By AYATERU HOSOZAWA/ Staff Writer
July 23, 2024 at 11:41 JST
Passengers pass through ticket gates at Tokyo Station on July 23 as service resumed on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line. (Koichi Ueda)
Service resumed on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line on July 23 after a full-day suspension between Nagoya and Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture disrupted the business and travel plans of about 250,000 passengers.
Trains are running in accordance with normal timetables from the day’s first run.
Operator Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) added two Nozomi super-express services both ways, which left Tokyo and Shin-Osaka terminal stations between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m.
A total of 328 runs were suspended on July 22 after two maintenance vehicles collided and derailed in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, early in the morning, the company said.
Trains on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, which links Tokyo and Tsuruga in Fukui Prefecture, became packed as travelers sought an alternative route between the Tokyo metropolitan area and locations west of Nagoya, such as Osaka.
Airlines also flew additional flights to help meet the emergency demand.
JR Tokai suspects that both the manual and automatic brakes of a maintenance vehicle transporting ballast failed to engage on a descending slope.
The company is conducting emergency inspections of about 350 similar maintenance vehicles.
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