Songpyong Line

Sŏngp'yŏng Line
Overview
Native name 성평선(城坪線)
Type Heavy rail, Freight rail
Regional rail
Status Closed
Locale North Hamgyŏng
Termini Kangalli
Sŏngp'yŏng
Stations 2
Operation
Opened 1924
Closed ?
Owner Tomun Railway (1924–1929)
Chosen Government Railway (1929–1934)
South Manchuria Railway (1934–1940)
Chosen Government Railway (1940–1945)
Korean State Railway (since 1945)
Technical
Line length 11.5 km (7.1 mi)
Number of tracks Single track
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map
 Hambuk Line
 Sŏngp'yŏng Line
Tumen River
0.0 Kangalli
Kyudong
Namju-dong
11.5 Sŏngp'yŏngformer mine
Songpyong Line
Chosŏn'gŭl 성평선
Hancha 城坪線
Revised Romanization Seongpyeong-seon
McCune–Reischauer Sŏngp'yŏng-sŏn

The Sŏngp'yŏng Line was a non-electrified 11.5 km (7.1 mi) long railway line of the Korean State Railway in North Korea, connecting Kangalli on the Hambuk Line with Sŏngp'yŏng.[1]

History

The line was originally opened by the privately owned Tomun Railway as a branch of its Hoeryŏng−Tonggwanjin mainline,[2] subsequently becoming part of the Chosen Government Railway after the nationalisation of the Tomun Railway in 1929.[3] The line was dismantled sometime after the mid 1980s, but the exact date of closure is unknown.

Services

Until the 1980s, coal was shipped from mines on this line to the Kim Chaek Iron & Steel Complex at Kimchaek and the Ch'ŏngjin Steel Works in Ch'ŏngjin, with the order of collection from each line arranged in the order of the total weight of the outbound cars.[4]

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 Kangalli 강안리 (江岸里) Tonggwan 동관 (東關) Hambuk Line
Namju-dong 남주동 (南州洞)
11.5 11.5 Sŏngp'yŏng 성평 (城坪)

References

  1. ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p. 93 ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  2. ↑ Japanese Government Railways (1937). 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在 [The List of Stations as of 1 October 1937] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kawaguchi Printing Company. p. 506.
  3. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
  4. ↑ "북한지리정보: 운수지리 함북선". Naver. Retrieved 2017-08-16.

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