Gyeonginseon
Gyeonginseon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Route number : | 301 ( KR ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 27.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : |
(continuous) 25 kV / 60 Hz ~ |
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Dual track : |
( Four tracks ) Guro – Dongincheon (two tracks ) Dongincheon – Incheon |
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The railway line from Seoul to Incheon is called Gyeonginseon (Korean 경인선, Seon for "line"). It was the first railway line to be built in Korea .
History until 1945
Construction phase
The history of this railway line began with the award of a concession on March 29, 1896 by the Korean King Gojong to the American businessman James R. Morse, who lived in Yokohama. The concession comprised a rail line in standard gauge from Chemulpo (today's Incheon) to Seoul. Construction of the line began about a year after the concession was granted .
Japanese showed a keen interest in this railway line. On December 1, 1897, a Japanese bank made funds available for the construction of the line and was given a lien. Even before the railway line was completed, the Seoul-Chemulpo Railway Co. Ltd. on December 31, 1899 to a Japanese consortium.
During the construction phase of the railway line from Seoul to Busan , the line was taken over on February 25, 1903 by the Japanese Seoul-Busan Railway Company. This railway company was acquired by the Japanese government as early as 1906. Thus, the line belonged to the Japanese state railway network until the end of World War II .
route
After about 2 years of construction, the 32 km long single-track section from Incheon to the Noryangjin station on the bank of the Hangang was opened on September 18, 1899. The remaining 10 km to the capital Seoul were completed by July 1900, the slope being crossed by a 600 m long bridge. The route ended in Seoul at Seodaemun station (large west gate) or at the station near Namdaemun (large south gate), today's Seoul Station.
After the completion of the railway line from Seoul to Busan in 1904, the section from Seoul to the branch to Yeongdeungpo station belonged to this main line. The Gyeonginseon has started at this junction since then.
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In 1901 there were six train connections each from Seoul to Incheon with a journey time of around 105 minutes. The train with a steam locomotive, two passenger cars and a baggage car stopped at about eight intermediate stations. After repair work between 1906 and 1908, the travel time could be reduced to 90 minutes. In 1914, the route was served by nine train connections every two hours.
History from 1945
After the military coup in 1961 , the expansion of the railway line was included in the first five-year plan. Starting from Yeongdeungpo Station, two more tracks were laid to Dongincheon Station in Incheon, which opened in 1965.
The railway line, which is now part of Seoul Subway Line 1 , was one of the first lines in South Korea to be electrified with 25 kV / 60 Hz AC traction current .
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- Hermann Lautensach : Korea. A country study based on my own travels and literature . KF Koehler Verlag, Leipzig 1945.
- Preyer-Elberfeld, Dr. in Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen, pp. 402-418, pp. 720-743: The railways in Korea . Published by Julius Springer, 1914.
- Andrei Lankov: The Dawn of Modern Korea . Publisher EunHaeng NaMu, Seoul 2007 (English).
- Gertrud Claussen (Ed.): Foreign home Korea . Simon & Magiera Verlag, Munich 1983.
- Angus Hamilton: Korea. The land of dawn . Published by Otto Spamer, Leipzig 1904.
- Korean Tourism Office: Guide to Korea . 2007/2008.
Notes / individual evidence
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^ 1. Preyer-Elberfeld, Dr. The railways in Korea give December 18, 1899.
2. In the English Wiki under Gyeongin Line there is an opening date on September 18, 1899.
3. Andrei Lankov: The Dawn of Modern Korea states September 19, 1899. - ^ Preyer-Elberfeld, Dr. The railways in Korea specify Seodaemun station as the final stop in Seoul.
- ^ Angus Hamilton Korea. The Land of Dawn specifies Namdaemun Station as the final stop in Seoul.
- ↑ Information from Gertrud Claussen (Ed.): Fremde Heimat Korea .
- ↑ Information from Angus Hamilton Korea. The land of dawn .