Hamakawasaki Station
Hamakawasaki is a railway station in Tokyo.
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History, melodies, surroundingsIt opened as the terminus of the Japanese Government Railways Tokaido Main Line freight branch line, as a freight station.
Machine translation — show Japanese original
鉄道院東海道本線貨物支線の終着駅として開設。貨物駅。
Tsurumi Rinkō Railway opened and connected.
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鶴見臨港鉄道が開業し接続。
Tsurumi Rinkō Railway's freight station, Watari-da Station, was opened.
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鶴見臨港鉄道の貨物駅として渡田駅（わたりだえき）が開設。
The Nambu Railway connected and Shinhamakawasaki Station was also opened within the same line.
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南武鉄道が接続。同線内に新浜川崎駅（しんはまかわさきえき）も開設される。
Shin-Hamakawasaki Station began passenger operations.
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新浜川崎駅の旅客営業を開始。
Watarida Station began passenger operations.
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渡田駅の旅客営業を開始。
Tsurumi Rinkō Railway was nationalized and became the Tsurumi Line of the Railway Ministry, later Japanese National Railways, and passenger operations began at Hamakawasaki Station after merging Watarada Station into it and using it as the Tsurumi Line platform.
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鶴見臨港鉄道が国有化、鉄道省（のち運輸通信省を経て日本国有鉄道）鶴見線となる。渡田駅を浜川崎駅に統合し鶴見線ホームとし、浜川崎駅の旅客営業を開始。
The Nambu Railway was nationalized and became the Nambu Line of the Ministry of Transport and Communications, and Shinhamakawasaki Station was merged into Hamakawasaki Station and became the Nambu Line platform.
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南武鉄道が国有化、運輸通信省南武線となる。新浜川崎駅を浜川崎駅に統合し南武線ホームとする。
Handling of general freight cargo was abolished.
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一般車扱貨物取扱廃止。
At the time, it was the starting point station for transporting US military fuel for the Vietnam War to Tachikawa Base and Yokota Base.
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代には、ベトナム戦争の米軍用燃料を立川基地、横田基地に輸送する起点駅だった。
The Tsurumi Line's ticket gates were unmanned.
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鶴見線改札を無人化。
With the division and privatization of JNR, the station became a stop for East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight), and the Tōkaidō Freight Line was reorganized into the Shinbashi - Hamamatsuchō - Shinagawa and Tsurumi - Yatomi sections.
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国鉄分割民営化により、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）・日本貨物鉄道（JR貨物）の駅となる。東海道貨物線品川 - 当駅 - 鶴見間が品川 - 浜松町 - 当駅と鶴見 - 八丁畷に整理される。
The Nambu Line ticket gates were unmanned.
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南武線改札を無人化。
Suica service began.
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Suica供用開始。
Automatic ticket vending machine operation ended.
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自動券売機の営業終了。
Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What train lines connect at Hamakawasaki Station?
Hamakawasaki Station is served by Nambu Line, JI Tsurumi Line.