Shinano Railway
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Native name
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しなの鉄道 |
|---|---|
| Third sector | |
| Genre | Rail transport |
| Founded | May 1, 1996 |
| Headquarters | Ueda, Nagano, Japan |
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Area served
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Nagano Prefecture |
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Key people
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Takeharu Fujii (President) |
| Services | Passenger railway |
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Number of employees
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251 (As of 1 March 2015[update]) |
| Website | www |
The Shinano Railway Co., Ltd. (しなの鉄道株式会社 Shinano Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese third-sector railway operating company established in 1996 to operate passenger railway services on the section of the JR East Shinetsu Main Line within Nagano Prefecture when it is separated from the JR East network in October 1997, coinciding with the opening of the Nagano Shinkansen (Hokuriku Shinkansen) from Takasaki to Nagano. The company was founded on May 1, 1996, and has its headquarters in Ueda, Nagano.
Shares in the company are owned by Nagano Prefecture, the cities of Nagano, Ueda, Komoro, Chikuma, Saku and Tōmi, the towns of Karuizawa, Miyota, Sakaki, Shinano, and Iizuna and private-sector businesses.
On October 1, 1997, the company took over control of local passenger operations on the 65.1 km section of the JR East Shinetsu Main Line between Karuizawa and Shinonoi. This section is called the Shinano Railway Line.
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