Japanese Shinkansen line between Tokyo, Osaka halted for 3 hours
Xinhua, January 22, 2015 Adjust font size:
Bullet train operations were suspended for about three hours early Thursday morning on the Japanese Tokaido Shinkansen Line between Tokyo and Osaka due to a warehouse fire in Kyoto prefecture, local media reported.
The fire happened at 4:30 a.m. local time Thursday morning in a warehouse storing construction materials in Nagaokakyo city, Kyoto prefecture, and was put out an hour later.
As the warehouse is close to the railway, the operations of bullet trains between Tokyo and Osaka fell into disorder, with 16 trains suspended, 94 trains running late, and about 62,000 people affected.
Normal operations were resumed until 9:00 a.m. local time, said the railway operator JR Central.
The Tokaido Shinkansen is a Japanese high-speed rail line opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Osaka. It is one of the busiest high-speed rail route in the world, with average ridership of over 400,000 passengers every day. Endi