Kogane (Hokkaido)

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Kogane Station opened on 20 August 1925 as Okonshibe Station, a general station of the Ministry of Railways, when the Chōrin East Line was completed between Wanishi (now Higashi-Muroran) and Date-Monbetsu. The line became the Chōrin Line in September 1928 and was absorbed into the Muroran Main Line on 1 April 1931. The station was renamed Kogane on 15 November 1952. Freight handling ended on 15 October 1960, and the station was unstaffed and simply commissioned on 15 May 1980 when CTC signalling was extended over the line. JR Hokkaido inherited the station at the 1987 privatisation, the current weatherboarded building dates from a 1988 rebuild, and the simple commission lapsed at an unrecorded later date leaving the station fully unstaffed.

The station was renamed from Okonshibe to Kogane in 1952; according to the 1973 JNR Hokkaido publication 'Origins of Hokkaido Station Names', the original name was changed simply because the characters were too difficult to read.