625 yen deduction 24,035 yen for 41,660 yen, operating expense for an annual income.
7. 77,744 vehicle ridership of 1917 of ^ new Horyuji Station, getting off staff 49,203
8. I left ^ Tanba-shi Station and Tenri Station approximately 100m, and the Tenriism headquarters was closer in Tanba-shi Station.
9. As for the Tenri light railway, the time from Osaka and the superiority of the fare have been lost by this ^ opening to traffic
10. ^ November 20, 1917 application November 19, 1918 patent
11. ^ "large gauge new line incidental condition" December 7, 1918 date Osaka news (library newspaper article library attached to Kobe University)
12. Because I exceeded it, and a new route must cross for ^ size gauge at the intersection point with the Tenri light railway, there seemed to be the expectations called the saving of construction costs, too.

References

• In "Ayumi Kintetsu, 2010 of Kintetsu 100 years" 87, 121-122 pages (as for the charge writing Masafumi Miki)
• "Tenri light railway" "railroad historical materials" No. 39

"Tenri light railway company prospectus Co., Ltd." is placed

• If Kango Abiko "Tozai Line construction - - Tenri in the Nara Basin is handy Yamato railroad" "Manabu Nara study" No. 3, 2000
• No. 455 Hiroaki Takebe "Tenri light railway "railroad PICT rial" November, 1985 issue at the time of the Kintetsu Tenri Line opening of business that I invited the 70th anniversary" to
• For Keitaro Tokunaga "Kintetsu Line local train 2 Kyoto, Kashihara Line" color books 659, childcare company, 1,984 years, it is 138-139 pages
• In Sada Matsufuji person "light railway - small leading role - enlarged edition mountain of Nara who continued running" and 崑崙企画, 2004, it is 10-23 pages

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