Gyeongwon Line
Overview
Native name	경원선 (京元線)
Status	Operational
Owner	Korea Rail Network Authority
Locale	Seoul Gyeonggi Gangwon
Termini	Yongsan Baengmagoji
Stations	37
Service
Type	Heavy rail, Passenger/Freight Regional rail,Commuter rail
Operator(s)	Korail
History
Opened	Stages between 1911 and 1914
Technical
Line length	94.4 km (58.7 mi)
Number of tracks	Double track (Yongsan–Dongducheon) Single track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)standard gauge
Electrification	25 kV/60 HzACCatenary (Yongsan–Yeoncheon)
Route map Legend Gyeongbu Line(toSeoul) ← (toGajwa) 0.0 Yongsan Gyeongbu Line(toDaejeon) Yongsan Triple Line 1.9 Ichon 3.6 Seobinggo 5.5 Hannam 7.1 Oksu Sucheolri 8.9 Eungbong ← 10.3 Wangsimni Cheonggyecheon Seongsu Line 12.7 Cheongnyangni 14.1 Hoegi ←Jungang Line(toMangu) 14.9 Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies ←Mangu Line (toMangu) 15.7 Sinimun Imun Rail Yard formerGyeongchun Line(toSeongdong) ui stream 17.1 Seokgye 18.2 Kwangwoon Univ. formerGyeongchun Line(toToegyewon) 19.3 Wolgye 20.7 Nokcheon 21.7 Chang-dong Banghak connecting line (closed) 23.4 Banghak 24.7 Dobong 25.9 Dobongsan ↑Seoul/Gyeonggi ProvinceUijeongbu↓ E 100 28.2 Mangwolsa 29.6 Hoeryong 31.2 Uijeongbu 32.4 Ganeung Gyooe Line(toDaegok) 33.7 Nogyang ↑Uijeongbu/Yangju↓ 35.3 Yangju 37.5 Majeon Signal Box 40.9 Deokgye 43.5 Deokjeong ↑Yangju/Dongducheon↓ 49.1 Jihaeng 50.1 Dongducheon Jungang 51.5 Bosan Dongducheon stream 53.1 Dongducheon 55.6 Soyosan 59.7 Cheongsan Hantan River Hantangang 65.2 Jeongok 73.8 Yeoncheon ↑Soyosan/Cheorwon↓ 77.4 Sinmang-ri 84.4 Daegwang-ri 88.8 Sintan-ri ↑Yeoncheon/Gangwon ProvinceCheorwon↓ 94.4 Baengmagoji ←Kumgangsan Electric Railway 98.1 Cheorwon 103.1 Woljeong-ri ↑ROK/DPRK↓ 113.1 Gagok toWonsan Seoul Subway Line 1 Gyeongui–Jungang Line Gyeongchun Line

TheGyeongwon Line is a railway line serving northeasternGyeonggi Province inSouth Korea. The line is operated byKorail. The name of the line came fromGyeongseong (Seoul) andWonsan, the original terminus of the line, in what is nowNorth Korea.

One of the first construction projects undertaken by the Railway Bureau of theGovernment General of Korea was for an east−west trunk line to connectKeijō to the important port ofWonsan. TheChosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) opened the line in several stages between 1911 and 1914.^[1] The first section of mainline to be electrified by Sentetsu was also along the Gyeongwon Line, with thePokkye−Gosan section being energised on 27 March 1944,^[2] as part of a plan made jointly with theSouth Manchuria Railway for an electrified railway all the way fromBusan toXinjing, capital ofManchukuo.^[3]

After thepartition of Korea following the end of thePacific War in 1945, the Gyeongwon Line was split along the38th parallel between the stations ofHantangang andChoseongni.^[4] The railways in both South and North were nationalised, and the newly-establishedKorean National Railroad took over operation of the truncated Gyeongwon Line, from Seoul to Choseongni; in the North, theKorean State Railway merged its section of the Gyeongwon Line, Choseong-ri−Wonsan, with the Wonsan−Gowon section of the formerHamgyeong Line to create theGangwon Line.^[4]

The line was severely damaged during theKorean War. After the ceasefire and the subsequent establishment of theMilitary Demarcation Line, the division of the line changed, with the South gaining control of the line further northwards as far asWoljeongni. However, the line was rebuilt only as far asSintalli, resulting in an operation line from Yongsan and Sintalli with a length of 88.8 km (55.2 mi).^[1]

Following the 1961 coup, theSupreme Council for National Reconstruction started South Korea'sfirst five-year plan, which included a construction program to complete the railway network, to foster economic growth.^[5] As part of the program, in the outskirts of Seoul, a 4.9 km (3.0 mi) long avoiding line was built fromKwangwoon University toMangu on theJungang Line, called the Mangu Line, which opened on December 30, 1963.^[5]

The section of the Gyeongwon Line in the Seoul metropolitan area was among the first to be electrified with the 25 kV/60 HzACcatenary system in South Korea when to allow forthrough train services withSeoul Subway Line 1. Further sections were electrified and urban services toLine 1 was extended in the 1980s and then in the 2000s:^[6]

Altogether 55.6 km (34.5 mi) of the line was electrified, and 53.1 km (33.0 mi) was double-tracked.^[1]

On September 1, 2010, the South Korean government announced a strategic plan to reduce travel times from Seoul to 95% of the country to under 2 hours by 2020. As part of the plan, the Gyeongwon Line is to be further upgraded until Uijeongbu for 230 km/h and may seeKTX service.^[7]

In 2012 restoration of the line was completed betweenSintan-ri andBaengmagoji.^[8]

On December 16, 2023, a single-line railway between Soyosan and Yeoncheon opened on the Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1.

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

• Korail
• Korean State Railway
• Transportation in South Korea

• Japanese Government Railways (1937), 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在(The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, pp 495–496

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