Donghae Bukbu Line

Donghae Bukbu Line
Donghae Bukbu Line
Chosŏn'gŭl 동해북부선
Hancha 東海北部線
McCune–Reischauer Tonghae Pukpusǒn
Revised Romanization Donghae Bukbuseon

The Donghae Bukbu Line is a former railway line that connected the present-day city of Anbyon in Kangwon Province, North Korea, with Yangyang, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It has not carried trains since the division of Korea.[citation needed] The line originally connected to the Gyeongwon Line running from Gyeongseong (present-day Seoul) to Wonsan. It began running in 1929 between Anbyon and Hupgok, and was extended to Yangyang in 1937. Plans had called for it to be extended south to Pohang, where it would have connected with the Donghae Nambu Line. However, this extension was not completed before the fall of the Japanese regime in 1945, and since then the tracks have been idle.

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Reconstruction

Cross-border section

With increasing talk of peaceful Korean reunification beginning in the 1990s, there have been various efforts to reopen the Donghae Bukbu Line, together with the Gyeongui Line in the west.[1] An opened Donghae Bukbu Line would provide ready land access to the Kumgangsan resort area, which is open to South Korean tourists. After the completion of reconstruction on the 11.1 km cross-border section between Jejil in South Korea and Gamho in North Korea, the initial test run was set for May 25, 2006, but North Korean military authorities cancelled the plans a day ahead of the scheduled event.[1] On the South Korean side, Korail opened Jejil Station in 2006 and has maintained some rolling stock for a trial run.

At a meeting held in Pyongyang, North Korea, on April 22, 2007, North and South Korea agreed to re-start the project. On May 17, 2007, the first train to cross the border between North and South Korea in over 50 years entered South Korea from the North.[1] More than one million civilian visitors crossed the DMZ until the route was closed following the shooting dead of a 53-year-old South Korean tourist in July 2008. [2] After a joint investigation was rebuffed by the North, the Republic of Korean government suspended tours to the resort. Since then the resort, and the Donghae Bukbu Line, have effectively been closed by the North.[3][4]

East coast railway

During the efforts to re-open the cross-border section, the South Korean government has taken up the idea of a railway all along the east coast from Pohang to the North Korean border, with a primary aim to serve freight traffic that could eventually access the Transsiberian Railway.[1][5] As part of the project, plans foresaw to connect the end of the Yeongdong Line in Gangneung with Jejil by 110.2 km long, single-track, non-electrified line for 150 km/h,[6] effectively re-building the Donghae Bukbu Line on a new alignment.

Three years later, the project re-surfaced as a domestic project. 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. The section from Gangneung to Sokcho forms a part of the plan as a line for 230 km/h, and may see KTX service.[7]

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North Korean section

According to a 2010 map,[8] the section from Anbyon to Kosong still exists as the Kumgangsan Line.

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