Musashi-Shiraishi Station

Musashi-Shiraishi Station 武蔵白石駅
Musashi-Shiraishi Station, November 2005
Location
Prefecture	Kanagawa (See other stations in Kanagawa)
City	Kawasaki
Ward	Kawasaki
Neighborhood etc.	1-5 Shiraishi-chō
Postal Code	210-0857
(in Japanese)	川崎市川崎区白石町1-5
History
Year opened	1931
Rail services
Operator(s)	JR East
Line(s)	Tsurumi Line
Statistics	1,601 passengers/day [1]

Musashi-Shiraishi Station (武蔵白石駅, Musashi-Shiraishi-eki^?) is a railway station operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

Lines

Musashi-Shiraishi Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is 4.1 kilometers from the terminus at Tsurumi Station. The station is located at the junction of the main route of the Tsurumi Line and its branch to Ōkawa, however the platform for the branch line at the station was removed in 1996 so that only mainline trains now stop at the station.

Station layout

Station platforms, September 2010

Former Ōkawa branch platform, August 1980

Musashi-Shiraishi Station has a two opposed side platforms serving two tracks.

Platforms

1	■Tsurumi Line	for Hama-Kawasaki and Ōgimachi
2	■Tsurumi Line	for Asano, Bentembashi and Tsurumi

Adjacent stations

«		Service		»
Tsurumi Line
Anzen		Main Line	Hama-Kawasaki

History

Musashi-Shiraishi Station was opened on March 10, 1926 as a station on the privately-held Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道, Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō^?) initially for freight operations only. The station was closed on November 15, 1930 and reopened as the Musashi-Shiraishi Stop for passenger services only from July 26, 1931. It was elevated in status to that of a full station on March 17, 1936. The line was nationalized on July 1, 1943 and was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways network. The station has been unstaffed since March 1, 1971. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987 the station has been operated by JR East.

The short platform for the Ōkawa branch line was used until 1996, when the branch line started operating three-car trains that were longer than the platform.

References

• Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7

1. ^ Kawasaki City statistics. Average number of boarding passengers in 2008.

External links

Media related to Musashi-Shiraishi Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Musashi-Shiraishi Station (Japanese)

Coordinates: 35°30′6.76″N 139°42′23.6″E / 35.5018778°N 139.706556°E / 35.5018778; 139.706556