History
The oldest section of the Shinjuku Line is between Higashi-Murayama Station and Hon-Kawagoe Station. This section was built by the Kawagoe Railway (川越鉄道, Kawagoe Tetsudō?) as a part of its route between Kokubunji and Kawagoe in 1894. At that time the Kawagoe Railway worked as a branch of the Kōbu Railway (present-day Chūō Main Line).
Following some mergers and name changes, Seibu Railway became the operator of the line then called the Kawagoe Line in 1922. In 1927, Seibu Railway built its new Murayama Line between Takadanobaba Station on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo and Higashi-Murayama Station to compete with Musashino Railway (武蔵野鉄道, Musashino Tetsudō?) (present-day Seibu Ikebukuro Line) and the state-owned Chūō Main Line with the route being in the middle of the two.
In 1952, an extension from Takadanobaba to Seibu-Shinjuku Station was completed. At this time the line was renamed the Shinjuku Line, integrating the Murayama Line and the northern section of the Kawagoe Line. The new Seibu-Shinjuku terminal was built as a temporary station because Seibu had a plan to extend the line to Shinjuku Station. However this plan was later scrapped, and now the station has a permanent building with a high-rise hotel.
From the start of the revised timetable on 30 June 2012, the limited-stop Rapid Express (快速急行, kaisoku-kyūkō?) services were abolished.
Station numbering was introduced on all Seibu Railway lines during fiscal 2012, with Seibu Shinjuku Line stations numbered prefixed with the letters "SS".
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