羽生オフレールステーション, Railway cargo transfer facility in Hanyu, Japan
Hanyu Off-Rail Station is a Japan Freight Railway (JR Freight) container collection and distribution depot at 697-1 Fujishita-shimogumi, Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, with no rail line on the site. Containers are trucked to and from the Koshigaya and Utsunomiya freight terminals, roughly 50 km away in each case. It handles 12-ft and large 20-ft containers gathered from northern Saitama and southern Gunma.
JR Freight opened the Hanyu Off-Rail Station on October 10, 2000, to give an area without a nearby freight station its own container collection and distribution point. The site at Fujii Shimogumi 697-1 in Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, forwards containers to base freight terminals by truck. Traffic grew from 14,720 tons sent and 22,690 tons received in fiscal 2002 to 22,514 tons sent and 58,245 tons received in fiscal 2005.
The name follows JR Freight's off-rail station naming, abbreviated Hanyu ORS. The site collects and distributes 12-ft and large 20-ft containers for northern Saitama and southern Gunma, with five daily truck runs to Koshigaya Freight Terminal and two to Utsunomiya Freight Terminal.
The site sits at 697-1 Fujiishigekumi, Hanyu, in a mix of factories, fields and housing east of the city centre. No JR line runs within walking distance: Tobu Hanyu Station is about 3.2 km away, and the nearest JR passenger station, Kurihashi, roughly 13 km. Truck runs cover about 50 km to the Koshigaya and Utsunomiya freight terminals.
By 2005, the station handled 22,514 tons of outbound and 58,245 tons of inbound cargo, marking substantial growth in regional freight operations.
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