Kuroiso Station (黒磯駅) is in Nasushiobara, Tochigi Prefecture. East Japan Railway Company (JR East) runs the station. Lines served: Utsunomiya Line.
History
The station opened on 1 December 1886 as a Nippon Railway station. A locomotive shed and a maintenance section were set up beside it. On 1 November 1906 the railway was nationalized. On 12 October 1909 the station became part of the Tōhoku Main Line. On 11 April 1921 the locomotive shed was cut back to a sub-depot, because helper engines were no longer needed. On 14 November 1921 the maintenance section moved to Shirakawa. On 1 July 1926 the station building, footbridge and platforms were rebuilt, with a royal room inside the station.
On 10 March 1959 an electric locomotive depot was set up for the electrification of the Tōhoku Main Line. On 22 May 1959 the line from Hōshakuji station to here was electrified with direct current. On 1 July 1959 the line from here to Shirakawa was electrified with alternating current, and ground-switching equipment was installed. On 2 December 1970 a Midori no Madoguchi ticket office opened. On 12 May 1978 a temporary station building was built for the Tōhoku Shinkansen works. On 9 September 1980 the present station building opened.
On 1 October 1975 the new limited express Tsubasa began stopping here. On 1 February 1984 freight handling ended, and the station became a passenger-only station. On 14 March 1985 express trains other than night and special trains stopped running here. On 1 April 1987 the station became part of JR East, and the freight business went to JR Freight. On 1 December 1993 most limited express trains that had stopped here were cut or made special trains.
On 16 October 2004 Suica became usable, though only toward Utsunomiya. On 17 September 2008 a maintenance worker touched a power line by mistake and died from an electric shock. On 26 March 2010 direct-current electric locomotives stopped running through, and freight trains no longer changed locomotives here. On 4 December 2010 the Ohayō Tochigi and Hometown Tochigi limited expresses were cancelled, so no regular express trains stopped here. On 11 March 2011 the Great East Japan Earthquake closed the line north and south of the station. Service to the south resumed on 16 March 2011. Service to the north resumed on 17 April 2014, and for about a month a temporary bus ran from Nasu-Shiobara to Kōriyama. On 21 March 2016 the last up Cassiopeia sleeper train arrived at Ueno, ending through passenger services that crossed the station. On 2 June 2017 a staff member wrongly sent direct current into the overhead line of an AC local train, and equipment on a Fukushima-bound train shorted and smoked. On 14 October 2017 AC trains stopped running into the station. On 3 January 2018 the station became fully direct current.
In 2019 station staff created three original characters, a cow, a nine-tailed fox and an alpaca, which were used in station illustrations and colouring sheets. On 14 March 2020 services between Kuroiso and Shin-Shirakawa became one-man operation. On 1 December 2021 the station stamp was renewed. On 12 March 2022 trains between Kuroiso and Utsunomiya became one-man operation, and Green car and Ueno–Tokyo Line services into the station ended. On 19 October 2023 the Tokyo area transport control system (ATOS) began. On 29 February 2024 the Midori no Madoguchi ticket office closed.
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