Mihara Line

Mihara Line

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General

Status	Operational
Locale	Lamtsu
Termini	Mihara Lamtsu Yamate Tai Hing Forest
Stations	11

Service

Type	Commuter Rail
Operator(s)	Harmony Rail Transit (Lamtsu)

Technical

Line Length	9km
Operating speed	120km/h

Route Map

The Mihara Line is a suburban commuter line operated by Harmony Rail Transit (Lamtsu), and is the primary railway connection to the Tai Hing peninsula in the west of Lamtsu. Trains are dispatched from Lamtsu Depot and Nanae Depot.

History

The Mihara Line was the 3rd HRT line in Lamtsu, and the 2nd to be constructed by HRT. The first stage of the line opened in 1982, from Misato to Mihara. The next section opened in 1998, from Mihara to Hayakawa, folllowed by the completion of the line as we know today in 2008, extending all the way to Tai Hing. At this stage, new services began to run on the Mihara Line. The section from Mihara to Hayakawa was split off into a separate line, with services terminating at Mihara. This line would later become the Ome Line. Rapid and Local services would run from Misato to Tai Hing, with express services terminating at Mihara.

The Mihara Line would be extended to Lamtsu in 2021, following a 15 year issue over NIMBY land acquisition to sextuple-track the section between Lamtsu and Misato. This allowed Express services to take over the old Rapid service trains, and ran from Yamate to Mihara. This also led to the creation of the Suburban service, which ran from Mihara to Hayakawa on the Ome Line.

In the 2022 Great Lamtsu Railway Rebuild, the Mihara Line would see the speed limits be lowered from 160 to 120 along most of the line, and Rapid services would not run on the single-tracked section from Mihara to Tai Hing (Now Tai Hing forest). Evidence of this can be found in the platforms at Tai Hing and Otaki, where the platforms are significantly longer than the train.

The previous E44 rolling stock was replaced by the E233-100 series in 2022.

The Hakone Line runs on Mihara Line tracks, excluding the spur line to Tai Hing (Shinkansen Station)

The Mihara Line is connected to Lamtsu Freight Terminal, and is used by express freight trains that have high speeds. Other freight trains reverse at Kata and continue via the Ome Line.

Services

Officially, the Mihara Line is broken up into several sections, so ridership data from the Mihara Line only includes data from the section known as the Mihara Line, with parts of the line not officially included discounted.

The Suburban service was discontinued on the 1st July 2022 due to the Ome Line rebuild. The former Express service was then rebranded as the Rapid.

The line is single-tracked from Mihara to Tai Hing Forest. Trains can pass each other at Saito station.

No,	Station Name	Station Name (English)	Local	Rapid (Seasonal)	Rapid	Suburban	Hakone Line	Between	Distance	Transfers	Line	Region
	For Express: Through Service from Yamate
NB05	楠梓	Lamtsu	●	N.A	●	●	N.A	-	0.0	Seiyo Shinkansen Tozai Line Namboku Line Yamate Line	Namboku Line	Lamtsu City
MH01	美里	Misato	●	●	●	●	N.A	1.5	1.5	Yamate Line Namboku Line Ome Line Sakuho Line Misato City Tram Ome Heritage Line	Mihara Line	Misato City
MH02	篠栗	Sasaguri	●	|	|	|	N.A	1.2	2.7
MH03	津和野	Tsuwano	●	▲	●	|	N.A	1.3	4.0	Heritage Ome Line Iizuna Line		Mihara
MH04	西三原	Higashi-Mihara	●	|	|	|	N.A	0.9	4.9
MH05	三原	Mihara	●	▲	●	●	N.A	0.3	5.2	Ome Line
MH06	斎藤	Saito	●	|	N.A	N.A	N.A	1.7	6.9			Saito City
MH07 HK01	大多喜	Otaki	|	|	N.A	N.A	N.A	0.5	7.4
HK02	士幌	Shihoro	|	|	N.A	N.A	●	0.7	8.1		Hakone Line	Hakone
HK03	箱根	Hakone	|	●	N.A	N.A	●	0.4	8.5
MH08 HK04	大慶林	Tai Hing Forest	●	▲	N.A	N.A	●	0.2	8.7	Tai Hing Tram		Tai Hing
HK05	大慶	Tai Hing	N.A	N.A	N.A	N.A	●	0.3	9.0	Seiyo Shinkansen
	Through Service to the Ome Line for Suburban