Dai-Tetsu at a glance
- Company Name
- Oigawa Railway Co., Ltd.
- Head Office
- 2-1112-2 Kanaya-Azuma, Shimada, Shizuoka, Japan 〒428-8503
- Founded/Capital
- March 1925 /1 billion (b) Yen
- Contacts
- CEO Hajime Suzuki
- (HQ) 0547-45-4111
- (Tourist info) 0547-45-4112
- HP
- http://www.oigawa-railway.co.jp/
Railways
- Main Line
- Kanaya( Shimada, Shizuoka) ～Senzu ( Kawane-Honcho, Haibara-gun, Shizuoka) Length of line / 39.5 km
Number of stations / 19
- Ikawa Line
- ( aka Southern Alps Abt Line )
Senzu ( Kawane-Honcho, Haibara-gun, Shizuoka) ～Ikawa ( Aoi-ku, Shizuoka ) Length of line / 25.5 km
Number of stations / 14
History
- 10 March 1925
- Company founded
- 1 Dec 1931
- Line between Kanaya and Senzu opened
- 1 Dec 1949
- Line between Kanaya and Senzu electrified
- *Steam Locomotives service suspended
- 01 Aug 1959
- Ikawa Line started operation
- November 1970
- Small-sized Steam Locomotive started operation for tourists
(Senzu～Kawane Ryogoku) - 09 July 1976
- Steam Locomotives service restarted on Main Line
- 02 Oct 1990
- Abt System Railway (Abt Ichishiro～Nagashima Dam/4.8km) opened
- 12 July 2014
- Thomas the Tank Engine ran for the first time in Asia
Group Companies
Dai-tetsu Advance Co., Ltd