Keihan 8000-series limited express (New color)
Keihan 3000-series express (January 2009)
Keihan 8000-series (November 2005, advertising "Yoshitsune")
Keihan 8000-series K-limited express (August 8, 2007, passing Yawatashi Station)
The Keihan Main Line (京阪本線, Keihan-honsen?) is a railway line of Keihan Electric Railway. The line is between Sanjō Station in Kyoto and Yodoyabashi Station in Osaka. The name of the line is not "the Main Line", but "the Keihan Main Line". There are through services to the Ōtō Line and the Nakanoshima Line. In operation, trains from Kyoto to Osaka are treated as "down" trains, and from Osaka to Kyoto as "up" trains.
Statistics
- Gauge: 1435 mm
- Distance: 49.3 km
- Maximum speed:110 km/h
- Electrification: 1500 V DC
- Double track
- Double track: Yodoyabashi - Temmabashi, Neyagawa Signal Box - Sanjo
- 4 tracks: Temmabashi - Neyagawa Signal Box
Train service
- Rapid Limited Express (快速特急, Kaisoku Tokkyū?) (RLE) - "up" trains only
- Trains are operated from Yodoyabashi to Demachiyanagi in the evening on weekdays.
- Limited Express (特急, Tokkyū?) (LE)
- Trains are operated between Yodoyabashi and Demachiyanagi, and between Yodoyabashi and Hirakatashi in both directions. Extra trains are operated from Yodo to Yodoyabashi on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse as one of the ways to take passengers from the racecourse to Osaka.
- Commuter Rapid Express (通勤快急, Tsūkin Kaikyū?) (CRE) - "down" trains only
- Trains are operated from Demachiyanagi or Kisaichi (Orihime) to Nakanoshima in the morning on weekdays and pass Moriguchishi.
- Rapid Express (快速急行, Kaisoku Kyūkō?) (RE)
- Trains are operated between Nakanoshima and Demachiyanagi in both directions, and stop at Yodo from the morning until the evening on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse.
- Rapid Express "Hikoboshi" trains are operated from Nakanoshima to Kisaichi at night on weekdays.
- Midnight Express (深夜急行, Shinya Kyūkō?) (ME) - "up" trains only
- A train departs from Yodoyabashi for Kuzuha at 0:20 a.m. and passes Moriguchishi and Hirakata-kōen.
- Express (急行, Kyūkō?) (Ex)
- Trains are operated in the early morning and midnight every day. Trains are also operated between Yodo and Demachiyanagi. There are also 4 trains from Yodoyabashi to Kuzuha in the evening on weekdays. Extra trains are operated from Yodo to Nakanoshima on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse as one of the ways to take passengers from the racecourse to Osaka.
- Commuter Sub Express (通勤準急, Tsūkin Junkyū?) (CSbE) - "down" trains only
- Trains are operated from Demachiyanagi, Kuzuha, Hirakatashi to Yodoyabashi or Nakanoshima in the morning and pass Moriguchishi.
- Sub Express (準急, Junkyū?) (SbE)
- Sometimes operated to Nakanoshima in the morning on weekdays.
- Semi-Express (区間急行, Kukan Kyūkō?) (SmE)
- Trains are operated between Nakanoshima and Kuzuha at longest. Mainly arrive at and depart from Nakanoshima every day, sometimes at Yodoyabashi in the rush hour on weekdays.
- Local (普通, Futsū?)
- Trains stop at all stations. Trains run on the Nakanoshima Line every morning and every night.
Stations
- S: Trains stop.
- s: limited stop
- W: Westbound (down) trains stop.
- E: Eastbound (up) trains stop.
- |,↑ (down trains), ↓ (up trains): Trains pass.
- ↑ (down trains), ↓ (up trains): Only one direction.
- ∥: Not running
- (M): Stations using music composed by Minoru Mukaiya (向谷 実?, a musician and a keyboardist) in the announcement of the departures of trains.
- For train abbreviations, see above.
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