The Unsan Line is a former non-electrified narrow gauge 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,

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, running from Puksinhyŏl-li,

Hyangsan County Hyangsan County is a ''kun'', or county, in North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. It was established, following the division of Korea, from portions of Nyŏngbyŏn county. The area of Myohyangsan mountain, which stands on the county's border, ...

on the

Manp'o Line The Manp'o Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the North Korean State Railway running from Sunch'ŏn on the P'yŏngra Line to Manp'o on the Pukpu Line. The line continues on from Manp'o to Ji'an, China.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍� ...

to Samsal-ri,

Unsan County Unsan County is a ''kun'', or county, in eastern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. Within the province, it borders Hyangsan in the east, Kujang and Nyŏngbyŏn in the south, and Tongch'ang and T'aech'ŏn in the west. In addition, it is ...

.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō),

History

The Unsan Line was originally opened by the Korean State Railway in the 1970s;Choe, Un-sik, 한국의 전통 사회 운송 기구, it was closed some time in the 1990s. Trains on the line were pulled by

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-built 400 series

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s.Huxtable, Nils, and Ziel, Ron, ''Steam Beneath the Red Star'' p 194, Amereon House, 1995, By December 2003, there was little that remained of the line, with only the bridge abutments leaving Puksinhyon station being visible and no buildings or locomotives seen.

Routes

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

narrow gauge A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and . Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structu ...

; an orange background indicates that section is non-electrified narrow gauge.

References

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