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Meitetsu

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Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd.
Native name
名古屋なごや鉄道てつどう株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ
Company typePublic KK (TYO: 9048)
IndustryPrivate railway
FoundedJune 13, 1921 (1921-06-13)[1]
Headquarters
Nagoya
,
Japan
Area served
Aichi Prefecture, Gifu Prefecture
Key people
Takashi Ando [jp] (Chairman)[2]
Hiroki Takasaki [jp] (President)
Websitewww.meitetsu.co.jp/eng/

Nagoya Railroad Co., Ltd. (名古屋なごや鉄道てつどう株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ, Nagoya Tetsudō Kabushiki Gaisha),[3] often abbreviated to as Meitetsu (名鉄めいてつ), is a private railway company operating around Aichi Prefecture and Gifu Prefecture of Japan. TYO: 9048

Some of the more famous trains operated by Meitetsu include the Panorama Car and the Panorama Car Super, both of which offer views through their wide front windows. While the Panorama Super train is used extensively for the railroad's limited express service, the older and more energy-consuming Panorama Car train has been retired, the last run being on 27 December 2008.

In the Tōkai region around Nagoya, it is a central firm of the Meitetsu Group, which is involved in transport, retail trade, service industry, and real estate, among other industries.

Meiji Mura is the corporate museum of Meitetsu.

As of March 2023, Meitetsu operated 444.2 kilometres (276.0 mi) of track, 275 stations, and 1,076 train cars, being one of the largest private railway company in Japan.[4]

History

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Meitetsu was founded on 25 June 1894 as the Aichi Horsecar Company.[5]

Over time, Meitetsu has acquired many small railway and interurban companies in the Nagoya area, many of whom were constructed and operated before and during World War II. For example, Meitetsu acquired its Kōwa Line on the Chita Peninsula from its merger with Chita Railroad on February 1, 1943, and it acquired its Mikawa Line from its merger with Mikawa Railroad.[6][7]

Meitetsu is famous for its red trains, including its famous 7000 series "Panorama Car" which was retired in 2009 after a career lasting nearly half a century.[8] The most recent cars, however, are not solid red but rather brushed steel as in the case of the 4000 series and 5000 series, or white as in the case of the 1700 series and 2000 series.[9]

While the company used to engage in the freight business and still possesses some freight locomotives, it no longer carries freight on a regular basis.[10]

Lines

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Line map
Direction Name Japanese Terminals Length (km)
Main   NH  Nagoya Main Line 名古屋なごや本線ほんせん Toyohashi - Meitetsu Gifu 99.8
Western Aichi and Gifu Area   TB   Tsushima Line 津島線つしません Sukaguchi - Tsushima 11.8
  TB     BS   Bisai Line 尾西線びさいせん Yatomi - Tamanoi 30.9
  TH   Takehana Line 竹鼻線たけはなせん Kasamatsu - Egira 10.3
  TH   Hashima Line 羽島線はしません Egira - Shin Hashima 1.3
Northern Aichi and Chūnō   IY   Inuyama Line[Note 1] 犬山線いぬやません Biwajima Junction - Shin Unuma 26.8
  KG   Kakamigahara Line 各務原線かがみがはらせん Meitetsu Gifu - Shin Unuma 17.6
  HM   Hiromi Line 広見線ひろみせん Inuyama - Mitake 22.3
  KM   Komaki Line[Note 2] 小牧線こまきせん Kami Iida - Inuyama 20.4
Chita Peninsula   TA   Tokoname Line 常滑線とこなめせん Jingū-mae - Tokoname 29.3
  TA   Airport Line 空港線くうこうせん Tokoname - Central Japan Int'l Airport 4.2
  CH   Chikkō Line 築港ちっこう線せん Ōe - Higashi Nagoyakō 1.5
  KC   Kōwa Line 河和線こうわせん Ōtagawa - Kōwa 28.8
  KC   Chita New Line 知多新線ちたしんせん Fuki - Utsumi 13.9
Mikawa (Eastern Aichi)   TK   Toyokawa Line 豊川線とよかわせん Kō - Toyokawa-inari 7.2
  GN   Nishio Line 西尾線にしおせん Shin Anjō - Kira Yoshida 24.7
  GN   Gamagōri Line 蒲郡線がまごおりせん Kira Yoshida - Gamagōri 17.6
  MU     MY   Mikawa Line 三河線みかわせん Sanage - Hekinan 39.8
  TT   Toyota Line[Note 1] 豊田とよだ線せん Umetsubo - Akaike 15.2
Isolated from all Meitetsu lines   ST   Seto Line 瀬戸線せとせん Sakaemachi - Owari Seto 20.6
  1. ^ a b Through operation to/from the Nagoya Municipal Subway ■ Tsurumai Line
  2. ^ Through operation to/from the Nagoya Municipal Subway ■ Kamiiida Line

