The Ch'ŏnghwaryŏk Line is an electrified standard-gauge freight-only secondary line of the
Korean State Railway
The Korean State Railway (), commonly called the State Rail () is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea and has its headquarters at P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun Song.
History
1945–195 ...
in
South P'yŏngan Province,
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
, running from
Kubongsan on the
Kubongsan Line
The Kubongsan Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the Korean State Railway in South P'yŏngan Province, North Korea, running from Ch'ŏngch'ŏn'gang on the P'yŏngŭi Line to East Namhŭng.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄 ...
to
Ch'ŏnghwaryŏk.
[Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ]
History
The line was opened by the Korean State Railway in the 1976
통합 검색 결과 : 북창화력발전연합기업소 (전체 82건) - 북한정보포털
/ref> to supply the Ch'ŏngch'ŏn River Thermal Power Plant with coal from the Sŏhae Line.[Choe, Un-sik, 한국의 전통 사회 운송 기구, , pp. 114-115] The name of the line, and of Ch'ŏnghwaryŏk station, is derived from the name of the power plant - Ch'ŏngch'ŏngang Hwaryŏk Paljŏnso (청천강화력발전소).
Route
A yellow background in the "Distance" box indicates that section of the line is not electrified.
References
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Railway lines in North Korea
Standard gauge railways in North Korea