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Kosei Line
Special Rapid Service train (right) and Thunderbird limited express (left) at Hira Station
Overview
Type	Heavy rail
System	Urban Network (Yamashina - Nagahara)
Locale	Kyoto Prefecture and Shiga Prefecture
Termini	Yamashina Ōmi-Shiotsu
Stations	21
Operation
Opened	1974
Owner	JR West
Operator(s)	JR West JR Freight
Technical
Line length	74.1 km (46.0 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC, overhead lines
Operating speed	130 km/h (80 mph)

The Kosei Line (湖西線, Kosei-sen^?) is a commuter rail line in Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto Metropolitan Area, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). The line was completed in 1974 by the former Japanese National Railways (JNR) to provide faster access from the Kansai region to the Hokuriku region. It originates at Yamashina Station in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto and ends at Ōmi-Shiotsu Station in Nagahama, Shiga.

Its name means "the line to the west of the lake," indicating that it skirts Lake Biwa along its western shore. Trains continue from Yamashina to Kyoto Station on the Tōkaidō Main Line for convenient transfer to lines serving the Kansai as well as the Tōkaidō Shinkansen.

In addition to local, Rapid and Special Rapid services, limited express trains such as Raichō, Thunderbird and Nihonkai as well as freight trains are frequently operated on the line. Some of limited express trains stop at Ōtsukyō or Katata and others skip all stations on the line. The section from Nagahara to Ōmi-Shiotsu, originally electrified with 20 kV AC, was re-electrified to 1,500 V DC on September 24, 2006 enabling DC-only EMUs used in Osaka-Kyoto region to operate, and the Special Rapid through train service from JR Kyoto Line (Tokaido Main Line) was extended beyond Ōmi-Shiotsu to Tsuruga on the Hokuriku Main Line.

Stations [edit]

• S: trains stop
• s: Only extra trains stop

Rolling stock [edit]

Current [edit]

Passenger [edit]

Local [edit]

• 113 series
• 117 series
• 207 series
• 221 series
• 321 series
• 521 series

Special Rapid and Local [edit]

• 223-1000/2000 series
• 225-0 series

Limited Express [edit]

• 681 series (Thunderbird services)
• 683 series (Thunderbird services)

Freight [edit]

• EF81
• EF510

Former [edit]

EMU [edit]

• 125 series (until March 2009)
• 201 series
• 419 series (until October 2006)
• 475 series (until October 2006)
• 485 series (Raichō services, until March 2011)

DMU [edit]

• KiHa 20 series (until 1991)
• KiHa 26 series (until 1991)
• KiHa 48 (until 1991)

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