P'yŏngŭi line

P'yŏngŭi line
Route length:	approx. 224 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3,000 V  =
Dual track :	Pyongyang - Kalli Ŏpa - Sukch'ŏn Sinuiju South - Sinuiju Ch'ŏngnyŏn
Legend P'yŏngbu line 0.0 Pyongyang Central Station. Pyongyang Metro Former Gyeongui Line Pot'onggang P'yŏngnam line 4.7 # Pyongyang West (1929–?), Pot'onggang Pyongyang West ? 11.1 # Sŏp'o Ryongsŏng line 19.0 Kalli (since 1934) P'yŏngna line , Sijŏng line Pot'onggang Pot'onggang 25.2 Sunan 33.5 Sŏgam (since 1923) ↑ Pyongyang / Py'ŏngwon ↓ 41.1 Grandpa ↑ P'yŏngwon / Sukch'ŏn ↓ 51.9 Sukch'ŏn ↑ Sukch'ŏn / Mundŏk ↓ Nisŏ 62.2 Mundŏk Sŏhae line ↑ Mundŏk / Anju ↓ 70.5 Taegyo (since 1938) 75.7 Sinanju Ch'ŏngnyŏn Kaech'ŏn line ↑ Anju Ch'ŏngch'ŏn'gang ↓ Pakch'ŏn Ch'ŏngch'ŏn'gang Namhŭng line 81.7 Maengjung-ri (since 1914) Pakch'on line ↑ Pakch'ŏn Tearyŏnggang ↓ Unjŏn 89.1 Unjŏn 102.1 Unam ↑ Unjŏn / Ch'ŏngju ↓ 110.6 Coŭp 123.4 Chŏngju Ch'ŏngnyŏn P'yŏngbuk line 128.1 Hadan (since 1938) ↑ Chŏngju / Kwaksan ↓ 136.0 Kwaksan ↑ Kwaksan / Sŏnch'ŏn ↓ 147.6 Roha 156.9 Snch'ŏn ↑ Sŏnch'ŏn / Tongnim ↓ 167.0 Ch'ŏnggang 177.8 Tongnim Ch'ŏlsan line ↑ Tongnim / Yŏmju ↓ 191.2 Yŏmju Paengma line 195.5 Sujeong (until 1944) 198.9 Naejung 201.7 Dangryeong (until 1944) ↑ Yŏmju / Ryongch'ŏn ↓ 204.7 Ryongju Tasado line 209.8 Ryongch'on 213.1 Ibam ↑ Ryongch'ŏn / Sinuiju ↓ 216.9 Ragwon Paengma line 219.9 Sinŭiju South (since 1939) Tŏkhyŏn line 225.1 Sinŭiju (since 1911) Kangan line ↑ DPRK Yalu , Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge ↓ People's Republic of China 227.7 Dandong Central Station Shendan line

The P'yŏngŭi Line (Korean 평의선) is a railway line in North Korea that connects Pyongyang Central Station with Sinŭiju Station . It is one of the most important railway lines in North Korea and is connected to the Shendan Line with the Friendship Bridge on the Yalu (Amrokgang). International trains run on this route from Pyongyang to Beijing or Moscow . Kim Jong-il liked to ride her on his Royal Train whenever he visited China or Russia. Before 1945 it was part of the Gyeongui Line , Seoul - Sinuiju Railway .

history

Before 1945

On April 3, 1906, the Gyeongui Line was fully opened. Sinuiju Station, the last station, moved to the present location on November 1, 1911 and was connected to Andong ( Dandong ). International trains ran from Busan to Fengtian ( Shenyang ) or Beijing via this route in the 1930s and 1940s .

The railway line Namsi (Yŏmju) -Sinuiju belonged to the private railway and was operated by the Tasado-Tetsudou Aktiengesellschaft. The construction was finished in 1940:

route	opening	length	comment
Sinuiju - Yangsi (Ryongch'ŏn) - Tasado Harbor	October 31, 1939	39.5 km	The Ryongch'ŏn - Tasado Port railway is currently the Tasado Line .
Yangsi - Namsi (Yŏmju)	October 29, 1940	18.5 km

From April 1, 1943, it became the Yangsi Line, a state railway . On October 16, 1943, the route changed to Sinuiju South – Namsi, because the South Station became a common station with the Gyeongui Line.

After 1945

After the establishment of the Korean State Railways , the Gyeonui Line in North Korea was divided into the P'yŏngui and P'yŏngbu – lines. So far the whole route has been electrified. Before the end of World War II , the Gyeongui Line was double-tracked, but it was rebuilt as a single-track line due to destruction during the Korean War . The old Yangsi line united in the main railway line Pyongyang-Sinŭiju; thus the previous route Namsi (Yŏmju) –Sinuiju South was separated from one another and called the Paengma Line . In addition, the new line in Pyongyang was expanded, so the entire length of the line was about 12 km shorter than in 1945. On April 22, 2004, the serious railway accident occurred in Ryongch'ŏn station.

literature

• Hayato Kokubu, 将軍 様 の 鉄 道 北 朝鮮 鉄 道 事情 (The General's Railroad - The Railway Situation in North Korea), 2007, Shinchosha, Tokyo, ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6 (Japanese)
• Ministry of Railways (Japan) , 鉄 道 停車場 一 覧 昭和 12 年 10 月 1 日 現在 (The station list - as of October 1, 1937), 1937, Tokyo, pp. 484–485 (Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 朝鮮 総 督府 官 報 明治 号 外, November 24, 1911 (Japanese)
2. ↑ 朝鮮 総 督府 官 報 昭和 第 4837 号, March 19, 1943 (Japanese)
3. ↑ 朝鮮 総 督府 官 報 昭和 第 5011 号, October 14, 1943 (Japanese)
4. ↑ 百年 の 鉄 道 旅行 - The map of Pyongyang (Japanese)