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18 Events

1883 12月27日

The station opened simultaneously with the opening of the section between Honjo and this station, becoming the first station to open in Gunma Prefecture and the northern Kanto region, comprising Gunma, Tochigi, and Ibaraki prefectures.

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日本鉄道本庄駅 - 当駅間開通と同時に開業。群馬県内および北関東（群馬県・栃木県・茨城県）で最初に開業した駅となった。

1884 5月1日

The section between this station and Takasaki Station opened.

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当駅 - 高崎駅間が開通。

1906 11月1日

The station became a government railway station due to the nationalization of Nippon Railway.

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日本鉄道の国有化により、官設鉄道の駅となる。

1934 11月12日

The Imperial train carrying the Showa Emperor ran between Shinmachi Station and Maebashi Station along the line during a special large-scale military exercise.

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沿線で陸軍特別大演習。昭和天皇乗車のお召し列車が新町駅 - 前橋駅間で運行。

1939 12月8日

A freight train involved in shunting operations within the yard came into contact with a semi-express train bound for Oyama and Niigata from Ueno Station, resulting in the derailment and overturning of both locomotives and five passenger cars, killing one person and injuring 13.

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構内で入換作業中の貨物列車と上野駅発小山・新潟行の準急列車が接触。両方の機関車と客車5両が脱線転覆し、死者1人、負傷者13人。

1980 10月1日

The handling of carload freight, excluding dedicated line operations, was abolished.

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専用線発着を除く車扱貨物の取扱を廃止。

1984 2月1日

Freight handling was abolished.

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荷物の取扱を廃止。

1985 3月14日

The New Limited Express began making stops.

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新特急が停車開始になる。

1987 2月1日

The Midori-no-Madoguchi ticket office was opened.

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みどりの窓口開設。

1987 4月1日

With the privatization of Japanese National Railways, it became a station of East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

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国鉄分割民営化に伴い、東日本旅客鉄道（JR東日本）と日本貨物鉄道（JR貨物）の駅となる。

1998 4月1日

The regular freight train service was abolished.

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定期貨物列車の設定廃止。

2001 11月18日

The IC card "Suica" becomes available for use.

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ICカード「Suica」の利用が可能となる。

2016 3月10日

Early morning unmanned operation.

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早朝無人化。

2019

Reiwa 1

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（令和元年）

2019 3月

With the CTCization of the Takasaki Line, operating handling duties at the station came to an end, including signal control of Kitafujioka Station, which was also handled by this station.

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高崎線CTC化により、当駅での運転取扱業務が終了（北藤岡駅の信号制御も当駅が行っていた）。

2019 7月1日

Operations were outsourced.

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業務委託化。

2021 5月25日

Elevators were installed on the upper and lower line platforms, one on each.

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上下線ホームにエレベーターを1基ずつ設置。

2022 12月15日

The Midori no Madoguchi service ended operations.

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みどりの窓口の営業を終了。

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

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