Ryōmō Line

Railway line in Japan

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Ryōmō Line

A JR East 211 series EMU at Ōhirashita in June 2020

Overview
Locale| Gunma, Tochigi prefectures
Termini|

* Oyama
* Shin-Maebashi

Stations| 19
Service
Operator(s)| JR East
History
Opened| 1889
Technical
Line length| 84.4 km (52.4 mi)
Track gauge| 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification| 1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Operating speed| 95 km/h (60 mph)

Route map

The Ryōmō Line (両毛線, Ryōmō-sen) is a Japanese railway line connecting Oyama in Tochigi Prefecture with Maebashi in Gunma Prefecture. 84.4 km (52.4 mi) long, the line is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The name refers to the fact that Gunma and Tochigi prefectures were once part of an ancient province called Keno (毛野), which was later split into Kōzuke (Gunma) and Shimotsuke (Tochigi). This line connects both halves of the old province.

## Services[edit]

Most Ryōmō Line services continue beyond Shin-Maebashi and terminate at Takasaki on the Joetsu Line. Local trains run about once in an hour during the day between Oyama and Maebashi and twice or three times as frequently between Maebashi and Takasaki. Some rapid services from Ueno and the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line travel through onto the Ryōmō Line, but they stop at every station.

## Station list[edit]

Line  | Station  | Japanese  | Distance (km)  | Transfers  | Location

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Between
stations  | Total
Ryōmō Line | Oyama | 小山  |  | 0.0  |  Tohoku Shinkansen
JU Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line)
JS Shonan-Shinjuku Line
■ Mito Line | Oyama | Tochigi
Omoigawa | 思川  | 5.4  | 5.4  |
Tochigi | 栃木  | 5.4  | 10.8  |

* TN Tobu Nikko Line
* TN Tobu Utsunomiya Line[* 1]

| Tochigi
Ōhirashita | 大平下  | 4.4  | 15.2  |
Iwafune | 岩舟  | 4.1  | 19.3  |
Sano | 佐野  | 7.3  | 26.6  | TI Tōbu Sano Line | Sano
Tomita | 富田  | 4.5  | 31.1  |  | Ashikaga
Ashikaga Flower Park | あしかがフラワーパーク  | 0.9  | 32.0  |
Ashikaga | 足利  | 6.2  | 38.2  | TI Tobu Isesaki Line (Ashikagashi)
Yamamae | 山前  | 4.5  | 42.7  |
Omata | 小俣  | 4.6  | 47.3  |
Kiryū | 桐生  | 5.6  | 52.9  | ■ Watarase Keikoku Line
■ Jōmō Line (Nishi-Kiryū)  | Kiryū | Gunma
Iwajuku | 岩宿  | 2.3  | 56.9  |  | Midori
Kunisada | 国定  | 6.4  | 63.3  |  | Isesaki
Isesaki | 伊勢崎  | 5.8  | 69.1  | TI Tobu Isesaki Line
Komagata | 駒形  | 5.8  | 74.9  |  | Maebashi
Maebashi-Ōshima | 前橋大島  | 3.2  | 78.1  |
Maebashi | 前橋  | 3.8  | 81.9  | ■ Jōmō Line (Chūō-Maebashi)
Shin-Maebashi | 新前橋  | 2.5  | 84.4  | ■ Joetsu Line (for Minakami)
■ Agatsuma Line[* 2]
Joetsu Line
Ino | 井野  | 3.3  | 87.7  |  | Takasaki
Takasakitonyamachi | 高崎問屋町  | 1.2  | 88.9  |
Takasaki | 高崎  | 2.8  | 91.7  |  Joetsu Shinkansen
Hokuriku Shinkansen
JU Takasaki Line
JS Shonan-Shinjuku Line
■ Shinetsu Main Line
■ Hachiko Line[* 3]
■ Jōshin Dentetsu Jōshin Line

1. ^ The official start of the Tobu Utsunomiya Line is at Shin-Tochigi, but all trains travel through on the Tōbu Nikkō Line to Tochigi.
2. ^ The official start of the Agatsuma Line is at Shibukawa, but all trains travel through on the Joetsu Line to Takasaki.
3. ^ The official start of the Hachiko Line is at Kuragano, but all trains travel through on the Takasaki Line to Takasaki.

## Rolling stock[edit]

### Present[edit]

Takasaki to Oyama

* 211-3000 series 4- and 6-car EMUs (since August 2016)

Takasaki to Maebashi (Takasaki Line through services)

* E231-1000 series
* E233-3000 series (since 1 September 2012)[1]

Ashikaga Ō-Fuji-Matsuri special services

* 185 series (since 2005)
* E257 series (since 2005)
* 485 series (since 2006)

### Former[edit]

* 107 series (until October 2017)
* 115-1000 series 4-car EMUs (until March 2018)
* 185 series (Akagi limited express services until March 2016)
* 651 series (Akagi limited express services until 12 March 2021 and Ashikaga Ō-Fuji-Matsuri special services)
* E653 series (Ashikaga Ō-Fuji-Matsuri special services in 2013 and 2014)

## History[edit]

The Oyama to Kiryu section was opened in 1888 by the Ryomo Railway, and extended to Shin-Maebashi the following year. The company merged with the Nippon Railway in 1897, and that company was nationalised in 1906.

## References[edit]

1. ^ JR東日本 高崎線・両毛線 E233系3000番代営業運転開始 [JR East E233-3000 series enter revenue service on Takasaki and Ryomo Lines]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 41, no. 343\. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. November 2012. p. 78.

## External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ryōmō Line.

* Stations of the Ryōmō Line (JR East) (in Japanese)

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Local|

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