The Sinheung Railway (

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: 新興鉄道株式会社, ''Shinkō Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha'';

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: 신흥철도주식회사, ''Sinheung Cheoldo Jusikhoesa''), was a privately owned

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company in colonial era

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. It was a subsidiary of the Chōsen Railway (''Chōtetsu''), colonial Korea's largest privately owned railway company, established in 1930 to operate a number of lines opened by Chōtetsu and one of its predecessors, the Chōsen Forestry Railway.朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 930, 10 February 1930 The Sinheung Railway was bought and absorbed by Chōtetsu on 22 April 1938;朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3385, 3 May 1938 Chōtetsu subsequently split the Sinheung Railway's network into four separate lines: the Hamnam Line (Hamheung–Hamnam Sinhung/Sangtong/Jangpung), the

Songheung Line The Songheung Line (松興線, ''Shōkō-sen'') was a narrow gauge railway line of the Chōsen Railway (Chōtetsu) of colonial-era Korea, located in South Hamgyeong Province.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), Ther ...

(Hamnam Sinheung–Bujeonhoban), the

Jangjin Line The Jangjin Line (長津線, ''Chōshin-sen'') was a narrow gauge railway line of the Chōsen Railway of colonial-era Korea, located in South Hamgyeong Province.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), There is a cable ...

(Sangtong–Sasu), and the

Namheung Line The Namheung Line (南興線, ''Nankō-sen'') was a narrow gauge railway line of the Chōsen Railway (''Chōtetsu'') of colonial-era Korea, located in South Hamgyeong Province, serving an industrial area south of the city of Hamheung.Kokubu, ...

(West Hamheung–Seohojin).

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