Sakuma Rail Park

Sakuma Rail Park
佐久間レールパーク

View from the station platform in August 2008
Location within Japan
Established 21 April 1991
Dissolved 1 November 2009
Location Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan
Coordinates 35°05′08″N 137°48′09″E / 35.085511°N 137.802622°E / 35.085511; 137.802622
Type Railway museum
Public transit access Chūbu-Tenryū Station

The Sakuma Rail Park (佐久間レールパーク Sakuma Rēru Pāku) was an open-air railway museum located next to Chūbu-Tenryū Station on the Iida Line in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan. It was operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), and was opened on 21 April 1991.[1] The museum closed on 1 November 2009 in preparation for the move to a new SCMaglev and Railway Park in Nagoya in 2011.[1]

Exhibits

As of June 2009, the following railway vehicles were on display.[1][2][3]

Shinkansen

Locomotives

Electric railcars

Diesel railcars

Passenger carriages

Other vehicles

References

  1. 1 2 3 "佐久間レールパーク展示車両とイベント情報 (Sakuma Rail Park Exhibits and Event Information)". Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. 38 (304): 38–42. August 2009.
  2. "「リニア・鉄道館」ファーストガイド" ["SCMaglev and Railway Park" First Guide]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 324. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. April 2011. pp. 20–33.
  3. "リニア・鉄道館 会館" [SCMaglev and Railway Park opens]. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 51 no. 601. Japan: Kōyūsha Co., Ltd. May 2011. pp. 64–73.
  4. 0系新幹線電車前頭部を保存します [0 Series Shinkansen Front Section Preserved] (PDF) (Press release) (in Japanese). Tokyu Car Corporation. 23 August 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2010. Retrieved 18 September 2012.
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