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a) The primary function of a school bus is to pick up children. The Railways have different priorities. b) Of course, way more expensive (operationally and fin

by jeswin 11y ago

a) The primary function of a school bus is to pick up children. The Railways have different priorities. b) Of course, way more expensive (operationally and financially) to run a train and maintain a railway line. Add: This story made my day.

tempestn 11y ago
Technically it just says the station is closing. It's possible the line will remain operational. (The train might be going by there anyway.) Although it did say the schedule was adjusted for the student, so maybe not. Edit, ah, so I guess a bunch of trains go by, and adjusting the schedule basically means deciding which trains stop at that station, not changing when trains run.
- hkmurakami 11y ago
  Japanese Twitter tells me that once this station closes, there will be a 40 minute section of the railway that won't have any stops. The line itself will remain operational.
  - rtkwe 11y ago
    Looking at Google Maps the change won't be terribly drastic in reality [0] unless the station just over 3 km further down the line closes too. For a person walking it's a decent distance but for the rest of the passengers there would be very little change. Of course the same could be said for pretty much any station that closed between there before now. [0] https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk
    - hkmurakami 11y ago
      Unfortunately my source is second hand as well from a Japanese discussion thread, so my information may be faulty. One possibility is that the station 3km away is already out of operation (and I do recall someone posting that a nearby station did already shut down). In either case I think you are right that for 99% of the passenger life will go on as it always has.
- pcurve 11y ago
  There are still plenty of stops before and after. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kami-Shirataki+Station/@43.876495,143.1431023,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb12990146a8e54ea https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kami-Shirataki+Station/@43... Kamikawa station to the west actually has sizeable population.

by jeswin 11y ago

tempestn 11y ago

Technically it just says the station is closing. It's possible the line will remain operational. (The train might be going by there anyway.) Although it did say the schedule was adjusted for the student, so maybe not. Edit, ah, so I guess a bunch of trains go by, and adjusting the schedule basically means deciding which trains stop at that station, not changing when trains run.

hkmurakami 11y ago
Japanese Twitter tells me that once this station closes, there will be a 40 minute section of the railway that won't have any stops. The line itself will remain operational.
- rtkwe 11y ago
  Looking at Google Maps the change won't be terribly drastic in reality [0] unless the station just over 3 km further down the line closes too. For a person walking it's a decent distance but for the rest of the passengers there would be very little change. Of course the same could be said for pretty much any station that closed between there before now. [0] https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk https://goo.gl/maps/cqZBrzvjJJk
  - hkmurakami 11y ago
    Unfortunately my source is second hand as well from a Japanese discussion thread, so my information may be faulty. One possibility is that the station 3km away is already out of operation (and I do recall someone posting that a nearby station did already shut down). In either case I think you are right that for 99% of the passenger life will go on as it always has.
pcurve 11y ago
There are still plenty of stops before and after. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kami-Shirataki+Station/@43.876495,143.1431023,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb12990146a8e54ea https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kami-Shirataki+Station/@43... Kamikawa station to the west actually has sizeable population.