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Chaokai Railway

Chaokai Railway
Overview
Native name 朝开铁路 (Cháokāi Tiělù)
Type Heavy rail,
Regional rail
Status Operational
Locale Jilin Province
Termini Chaoyangchuan
Kaishantun
Stations 6
Operation
Opened March 1934
Owner China Railway
Operator(s) China Railway
Technical
Line length 58.4 km (36.3 mi)
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
Route map
Changtu Railway
0.0 Chaoyangchuan 朝阳川
Changtu Railway
9.7 Sanfengdong 三峰洞
18.6 Longjing 龙井
28.7 Dongshengyong 东盛涌
41.4 Badaohe 八道河
58.4 Kaishantun 开山屯
Tumen River (↑ChinaDPRK
Hambuk Line(Korean State Railway)
60.6 Sambong

The Chaokai Railway (朝开铁路, Cháokāi Tiělù) is a 58.4 km (36.3 mi) freight-only railway line of the China Railway in Jilin Province, China, connecting Chaoyangchuan on the Changtu Railway with Kaishantun. The line formerly crossed the Tumen River to reach Sambong in modern-day North Korea, but the bridge has since had the tracks removed, and is in use as a road crossing.

In 1917, the Chosen Government Railway's (Sentetsu) Hamgyeong Line reached Hoeryeong. Soon afterwards the Domun Railway began construction of its mainline from Hoeryeong to Donggwanjin, reaching Sambong (then called Sangsambong) in 1920, Jongseon in 1922 and finally Donggwanjin in 1924. The narrow-gauge Tiantu Railway (天圖鐵道, Chinese: Tiāntú Tiědào; Japanese: Tento Tetsudō) was opened in 1923, and its bridge across the Tumen River between Sangsambong and Kaishantun was opened on 30 September 1927. In 1929 the Domun Railway was nationalised and absorbed by Sentetsu, and on 1 August 1933, Sentetsu's new line from the port at Unggi to Hoeryoeng was completed. In the same year, the Manchukuo National Railway ("MNR") completed its Jingtu Line from Xinjing (now Changchun), the capital of Manchukuo, to Tumen.

In October 1933, the South Manchuria Railway (Mantetsu) took over management of Sentetsu's entire line from Ch'ŏngjin to Unggi, and at that time, the Hoeryŏng–Sangsambong section was added to the existing (Wŏnsan–Ch'ŏngjin) Hamgyŏng Line, the Sambong–Namyang section was renamed the North Chosen Western Line (Puksŏn-sŏbusŏn, 북선서부선), and the Namyang–Unggi section was renamed North Chosen East Line (Puksŏn-tongbusŏn, 북선동부선). Connecting the Jingtu Line with the North Chosen East Line would create a short, direct route from Japan to Xinjing and Harbin, and so National Railway bought the Tiantu Railway in 1933.


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