page_title: Meitetsu Inuyama Line
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Meitetsu Inuyama Line / History
caption_attribution_description: Nagoya Railroad EMU type 6000 At Inuyama-Yuen Sta. (Inuyama Bridge)
context_page_description: The Meitetsu Inuyama Line is a 26.8 km Japanese railway line operated by the private railway operator Nagoya Railroad, which connects Biwajima Junction in Kiyosu, Aichi with Shin-Unuma Station in Kakamigahara, Gifu. Together with the Kakamigahara Line, the line forms an alternate route of the Nagoya Main Line between Higashi-Biwajima and Meitetsu Gifu.
context_section_description: The Nagoya Electric Railway (later Meitetsu) opened the Biwajima to Iwakura section, as an interurban electrified at 600 V DC, in 1910. The line was extended to Inuyama in 1912 built with double tracks. In 1922, the Biwajima to Iwakura section was double-tracked, and in 1926, the line was extended as dual track to Shin-Unuma, including a combined rail and road bridge over the Kisogawa.
  In 1948, the voltage was increased to 1,500 V DC, and in 1993 through services commenced on the Nagoya Subway Tsurumai Line. The road utilising the Kisogawa rail bridge was diverted onto its own bridge in 2000, ending the last such combined bridge usage in Japan.
caption: Kisogawa combined rail and road bridge in 1996
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