STATION GRADE SYSTEM AND ITS OPERATION IN THE PRE-WAR RAILWAY IN JAPAN

Abstract

 The standard design is suitable for making infrastructures in a short period, but it makes them uniform. To avoid making uniform infrastructures, choose some important facilities and give more resources than others. Before WWII, the national railways in Japan had a system that classified stations into some grades. As a result of the investigation, it is found that the stations classified into 5 grades. Stations classified the 1st and 2nd grade were designed individually but there were some restrictions on the budget or the lot size for the 2nd grade stations.