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Japan Freight Railway Company (日本貨物鉄道株式会社, Nihon Kamotsu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?), or JR Freight (JR貨物, Jeiāru Kamotsu?), is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group). It provides transportation of cargo nationwide. Its headquarters are in Shibuya, Tokyo near Shinjuku Station.[1]
The Japan Railways Group was founded on April 1, 1987, when Japanese National Railways (JNR) was privatized, and then divided into six regional companies and Japan Freight Railway Company. Although the passenger operation of JNR was split into six companies, fares and regulations are standard for all companies and every region of Japan except Okinawa is covered by the railway network spanning approximately 19,800 kilometres (12,300 mi).
Formerly part of JNR, the freight operation was not divided and became a single separate company when JNR was privatized and split. Although it has only about fifty kilometers of track of its own, it also operates on track owned by the JR passenger railways and other companies. The company uses the initials JRF as an abbreviated name for identification.
While major part of the operation of JR Freight is on the tracks owned and maintained by other JR companies, JR Freight owns the railway lines (as Category-1 railway business) as follows:
JR Freight owns a variety of rolling stock, including
Osaka, Sakurajima Line, Tōkaidō Main Line, Hanwa Line, JR Tōzai Line
Osaka Loop Line, Tokaido Main Line, Osaka Municipal Subway, JR Kobe Line, JR Kyoto Line
Kyushu Shinkansen, Nippō Main Line, Nagasaki Main Line, Hisatsu Line, Kyushu Railway Company
Biwako Line, JR Kobe Line, Kosei Line, West Japan Railway Company, Tokaido Main Line
Hachikō Line, Nambu Line, Itsukaichi Line, Chūō-Sōbu Line, Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line