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Hongui Line

Hongŭi Line
Overview
Native name 홍의선(洪儀線)
Type Heavy rail, Passenger & freight rail
Regional rail
Status Operational
Locale North Hamgyŏng
Termini Hongŭi
Tumangang
Stations 2
Operation
Opened 1952
Owner Korean State Railway
Operator(s) Korean State Railway
Depot(s) Tumangang
Technical
Line length 9.5 km (5.9 mi)
Number of tracks Double track
Track gauge Dual-gauge
1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in) standard gauge
1,520 mm (4 ft 11 2732 in) Russian gauge
Electrification 3000 V DC Catenary
Route map

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Hambuk Line
0.0 Hongŭi
Hambuk Line
1.0 Chŏkchi
9.5 TumangangPassenger & domestic freight yard
TumangangInternational freight yard
DPRK (Sŏnbong-gun, Rasŏn-t'ŭkpyŏlsi)
Tumen River, Korean-Russian Friendship Bridge
Russia (Primorsky Krai)
Khasan
Far Eastern Railway
Hongui Line
Chosŏn'gŭl 홍의선
Hancha
Revised Romanization Honguiseon
McCune–Reischauer Hongŭisŏn

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The Hongŭi Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the North Korean State Railway running from Hongŭi on the Hambuk Line to Tumangang, which is the border station between North Korea and Russia. From Tumangang the line continues across the border to Khasan, Russia. The line from Tumangang to Rajin is double-tracked, including the entirety of the Hongŭi Line; during the recent renovation a 32 km section of dual Standard/Russian gauge was installed between Tumangang and Rajin stations. The entirety of the North Korean section of the line is located in Sŏnbong county of Rasŏn Special City.

There are service facilities for locomotives and rolling stock at Tumangang Station.

The line was built in the late 1940s, coinciding with the opening of a line on the Soviet Far Eastern Railway from Baranovsky to Khasan. The station at Khasan was opened on 28 September 1951, and in 1952 a wooden railway bridge was built across the Tumen River to Tumangang in North Korea. The Korean-Russian Friendship Bridge across the Tumen River was commissioned on 9 August 1959, replacing the temporary wooden bridge, which had grown to be insufficient for the traffic crossing the river.


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