Tumangang station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in Track (rail transport), tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the ...

in Tumangang-rodongjagu, Sŏnbong, Rasŏn Special City,

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, on the Hongŭi Line of the

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.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), In 2008, construction was started from Khasan,

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to Rajin port, including modernisation of communications equipment and the conversion of the standard-gauge track to dual-gauge (standard and Russian gauges), to allow movement of trains from Russia to Rajin without stopping for bogie changes. Construction was completed in October 2012, and an opening ceremony was held on 22 September 2013. There are service facilities for locomotives and rolling stock at Tumangang station.The traffic and geography in North Korea
Hambuk Line
(in Korean)

Services

Freight

Tumangang station is the primary transit point for trade with Russia. The main imports from Russia are timber and crude oil; the main exports are magnesite, steel, fertiliser, non-ferrous metals and non-ferrous metal concentrates, but since the collapse of the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

freight traffic has dropped significantly.

Passenger

The international express train 7/8 that operates between P'yŏngyang and

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runs on this line between Hongŭi and Tumangang before crossing the border into Russia, however this service is not able to be used by non-DPRK citizens due to chronic delays. There is also a long-distance service between Tumangang and Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn station on the

P'yŏngra Line The P'yŏngra Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the Korean State Railway in North Korea, running from P'yŏngyang to Rason, where it connects with the Hambuk Line.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), I ...

. The

Russian Railways Russian Railways (russian: link=no, ОАО «Российские железные дороги» (ОАО «РЖД»), OAO Rossiyskie zheleznye dorogi (OAO RZhD)) is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both manag ...

operate trains 651/652 between Moscow, Ussuriysk and Tumangang.Расписание беспересадочного вагона Москва — Пхеньян
Trains 651/652 are now the longest passenger train journey in the world that can be undertaken by foreign citizens - 9,453 km. Between

and Ussuriysk, the carriages that form trains 651/652 are coupled to the Trans-Siberian Rossiya.

References

{{Hongui Line Railway stations in North Korea Railway stations opened in 2013 Buildings and structures in Rason