Another freight train derailment in Hokkaido early Thursday disrupted commuter runs between Sapporo and Hakodate, Japan Freight Railway Co. said. The driver found that one of his two locomotives had derailed between Toya and Usu stations on the JR Muroran Main Line around 4 a.m. ...
Hundreds of fans gathered Sunday at a railway station on the Rumoi Line in Hokkaido to bid farewell to the final train to run on one section of the line. The line has been in operation for 95 years. The last train, packed with around 300 ...
Hokkaido Railway Co. said Friday it has difficulty maintaining half of its railways by itself. At a news conference at JR Hokkaido's head office in Sapporo, President Osamu Shimada said the company finds it hard to continue operating 13 money-losing sections of 10 lines on ...
A shinkansen made an emergency stop on Friday inside the nearly 54-kilometer undersea tunnel on the newly opened Hokkaido Shinkansen Line, the railway operator said Wednesday. The driver stopped the train because an emergency signal was triggered by a small metal object lying near the ...
It remains to be seen whether the latest extension of the shinkansen network will bring economics benefits to Japan's northernmost island.
The Meteorological Agency warned Hokkaido on Tuesday to brace for its worst blizzard in years, and airlines and railways halted some operations. As an intensive low-pressure system moved eastward near Hokkaido, the agency forecast a maximum instantaneous wind speed of 40 meters per second and ...
More than 300 files of information, including those related to transportation security, may have leaked out after a personal computer at Hokkaido Railway Co. came under cyberattacks, NHK reported on Monday. The company, known as JR Hokkaido, was targeted by cyberattacks when it was preparing ...
A train carrying 120 passengers makes an emergency stop in a tunnel linking Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture after smoke is detected, forcing the evacuation of all onboard.
Hokkaido Railway Co. has admitted to another safety oversight regarding the automatic train stop system on one of its express trains. According to JR Hokkaido, a Hokuto express train running between Sapporo and Hakodate was in operation for more than a month since late November ...
A 23-year-old JR Hokkaido worker was caught using his smartphone while driving a limited express train, the railway company says. The driver was operating a train on the Nemuro Line heading for Sapporo on Monday morning when he posted a private message on Facebook. Another ...
A freighter train derailed early Sunday on the JR Esashi Line in southern Hokkaido, the operator said. No one was injured. JR Hokkaido said the last two cars of the 20-car train came off the rails at around 4:15 a.m. on a section of the ...
Hokkaido police have begun an investigation of JR Hokkaido on suspicion that its workers fabricated track maintenance data after a freight train derailed in the Hakodate line's Onuma Station compound last Sept. 19.
