Keisei Oshiage Line

Keisei Oshiage Line

A Keisei 3500 series EMU on the Oshiage Line, July 2012
Overview
Native name 京成押上線
Type Commuter rail
Locale Tokyo
Termini Oshiage
Aoto
Stations 6
Operation
Owner Keisei Electric Railway
Technical
Line length 5.7 km (3.5 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Minimum radius 260 m
Electrification 1,500 V DC
Operating speed 105 km/h (65 mph)
Route map
Legend
Misakiguchi
Keikyu Kurihama Line
Keikyu Main Line
Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal
Keikyu Airport Line
Nishi-Magome
Toei Asakusa Line
Keikyu Main Line
Toei Asakusa Line
Tobu Skytree Line
Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line
0.0 Oshiage
Tokyo Skytree
Ukeji
Keisei Ukeji
Tobu Skytree Line
Tobu Kameido Line
1.1 Keisei-Hikifune
Mukōjima
Keisei Shirahige Line
2.4 Yahiro
Arakawa River
Ayase River
3.1 Yotsugi
4.6 Keisei-Tateishi
Keisei Ueno
Keisei Main Line
5.7 Aoto
Main Line
Hokusō Line
Imba Nihon-idai
Keisei Higashi-Narita Line
Narita Airport Terminal 1
Higashi-Narita
Shibayama Railway Line
Shibayama-Chiyoda

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

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
Between
stations		 Total
Continues to/from Toei Asakusa Line.
KS45 Oshiage 押上 - 0.0 ● ● ● ● ●
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 ● ● ● ● ● Keisei Main Line
Continues to/from Keisei Main Line.

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

References

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

  1. 1 2 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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