Station

Shinkawa (Hokkaido)

新川

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Shinkawa (Hokkaido)
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Timetable information

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Location

History

Shinkawa Station opened on 1 November 1986 as the Japanese National Railways Shinkawa provisional boarding halt on the Sasshō Line, with a single platform and track and no staff. It was upgraded to a full station and passed to JR Hokkaido at privatisation on 1 April 1987. The Sasshō Line was rebranded as the 'Gakuen Toshi Line' in 1991, and that December the stop was rebuilt as a wooden single-storey building and given staffed contract operation. Elevated platforms began service on 22 August 1999 between Shinkawa and Shin-Kotoni, and on 11 March 2000 a new station building with twin opposed platforms replaced the temporary layout. Electrification reached the line on 1 June 2012.

Notes

Until the line was electrified on 1 June 2012, Shinkawa was one of just three stations on the line (with Hachiken and Shin-Kotoni) that combined an elevated, double-track, and non-electrified profile — an unusual configuration.

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