Mandok Line

Mandŏk Line
Overview
Native name 만덕선(満徳線)
Type Heavy rail, Passenger & freight rail
Regional rail
Status Operational
Locale Hŏch'ŏn-gun,
South Hamgyŏng
Termini Hŏch'ŏn
Mandŏk
Stations 3
Operation
Opened 1939
Owner Tanp'ung Railway (1939–1945)
Korean State Railway (since 1945)
Technical
Line length 10.3 km (6.4 mi)
Number of tracks Single track
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification 3000 V DC Overhead line
Route map
0.0 Hŏch'ŏnHŏch'ŏn Line
6.6 Pudong
10.3 Mandŏk
Mandok Line
Chosŏn'gŭl 만덕선
Hancha 満徳線
Revised Romanization Mandeokseon
McCune–Reischauer Mandŏksŏn

The Mandŏk Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the Korean State Railway in Hŏch'ŏn County, South Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea running from Hŏch'ŏn on the Hŏch'ŏn Line to Mandŏk.[1]

History

This line was opened by the privately owned Tanp'ung Railway as a branch of its Tanchon−Honggun mainline opened on 26 August 1939.[2]

Services

A pair of local passenger trains 931/932 are known to operate on this line between Hŏch'ŏn and Mandŏk.[1]

Route

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

Distance
(Total; km)		 Distance
(S2S; km)		 Station Name
(Transcribed)		 Station Name
(Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja))		 Former Name
(Transcribed)		 Former Name
(Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja))		 Connections
0.0 0.0 Hŏch'ŏn 허천 (虚川) Kosŏng 고성 (古城) Hŏch'ŏn Line
6.6 6.6 Pudong 부동 (釜洞)
10.3 3.7 Mandŏk 만덕 (満徳)

References

  1. 1 2 Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  2. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3788, 4 September 1939

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