The station is served by the Nagasaki Main Line and is located 67.7 km from the starting point of the line at Tosu.[3] Besides the local services on the line, about two trains a day from the JR Kyushu Limited Express service Kamome between Hakata and Nagasaki also stop at the station.[4]
Station layout
The station consists of a side platform and an island platform serving three tracks. A siding branches off track 1 and another off track 3. The station building is a timber built structure of western design and houses a waiting room and a ticket window. Access to the island platform is by means of a footbridge.[3][2]
Management of the station has been outsourced to the JR Kyushu Tetsudou Eigyou Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of JR Kyushu specialising in station services. It staffs the ticket window which is equipped with a POS machine but does not have a Midori no Madoguchi facility.[5][6]
Japanese Government Railways (JGR) built the station in the 1930s during the development of an alternative route for the Nagasaki Main Line along the coast of the Ariake Sea which was at first known as the Ariake Line. The track was built from Hizen-Yamaguchi to Hizen-Ryūō, opening on 9 March 1930, and then to Hizen-Hama, opening on 30 November 1930. In the next phase of expansion, the track was extended to Tara which opened on 16 April 1934 as the new southern terminus. On 1 December 1934, the entire route was completed and through-traffic achieved from Hizen-Yamaguchi through the station to Nagasaki. The track was then redesignated as part of the Nagasaki Main Line. With the privatization of Japanese National Railways (JNR), the successor of JGR, on 1 April 1987, control of the station passed to JR Kyushu.[7][8]
Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2016, the station was used by an average of 323 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), and it ranked 300th among the busiest stations of JR Kyushu.[9]
^ ab"多良島" [Tara]. hacchi-no-he.net. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
^ abKawashima, Ryōzō (2013). 図説: 日本の鉄道 四国・九州ライン 全線・全駅・全配線・第5巻 長崎 佐賀 エリア [Japan Railways Illustrated. Shikoku and Kyushu. All lines, all stations, all track layouts. Volume 5 Nagasaki Saga area] (in Japanese). Kodansha. pp. 22, 66. ISBN9784062951647.
^"多良" [Tara]. JR Kyushu official station website. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
^"福岡支店内各駅" [Stations within the Fukuoka Branch]. JRTE website. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^"多良駅" [Tara Station]. jr-mars.dyndns.org. Retrieved 15 March 2018. See images of tickets sold.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. I. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. pp. 222–3. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^Ishino, Tetsu; et al., eds. (1998). 停車場変遷大事典 国鉄・JR編 [Station Transition Directory – JNR/JR] (in Japanese). Vol. II. Tokyo: JTB Corporation. p. 715. ISBN4-533-02980-9.
^"駅別乗車人員上位300駅（平成28年度）" [Passengers embarking by station - Top 300 stations (Fiscal 2016)] (PDF). JR Kyushu. 31 July 2017. Archived from the original(PDF) on 1 August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
External links
Media related to Tara Station at Wikimedia Commons
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