Japan Freight Railway Company
The Nihon Kamotsu tetsudō K. K. (Japanese日本 货物 鉄 道 株式会社, shortly JR货物jeiāru, Kamotsu; engl Japan Freight Railway Company, shortly JR Freight JRF respectively. ) is one of the seven successor companies of the Japanese National Railways.
It was founded on 1 April 1987 during the privatization of the railway sector in Japan and operates the nation's rail freight. It is 100 % owned by a self -regulatory body ( Dokuritsu Gyosei Hojin ) under MLIT - supervision, tetsudō KENSETSU un'yu shisetsu seibi shien Kiko (鉄 道 建设·运输 施 设 整 备 支援 机构, literally as " organization to support establishment and maintenance of railway and traffic, " engl. Japan Railway Construction, transport and Technology Agency ).
- 3.1 Current vehicle developments
Company figures
The JR Freight is running on a line network of about 8400 km with 250 stations. On this day are on average 580 trains travel. These lay back 219,000 train - km per day and provide a transport capacity of 20.4 billion tonnes - km per year. A total of 31.05 million (as of fiscal year 2009/10) were transported tons of goods.
Route network
The JR Freight has only about 50 km own route network. This mainly consists of connecting lines to the individual goods stations of society. These are connected to the approximately 19,800 km long route networks of the six passenger traveling regional Japan Railways companies, which is shared by the JR Freight. This railway network is held in Cape gauge and electrified with 1,500 V DC, 20 kV, 50 Hz or 60 Hz AC voltage. The Shinkansen high-speed network to standard gauge is not currently busy. By including the Shinkansen traffic through the Seikan Tunnel in 2015 that section of the first to be with Shinkansen / Freight mixed traffic.
List of railway lines owned by the JR Freight
Rolling stock
Due to the different power systems in Japan, the JR Freight has traction units for DC, AC and multi-system vehicles. Overall, the company has 490 electric locomotives, 227 diesel locomotives and railcars 2. To this end, it has 8,033 container wagons and 533 other wagons. 2,588 wagons of other companies are managed by the JR Freight. (As of April 1, 2010) A portion of this rolling stock was acquired by the JNR. Partly also modern vehicles were purchased new. The JR Freight takes on with their locomotive-hauled trains a special role in the marked by railcar railways in Japan. So it was until 2010 the only successor of JNR that since privatization in 1987 presented new locomotives into service. These were since 1990, the EF200 electric locomotives, diesel locomotives since 1992, DF 200, since 1996, the EF210 electric locomotive and a year later EH500. In 2001, two new series were put into service with the electric locomotives and EH200 EF510. A variant of the latter was taken over by JR East 2010 as passenger locomotives for the night trains. In the same year the JR Freight set with the HD300 their first hybrid locomotives in service.
- Diesel locomotives JNR: DD51, DE10, DE11
- JR: DF200
- JNR: EF64, EF65, EF66, EF67
- JR: EF200, EF210, EH200
- JNR: ED75, ED76, ED79
- JNR: EF81
- JR: EF510, EH500
Current vehicle developments
The opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen from Aomori to Hokuto 2015, the Seikan Tunnel for the currently slow moving freight trains no longer be available due to missing routes. Therefore, the JR Hokkaido and JR Freight working on concepts 200 km / h high-speed freight trains. This should be able to use the route, together with the Shinkansen in mixed traffic. For this purpose the Schnellfahrlok EH 800 is developed, which is then the so-called Train on Train (トレインオン· ·トレイン, Torein on Torein, dt " train leaves train " ) to draw. This project provides for the Cape gauge trains, similar to drive as the trolley system on a standard gauge train set fully dressed. This protects the cargo from the pressure fluctuations by oncoming rail vehicles in the tunnel.
Goods in transit
The cargo volume of JR Freight has been declining for years. Transported to the founding in 1987 56.3 million tons of cargo in 2005 was only 37.1 million tons and 31.0 million tons in 2010. Conversely, the Containerisierungsrate increased significantly. Were moved only 25% of the mass of commodities in the container in the founding year, as it was in 2005 already 60 % and 2010, two-thirds. For this traffic, the JR Freight in total 62,600 own and 2,600 private specially suitable for the Japanese gauge container stops in front. A majority of the 10.5 million tons of non - containerized goods made in 2010 with 7.2 million tonnes of petroleum products and automobiles with 1.0 million tons.