The Ch'ŏnsŏng T'an'gwang Line, or Ch'ŏnsŏng Colliery Line is an electrified standard-gauge freight-only secondary line of the

Korean State Railway The Korean State Railway is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea (), commonly called the State Rail () and has its headquarters at Pyongyang, P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun-song. History 19 ...

in South P'yŏngan Province,

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, running from Sinch'ang on the P'yŏngra Line to Ch'ŏnsŏng.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō),

History

The line was originally opened by the

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in 1936. After the

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, it was located entirely within the north, and it was part of the first section of line electrified by the Korean State Railway in 1946, between Yangdŏk on the P'yŏngra Line to Ch'ŏnsŏng via Sinch'ang. This electrification was destroyed during the

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, but in 1958 the Ch'ŏnsŏng–Sinch'ang– Kowŏn section was re-electrified.

Route

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

References

Railway lines in North Korea Standard-gauge railways in North Korea {{NorthKorea-rail-transport-stub