JapaneseRailwayHistory-铁路现代化和新干线.docVIP

Japanese Railway History 10Railway Modernization and Shinkansen?Yasuo Wakuda Progress of Electrification and Diesel ConversionIn the late-1950s—some 10 years after World War II—Japans economy had recovered to the pre-war level and started remarkable growth. The share of railways in the domestic transport market was still so large that the economic growth called for increased passenger and freight capacities. Heavy investment was made in the 1960s to hasten modernization of trunk lines.Up to the wars end, the Japanese government railways (JNR after 1949) had relied on steam power, where