Major stations

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The Meitetsu limited express network

Major stations in Nagoya

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Nagoya Line (east side) and Toyokawa Line

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Tokoname Line, Chikkō Line, and Airport Line

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Kōwa Line and Chita New Line

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Mikawa Line, Toyota Line, Nishio Line, and Gamagōri Line

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Nagoya Line (west side), Takehana Line, and Hashima Line

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Tsushima Line and Bisai Line

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Inuyama Line, Kakamigahara Line, and Hiromi Line

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Komaki Line

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Seto Line

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Rolling stock

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Meitetsu 1000 series "Panorama Super" (left) and 2000 series "Airport Limited Express [μみゅーSky]" (right)

Nippon Sharyo has produced nearly every car that Meitetsu operates or has operated, a notable exception being its Class EL120, an electric locomotive, which was produced by Toshiba, but very few units were produced for Meitetsu. The Class EL120 is one of the few locomotives that Meitetsu possesses.

The following are the train types that Meitetsu operates today, as well as selected types that Meitetsu has retired.

Limited express

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Commuter

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Meitetsu 5000 series commuter train

Withdrawn train types

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Meitetsu 7000 series "Panorama Car" train

Electric locomotives

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Rationalization

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Tamatsu-ura Station, one of the stations that were closed due to low passengers

As Meitetsu formed out of multiple mergers, it owned many deficit lines previously owned by other companies. The railway lines were also seeing competition from cars, due to the fact that Aichi prefecture has a notable automobile industry in cities such as Toyota. Meitetsu has abolished over 15 lines over the past 70 years, while also closing sections with low ridership.[11] Additionally, with the collapse of Bubble economy in the 1990s, and the privatization of JNR, formation of Central Japan Railway Company, the company also cut the number of companies in its corporate group from 250 to 139.[12]

References

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  1. ^ 鷲田わしだ, 鉄也てつや (September 2010), "名古屋なごや鉄道てつどう 1", 週刊しゅうかん朝日あさひ百科ひゃっか, 週刊しゅうかん歴史れきしでめぐる鉄道てつどう全ぜん路線ろせん (in Japanese), no. 8, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 21, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9
  2. ^ "Organizational Chart" (PDF). Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  3. ^ "Overview of the Meitetsu Group for Fiscal 2018" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 20, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
  4. ^ "名古屋鉄道なごやてつどう株式会社かぶしきがいしゃ | 日本にっぽん民営みんえい鉄道てつどう協会きょうかい". www.mintetsu.or.jp. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  5. ^ 鷲田わしだ, 鉄也てつや (September 2010), "名古屋なごや鉄道てつどう 1", 週刊しゅうかん朝日あさひ百科ひゃっか, 週刊しゅうかん歴史れきしでめぐる鉄道てつどう全ぜん路線ろせん (in Japanese), no. 8, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 20, ISBN 978-4-02-340138-9
  6. ^ 鷲田わしだ, 鉄也てつや (September 2010), "週刊しゅうかん歴史れきしでめぐる鉄道てつどう全ぜん路線ろせん大手おおて私鉄してつ: 名古屋なごや鉄道てつどう", 週刊しゅうかん朝日あさひ百科ひゃっか (in Japanese), no. 9, Japan: Asahi Shimbun Publications, Inc., p. 10, ISBN 978-4-02-340139-6
  7. ^ 佐藤さとう, 信之のぶゆき (June 19, 2004), "高度こうど経済けいざい成長せいちょう期きの鉄道てつどう整備せいび―昭和しょうわ30～40年代ねんだい", 地下鉄ちかてつの歴史れきし首都しゅと圏けん・中部ちゅうぶ・近畿きんき圏けん (in Japanese), グランプリ出版しゅっぱん, p. 129, ISBN 4-87687-260-0
  8. ^ "なごや色しょくさんぽ#２【名鉄めいてつ電車でんしゃの「スカーレットレッド」】 | ICD国際こくさいカラーデザイン協会きょうかい". icd-color.com. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  9. ^ "赤あかい電車でんしゃ｢名鉄めいてつ｣､今いま振ふり返かえる昭和しょうわ･平成へいせいの記憶きおく". 東洋とうよう経済けいざいオンライン (in Japanese). May 1, 2019. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  10. ^ "名鉄めいてつ貨物かもつ輸送ゆそう". tsushima-keibendo.a.la9.jp. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  11. ^ "OpenId transaction in progress". plus.chunichi.co.jp. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
  12. ^ "JR東海とうかいの攻勢こうせいをかわした｢名鉄めいてつ｣の復活ふっかつ劇げき". 東洋とうよう経済けいざいオンライン (in Japanese). October 20, 2016. Retrieved May 11, 2024.
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