Keifuku Electric Railroad
- Keifuku Electric Railroad
nihongo|Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., Ltd.|京福電気鉄道株式会社|Keifuku Denki Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha is a railroad company based in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan (but with offices in Fukui Prefecture) in operation since March 2, 1942. [Cite web|url=http://www.keifuku.co.jp/company/index.html |language=Japanese|title=会社概要：京福電気鉄道|accessdate=2007-03-22] It is a parent company of Keifuku Bus, and an affiliated company of Keihan Electric Railway. [Cite web|url=http://www.keihan.co.jp/companyprofile/pdf/21-22.pdf|language=Japanese|title=会社案内：京阪グループネットワーク|accessdate=2007-03-22]
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This railway [cite book |title= JTB Timetable No. 975 (April 2007)|language=Japanese |publisher= JTB Corporation|location= Tokyo|pages= pp. 836, 839] started service in 1910, operated at that time by Nihongo|Arashiyama Electric Tram Railway|嵐山電車軌道|Arashiyama Densha Kidō. It was transferred to the Kyoto-based electric power generation company Nihongo|Kyoto Dento|京都電燈|Kyōto Dentō. Later it built the Kitano Line. [Cite book | title = Shitetsushi Handobukku (私鉄史ハンドブック)| language = Japanese | year = 1993 | publisher = Denkisha Kenkyūkai (電気車研究会) | location = Tokyo | pages = p. 127 | author = Wakuda, Yasuo (和久田康雄) | ISBN = 4-88548-065-5 ] :
*Randen tram lines
**Arashiyama Main Line (嵐山本線), 7.2 km
**Kitano Line (北野線), 3.8 km
*Eizan Cable (叡山鋼索線), 1.3 km (Funicular)
*Eizan Ropeway (叡山ロープウェイ), 0.5 km (Aerial tramway)
The Main Line connects Kyoto's city center (Shijo-Omiya terminal) and scenic Arashiyama area in the western suburb. The Kitano Line is from Kitano Hakubaicho Station near Kitano Tenman-gū to Katabiranotsuji Station in the midst of Main Line. The cable and ropeway lines are for visitors to Mount Hiei on the northeastern edge of the city, together with Eizan Electric Railway's Eizan Main Line.
Formerly the company operated several railway lines in Fukui Prefecture. Some of them are now operated by Echizen Railway. [Cite book|author=Kokudo Kōtsū Shō Tetsudō Kyoku|title=Tetsudō Yōran (Heisei 15 Nendo)|year=2003|language=Japanese|publisher=Denkisha Kenkyūkai|location=Tokyo|isbn=4885481031]
The Eizan Electric Railway also belonged to Keifuku until 1985.
Etymology
"Keifuku" is comprised of two letters "京" and "福", former denotes Kyoto, latter Fukui. Lines of then Kyoto Dento were in Fukui of its hydraulic source and in the area of supply in Kyoto, thus named after Kyoto and Fukui. Often mistaken is that the company has or had a plan to connect their lines of the two prefectures.
References
External links
* [http://www.keifuku.co.jp/ Keifuku Electric Railroad]
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