Shimo-Soga Station (下曽我駅) is a ground-level station in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight) both run it. It began on 1 May 1911 as a signal station and became a station on 15 May 1922.
History
The Shimo-Soga signal station opened on 1 May 1911 on the national railway Tōkaidō Line, between Kōzu and Matsuda. On 17 April 1922 it was renamed the Shimo-Soga signal yard. On 15 May 1922 it became a station, and passenger and freight service began.
On 1 September 1923 the Great Kanto Earthquake caused the station building to collapse. On 1 December 1934 the Tōkaidō Line section from Kōzu through Shimo-Soga to Numazu was renamed the Gotemba Line. On 11 July 1943 the Gotemba Line was made single-track. Freight handling ended on 21 August 1962.
On 1 October 1967 freight handling for private sidings resumed, at about the same time as the Sumitomo Cement Shimo-Soga service station opened. On 27 April 1968 the station yard was electrified as the Kōzu to Gotemba section was electrified. Parcel handling ended on 1 February 1984. On 1 April 1987 the national railway was split up, and the station became part of JR Central and JR Freight. Station staffing hours were changed in March 1998. Freight train service was discontinued on 3 October 1998.
TOICA could be used on the Numazu side of the station from 2 March 2019. It could be used on the Kōzu side from 13 March 2021. A customer support service is planned for March 2027.
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