Seoul tram
There was a tram in Seoul from 1897 to 1968.
history
The history of the tram began in Hanseong (the name of Seoul at the time) in 1897 with the award of a concession by the Korean King Gojong to the American businessmen Henry Collbran and Harry Bostwick. The American-Korean Electric Co. was commissioned to provide electric street lighting in addition to the electric tram and to plan a waterworks .
In May 1899, the first line with a gauge of 1067 mm ( Cape gauge ) was opened. Just a few days later, after an accident, operations were stopped because the Japanese drivers left the country because of the subsequent attacks by the population on the drivers. The company was only able to reopen a few months later. American drivers were used as drivers this time .
In 1909 the tram at which was Nikkan Gas & Electric Co. sold.
After the Second World War , the tram service was operated by the Kyǒngsǒng Electric Company. On November 29, 1968, the electric tram in Seoul was shut down.
Resources
In the beginning, 9 American-made tram cars were used, with a special car reserved for King Gojong. A car (length approx. 8.7 m) could transport 40 passengers in two classes and had a closed compartment for 1st class in the middle. The speed of the cars was about 5 km / h in the first years of operation.
During the time when Korea was part of the Japanese Empire (1910 to 1945/48), the vehicles came from Japan. One of these cars, more precisely the tram 381, which went into operation in Keijō in 1930 and was only taken out of service when the tram was closed, has been on display in front of the Seoul History Museum since 2007.
After the Korean War , used American trams were introduced from around 1952, including a. 20 cars from Nashville, Tennessee , 20 cars from Atlanta and 15 cars from Los Angeles .
| year | Number of cars |
Number of passengers per day |
|---|---|---|
| 1899 | 9 | |
| 1910 | 37 | 9,810 |
| 1935 | 154 | 150,000 |
| 1950 | 111 | |
| 1964 | 223 | approx. 350,000 |
Route network
In 1914 the operating length was approx. 26 km. The maximum network size was reached in 1941. Approx. In 1960 the operating length was around 50 km.
The following table shows the route network as it was in 1945. The routes of today 's Seoul subway partly follow the course of the former tram. Therefore, the names in the table are marked accordingly (street names (S), station of the subway with line details (Ux), subway line (Lx)).
| serial no. | Start of the route | Route | End of the route | Route length |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Final stop at Hyoja-dong / Gyeongbokgung Palace |
- Hyojaro (S) - Sajingno (S) (L-3) - Sejongno (S) - Taepyeongno (S) (L-1) Namdaemunno (S) (L-1) |
Seoul Station | ||
| 2 | End of the line at Sagan-dong / Gyeongbokgung Palace |
- Samcheongdong-gil (S) - Sajingno (S) (L-3) - Sejongno (S) |
see serial no. 1 | ||
| 3 | End station Mapo-dong (former ferry terminal to the island of Yeouido) |
- short road in Mapo-dong (L-5) - own route to before Ahyeon-dong (l-5) - Maporo (S) (crossing of the railway line to P'yŏngyang - Seodaemun (U-5) - Jongno (S) (L-1) |
Heuginjimun Dongdaemun (Gate) |
The tram depot was located near Dongdaemun |
|
| 4th | Sungin-dong terminus | - Jibonggil (S) (L-6) - Wangsanro (S) (L-1) | see serial no. 3 Heuginjimun Dongdaemun Gate |
||
| 5 | from Cheongnyangni (U-1) | - Wangsanro (S) (L-1) | see serial no. 3 Heuginjimun Dongdaemun Gate |
Start of the route unclear | |
| 6th | from direction Wangsimni (U-2) | - Dongdaemun Stadium (U-2) - Euljiro (S) (L-2) Namdaemunno (S) |
Namdaemunno (S) (L-1) | Start of the route unclear | |
| 7th | Heuginjimun Dongdaemun (Gate) |
- Heunginmunno (S) (L4) | see serial no. 6 Euljiro (S) (L-2) |
||
| 8th | Dongguk University (U-3) | - Road north - to Dongdaemun Stadium (U-2) |
see serial no. 6 Euljiro (S) (L-2) |
||
| 9 | Myeongjeongjeon terminus | - Changgyeonggungro (S) (crossing with serial no.3 ) - Baeogae-gil (S) (L-5) (crossing with serial no.6 ) - Baeogae-gil (S) |
Final stop at the Toegyero / Baeogae-gil junction | ||
| 10 | No. 3 Jongno / Ujeonggungno intersection |
- Ujeonggungno (S) - Sajingno (S) (L-3) | No. 2 Sajingno / Samcheongdong-gil intersection |
||
| 11 | No. 3 Jongno / Namdaemunno junction |
- Namdaemunno (S) | No. 6 crossing Euljiro / Namdaemunno |
||
| 12 | Final stop Muakjae (U-3) | - Uijuro (S) (L-3) - Dongnimmun (Gate) - Uijuro (S) |
Seoul Station | ||
| 13 | from Yeongdeungpo-dong | (Crossing the railway line to Incheon ) (Noryangjin Station) (Han-gang Bridge) - Sinyongsan (U-4) continue following the route of the L-4 |
Seoul Station | Start of the route unclear. Note: Two sidings in the Samgakji area (U-4) |
|
| 14th | 1. Branch in the Sinyongsan area | - Yongsan Station | 2. Branch in the Sinyongsan area |
Connection of Yongsan station to the railway |
|
| 15th | Sinchang-dong terminus (former power station) |
(Junction of the railway in the Hyochang Park area (U-6)) |
No. 13 in the Namyeong area (U-1) |
Web links
- http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html (English)
swell
- Andrei Lankov: The Dawn of Modern Korea . Verlag EunHaeng NaMu, Seoul 2007 (English)
- Preyer-Elberfeld: The railways in Korea . In: Archiv für Eisenbahnwesen , pp. 402–418, pp. 720–743, published by Julius Springer, 1914
- Gertrud Claussen (Ed.): Foreign home Korea . Simon & Magiera Verlag, Munich 1983
Remarks
-
↑ 1. Andrei Lankov: The Dawn of Modern Korea indicates 17 May 1899th
2. On the website http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html May 1, 1899 is given as the opening date.
3. In the English wiki under Transport in South Korea there is an opening date in December 1898. -
↑ 1. Information from Andrei Lankov: The Dawn of Modern Korea for the early 1950s
2. On the website http://www.tramz.com/tva/ko.html a length of 74 km is given for 1964 - ↑ The network of routes could not be taken from the known sources.
- ^ Taken from the historical map of Seoul, US Army Map Service, 1946
