岩島駅

Iwashima Station

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10 Events

1945 1月2日

It opened as Iwajima Signal Station.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

岩島信号場として開業。

1945 8月5日

It was elevated to a freight station and Iwajima Station opened.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

貨物駅に昇格。岩島駅開業。

1945 11月20日

Passenger operations began.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

旅客取り扱い開始。

1961 9月1日

Freight handling was abolished.

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貨物取扱廃止。

1971 2月1日

Freight handling was abolished and the station was unmanned.

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荷物扱い廃止。無人化。

1985 2月

As part of the scrapping of freight cars being carried out as a measure to address surplus personnel at the Takasaki Railway Management Bureau at the time, a waiting room was installed by remodeling surplus freight cars.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

当時の高崎鉄道管理局の余剰人員対策で行われていた貨車解体の一環として、余剰貨車を改装した待合室を設置。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it becomes a JR East station.

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国鉄分割民営化に伴い、JR東日本の駅となる。

2002

The station building was rebuilt.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

駅舎改築。

2014 9月24日

The station ended commercial operations on the former line to switch to a new line from the station to Nagano-Harukuzu due to the start of the main construction work on the Yamba Dam.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

八ッ場ダムの本体建設工事が開始されることに伴い、当駅から長野原草津口までの区間を新線へ切り替えるため、従前線（旧線）を使っての営業運転を終了。

2014 10月1日

The section from this station to Naganohara-Kusatsuguchi was switched to the new line, and commercial operations on the entire Agatsuma Line were resumed via the new line, and it was incorporated into the Tokyo suburban area.

Machine translation — show Japanese original

当駅から長野原草津口までの区間が新線に切り替えられ、新線経由で吾妻線全線の営業運転を再開。東京近郊区間に編入される。

Timeline adapted from Japanese Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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