The Ryong'am Line is an electrified freight-only

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line of the

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Kujang County Kujang County is a ''kun'', or county, in southeastern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. It was created in 1952 from part of Nyŏngbyŏn county, as part of a nationwide reorganization of local government. It borders Nyŏngbyŏn on the west ...

, North P'yŏngan Province,

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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 ...

at the junction of the Ch'ŏngnyŏn P'arwŏn, Manp'o, and P'yŏngdŏk Lines, to Ryong'am.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō)

History

Originally named Yongdŭng Line, this line was opened by the

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on 1 April 1934. Tongryonggul Station, from Kujang, was closed on 15 June 1944.朝鮮総督府官報告示 (Bulletin of the Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 885, 10 June 1944 Given its current name some time after 1950, the line was electrified by 1980.

Route

A yellow background in the "Distance" box indicates that section of the line is not electrified.

References

Japanese Government Railways 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 ...

(1937), 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在(The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, p 498 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryongam Line Railway lines in North Korea Standard gauge railways in North Korea