Musashi-Shiraishi Station

Musashi-Shiraishi Station (武蔵白石駅, Musashi-Shiraishi-eki) is a railway station on the Tsurumi Line in Kawasaki-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).[2]

JI07
Musashi-Shiraishi Station

武蔵白石駅
Musashi-Shiraishi Station, November 2005
LocationShiraishi-chō, Kawasaki, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
（神奈川県川崎市川崎区白石町）
Japan
Operated by JR East
Line(s)JI Tsurumi Line
History
Opened1931
Passengers
FY2008[1]1,601 daily
Location
Musashi-Shiraishi Station
Location within Kanagawa Prefecture
Musashi-Shiraishi Station
Musashi-Shiraishi Station (Japan)

Lines

Musashi-Shiraishi Station is served by the Tsurumi Line, and is 4.1 kilometers from the terminus at Tsurumi Station. The station is located at the junction of the main route of the Tsurumi Line and its branch to Ōkawa, however the platform for the branch line at the station was removed in March 1996 so that only mainline trains now stop at the station.[3]

Station layout
Station platforms, September 2010
Former Ōkawa branch platform, August 1980

Musashi-Shiraishi Station has a two opposed side platforms serving two tracks.

Platforms
1 JI Tsurumi Line for Hama-Kawasaki and Ōgimachi
2 JI Tsurumi Line for Asano, Bentembashi, and Tsurumi

Adjacent stations
« Service »
Tsurumi Line JI07
Anzen JI06 Local Hama-Kawasaki JI08

History

Musashi-Shiraishi Station was opened on March 10, 1926 as a station on the privately held Tsurumi Rinkō Railway (鶴見臨港鉄道, Tsurumi Rinkō Tetsudō) initially for freight operations only. The station was closed on November 15, 1930 and reopened as the Musashi-Shiraishi Stop for passenger services only from July 26, 1931. It was elevated in status to that of a full station on March 17, 1936. The line was nationalized on July 1, 1943 and was absorbed into the Japanese Government Railways network. The station has been unstaffed since March 1, 1971. Upon the privatization of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) on April 1, 1987 the station has been operated by JR East.

The short platform (platforms 3 and 4) for the Ōkawa branch line was used until March 1996, when the branch line started operating three-car trains that were longer than the platform.[3]

References
  • Harris, Ken and Clarke, Jackie. Jane's World Railways 2008-2009. Jane's Information Group (2008). ISBN 0-7106-2861-7
  1. Kawasaki City statistics Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Average number of boarding passengers in 2008.
  2. 各駅情報（武蔵白石駅） [Station Information (Musashi-Shiraishi Station)] (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. "鶴見線大川支線　さよならクモハ１２形" [Tsurumi Line Okawa Branch - Farewell KuMoHa 12 series]. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 422. Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. June 1996. pp. 70–71.

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