Under the pressure of an increasing number of disabled cars, JNR managed to secure reserve cars by reducing the number of trains running on the Kyoto-Takatsuki and the Akashi-Nishi-Akashi sections and hastened to repair disabled cars.
ついには、故障車の増加に耐えかねて、京都～高槻間、明石～西明石間で運転本数を削減して予備車を捻出、その間に故障車の修理を急いだ。