The Namhŭng Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the

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in South P'yŏngan Province,

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, running from Maengjungri on the

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to Namhŭng.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), A maintenance facility for the diesel shunting locomotives that move freight cars between Namhŭng Station and the chemical complex was opened just east of the station in 2009-2010.The Namhung Industrial Area: Overview
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History

The line was opened by the Korean State Railway in 1976 to serve the Namhŭng Youth Chemical Complex.Choe, Un-sik, 한국의 전통 사회 운송 기구, , pp. 114-115 The line was electrified sometime between 2006 and 2010.

Services

Though the bulk of the freight traffic on this line is to and from the chemical complex, it also serves the

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located just west of the chemical complex. Within the Namhŭng Youth Chemical Complex itself, the sodium bicarbonate plant, the

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plant, the

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sheeting plant, a tank farm for storage of liquid chemicals, and the polyester spinning factory are all served by rail.North Korea’s Namhung Youth Chemical Complex: Seven Years of Construction Pays Off
/ref> The anthracite gasification plant which was opened in 2013 is also rail-served, receiving

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coal for processing via a dedicated railyard.

Route

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

References

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