Yue Station

Railway station in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

32°54′15″N 130°08′25″E / 32.9043°N 130.1404°E / 32.9043; 130.1404Operated by

JR KyushuLine(s)■ Nagasaki Main LineDistance87.6 km from TosuPlatforms1 side + 1 island platformsTracks3 + 1 sidingConstructionStructure typeAt gradeAccessibleNo - platforms linked by footbridgeOther informationStatusUnstaffedWebsiteOfficial websiteHistoryOpened24 March 1934 (1934-03-24)PassengersFY2014253 daily

Location
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Yue Station (湯江駅, Yue-eki) is a railway station on the Nagasaki Main Line in Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu and is on the Nagasaki Main Line.^[1]^[2]

Lines

The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 87.6 km from the starting point of the line at Tosu.^[3]

Station layout

The station consists of a side and an island platform serving three tracks with a siding branching off track 1. The station building is a simple timber structure and is unstaffed, serving only as a waiting room with an automatic ticket vending machine. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.^[3]^[2]

The island platform in September 2015

Adjacent stations

«		Service	»
Nagasaki Main Line
Nagasato		Local	Oe

History

Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea. In a phase of construction of what was at first called the Ariake West Line, a track was built from Isahaya (on the existing Nagasaki Main Line) north to Yue which opened on 24 March 1934 as the terminus of the track. A few months later, link up was made from Yue to Tara (which had been extended south from Hizen-Yamaguchi). With through traffic achieved from Hizen-Yamaguchi on the new route to Nagasaki, the entire stretch of track was designated as part of the Nagasaki Main Line on 1 December 1934. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.^[4]^[5]

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2014, there were a total of 92,199 boarding passengers, given a daily average of 253 passengers.^[6]

Surrounding area

Isahaya Municipal Takaki Junior High School
Yue Elementary School
Wadoji Temple

References

^ "JR Kyushu Route Map" (PDF). JR Kyushu. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "湯江" [Yue]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b Kawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道四国・九州ライン全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻長崎佐賀エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 22, 67. ISBN 9784062951647.
^ Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 222–3. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 715. ISBN 4-533-02980-9.
^ "第63版（平成28年）長崎県統計年鑑" [Nagasaki Prefecture Statistics Yearbook 63rd Edition 2016]. Nagasaki Prefectural Government website. Retrieved 16 March 2018. See table at section under Transportation and Communications.