Keisei Oshiage Line

Keisei Oshiage Line
300px 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 Keikyu Airport Line Nishi-Magome Toei Asakusa Line Keikyu Main Line Toei Asakusa Line Tobu Skytree Line Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line 0.0 Keisei-Oshiage Tokyo Skytree Ukeji Keisei Ukeji Tobu Skytree Line Tobu Kameido Line 1.1 Keisei-Hikifune Mukōjima Keisei Shirahige Line 2.4 Yahiro Ara River Ayase River 3.1 Yotsugi 4.6 Keisei-Tateishi Keisei Ueno Keisei Main Line 5.7 Aoto Main Line Hokusō Line Inba-Nihonidai Keisei Higashi-Narita Line Narita Airport 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

• Gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ¹⁄₂ in)
• Track: double
• Block system: Automatic
• ATC/ATS: C-ATS

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
KS45	Oshiage	押上	-	0.0	●	●	●	●	●	Toei Asakusa Line Tobu Skytree Line Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line	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

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. 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

• Mukojima Station (since closed): The Keisei company was seeking a line to Tokyo, and encouraged the Prince Electric Railway to construct a 1.4 km 1,372 mm gauge line to this station as part of a campaign for government approval for a Tokyo line, the line opening in 1928. However, once approval to build to Ueno was received, the Tokyo line proposal lapsed and the line closed in 1936. Mukojima Station closed in 1947.

References

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