- Higashi-Kokura Station
is a freight
railway station on theKagoshima Main Line , operated byJapan Freight Railway Company inKokura Kita-ku, Kitakyūshū ,Japan . Presently it handles no trains.History
The station originally served both passenger and freight trains. It opened on
April 1 ,1915 as the terminal of the Kokura Railway, the predecessor of theHitahikosan Line . When theJapanese Government Railways purchased the Kokura Railway onMay 1 ,1943 , the station was reestablished on theKagoshima Main Line as a junction of the two lines, but the station served no passenger trains on the Kagoshima Main Line. The passenger service at the station was ceased onNovember 19 ,1956 as the section between Higashi-Kokura and on the Hitahikosan Line ceased to operate passenger trains.Although the freight-only section of the Hitahikosan Line was closed on
October 1 ,1962 , the station continued the freight operation on the Kagoshima Main Line untilMarch 23 ,2002 when the newKitakyūshū Freight Terminal Station opened. The station has not been officially closed.References
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