Kōhin'hoku Line

The Kōhin'hoku Line (興浜北線: Kōhin'hoku-sen) was a Japanese railway line operated by the Japanese National Railways (JNR). The line goes from Hama-Tombetsu Station in the Tempoku Line to Kitami-Esashi Station.

Services
Two services go through the Tempoku Line to Otoineppu.

The following is the schedule of the Kōhin'hoku Line. All the time displayed are in 24-hour format. * arrival/departure at Hama-Tombetsu.

Stations
All stations are in Hokkaidō. * User:ジョヴ, the only active editor here, does not know what did User:Rgt2002 put these asterisks for.

History
A line was planned to connect Hama-Tombetsu and Okōppe along the Okhotsk Sea. The given name for this line is Kōhin Line. It came from the two stations that it connects: Hama-Tombetsu (浜頓別) and Okōppe (興部). The first character of the first station (浜) can also be read as "hin" and the first character of the end station (興) is also read as "kō". Putting together "kō" and "hin" makes "Kōhin". The line first opened in 1936 and services were suspended in 1944 due to the Pacific War. The village of Esashi was damaged in the war, and the railroad helped the residents to restore the village.

The plan to connect the two railways already constructed for the planned route of the Kōhin Line didn't carry out, and the southern part of the route (Kōhin'nan Line) discontinued on September 1985, this line following 2 weeks later.

Furthermore, the lines connecting the Kōhin Line (Tempoku Line, Nayoro Main Line) were abolished after JR Hokkaidō took operations in Hokkaidō. There was also a plan of the Bikō Line to connect Bifuka and Kitami-Esashi, but although the roadbed has already been constructed, the rail wasn't laid and the Bikō Line only went up until Niupu Station and the line was abolished on September 17, 1985.

The Kōhin'hoku Line, together with the whole Kōhin Line, the Nayoro Main Line, the Tempoku Line, and the Yūmo Line, was part of a big railroad project that traverses the Okhotsk Sea, but at the end, the project wasn't carried out.

Timeline

 * July 10, 1936 - Line is opened as the Kōhin'hoku Line.
 * November 1, 1944 - Operations were suspended.
 * December 5, 1945 - Operations resumed.
 * February 26, 1956 - 3 temporary platforms (Tombetsu, Toyohama, Yamausu) were established.
 * May 1975 - Steam train operations were abolished.
 * February 1, 1984 - Freight operations ceased.
 * July 1, 1985 - Abolition of the whole line. Sōya Bus takes over the whole route.