The Ch'ŏngnyŏn P'arwŏn Line is a non-electrified standard-gauge secondary
railway
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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
North P'yŏngan Province,
North Korea
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, running from
Kujang Kujang may refer to:
Places
* Kujang County, North Pyongan province, North Korea
** Kujang (town)
* Kujang, Odisha, India
Other uses
* Kujang (weapon), a blade weapon native to the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia
* , a ''Clurit''-class ...
on the
Manp'o and
P'yŏngdŏk Lines to
Kusŏng on the
P'yŏngbuk Line.
This line serves the
Nyŏngbyŏn Nuclear Scientific Research Centre via the
Pun'gang Line, which joins the mainline at
P'arwŏn.
History
A line from
Tŏkch'ŏn to P'arwŏn had been planned already in the 1940s by the
West Chosen Central Railway
The West Chōsen Central Railway (Japanese: 西鮮中央鉄道, ''Sōsen Chūō Tetsudō''; Korean: 서선중앙철도, ''Seoseon Jung'ang Cheoldo''), was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.
History
The West Chōsen Ce ...
, after receiving permission from the
Railway Bureau
The Japanese Government Railways (JGR) was the national railway system directly operated by the Japanese Ministry of Railways ( ja, 鉄道省, Tetsudō-shō, ) until 1949. It was a predecessor of Japanese National Railways and the later Japan Rai ...
of the
Government-General of Korea in 1940 to extend its line beyond Tŏkch'ŏn.
[朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 4021, 18 June 1940 (in Japanese)] However, by the end of the war, construction had been completed only as far as
Changsangri (today on the
Changsang Line), although work had begun on the line towards Kujang; it was only in 1953 after the end of the
Korean War
, date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...
that the
Tŏkp'al Line to
P'arwŏn (the line's name came from the two termini, Tŏkch'ŏn and P'alwŏn) via Kujang was finally completed.
The line was then extended further, reaching Kusŏng in 1976. Although by then the line ran Kujang–Kusŏng and the Tŏkch'ŏn–Kujang section had been made part of the P'yŏngdŏk Line, it retained the "Tŏkp'al Line" name until then.
Services
Local passenger trains 795/796 operate on this line between
Kujang Ch'ŏngnyŏn and
Kusŏng.
Route
A yellow background in the "Distance" box indicates that section of the line is not electrified.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Parwon Line
Railway lines in North Korea
Standard gauge railways in North Korea