History
Shoro Station opened on 1901-07-20 as a station on the Hokkaidō Kansetsu Tetsudō, the same day Kushiro Station first opened to the east. It passed to the government on 1905-04-01. Centralised traffic control over the Shōei Signal Box–Shin-Fuji section took effect on 1971-08-01, and on 1971-10-02 freight and parcel handling ended and the station became unstaffed under a simple consignment arrangement. Crossover sidings were removed in March 1987, and JR Hokkaido took over at privatisation on 1987-04-01. The consigned operation was discontinued and the stop made fully unstaffed on 1992-04-01.
History summarized from Japanese & English Wikipedia · last reviewed 2026-06-09.
Where the English and Japanese sources differ, this account follows the Japanese source.
Notes
Two serious derailments occurred on the station premises in the mid-1970s — a head-on freight collision on 1973-11-10, and on 1976-04-13 the Limited Express Ōzora No. 3 derailed with seven of its ten cars off the track and the rear two overturned.