Japanese Railways information

Japanese Railways may refer to: Japanese Government Railways Japanese National Railways Japan Railways Group Japanese railway signals Nippon Railway Rail...

The Japanese National Railways (日本国有鉄道, Nihon Kokuyū Tetsudō or Nippon Kokuyū Tetsudō) abbreviated JNR or Kokutetsu (国鉄), was the business entity that...

reform on the Japanese Wikipedia) of the government-owned Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987. It consists of six passenger railway companies...

they operate on. Japan's railways carried 31 million tons (21 billion tonne-kilometres) of goods in 2013–14. The share of railways in the national logistics...

The East Japan Railway Company is a major passenger railway company in Japan, the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name...

half-private. The Japan Railways Group consists of the seven companies that were formed after the privatization of the Japanese National Railways. Passenger...

The West Japan Railway Company, also referred to as JR West (JR西日本, Jeiāru Nishi-Nihon), is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates...

railway lines in Japan lists existing railway lines in Japan alphabetically. The vast majority of Japanese railways are classified under two Japanese...

the Japanese Government Railways, the Japanese National Railways and the Japan Railways Group. Prior to the nationalization of Japanese railways in 1906...

Station. The Japan Railways Group was founded on 1 April 1987, when Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatized. Japanese National Railways was divided...

Russo-Japanese war; Stage 2, from nationalization in 1906-07 to the end of World War II; Stage 3, from the postwar creation of Japanese National Railways to...

Railway Topics Short segment which features the latest themes in railways. Hands-on Railway History Russell Totten visits railway museums in Japan and...

It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and in Japanese as JR Tōkai (Japanese: JR東海). Tōkai is a reference to the geographical region in which...

Japanese railway signals, according to the ministerial decree defining technical standards of railways (鉄道に関する技術上の基準を定める省令, Tetsudō ni kansuru gijutsu...

network. It is owned by the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency and operated by five Japan Railways Group companies. Starting with...

introduced by Japanese National Railways (JNR) in 1977 and operated by all Japan Railways Group companies on suburban and rural services in Japan. Since 2017...

the Japanese "lost decades". In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, during which Japan was...

gauge, all electrified. Electrification systems used by the Japan Railways Group, Japan's formerly state-owned operators, are 1,500 V DC and 20 kV AC...

on Japanese railways, where it is referred to as shisa kanko (指差喚呼), shisa kakunin kanko (指差確認喚呼) or yubisashi koshō (指差呼称); and in Chinese railways, where...

metropolitan areas. Seven Japan Railways Group companies, state-owned until 1987, cover most parts of Japan. There also are railway services operated by private...

Kadokawa Pictures Japanese National Railways 日本国有鉄道 - Reorganized into Japan Railways Group Japan Post 日本郵政公社 - Reorganized into Japan Post Group Koei and...

private railways because of their unique status as the primary successors of the Japanese National Railways (JNR). Voluntary sector railways (semi-public)...

Tōkyō Station (Japanese: 東京駅, pronounced [to̞ːkʲo̞ːe̞kʲi]) is a major railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's...

Hokkaido Railway Company (北海道旅客鉄道株式会社, Hokkaidō Ryokaku Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha) is one of the constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (JR...

The Yokosuka Line (Japanese: 横須賀線, Hepburn: Yokosuka-sen) is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The Yokosuka...

it has been operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), prior to that by Japanese National Railways (JNR). There are three types of services...

rolling stock division from October 2021. Products produced for the Japan Railways Group, or JR Group, include: Shinkansen: All types except N700A series...

former Japanese National Railways (JNR) after its privatization in the mid-1980s. On October 22, 1998, the JNRSC was disbanded and placed under the Japan Railway...