The Songheung Line (松興線, ''Shōkō-sen'') was a narrow gauge railway line of the
Chōsen Railway (Chōtetsu) of
colonial-era Korea, located in
South Hamgyeong Province.
[Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ] There was a cable-hauled section between Baekamsan and Hamnam Songheung.
History
On 1 February 1928, the Chōsen Railway extended its
Hamnam Line by opening a section from
Pungsang to
Hamnam Songheung.
[朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 354, 7 March 1928] Two years later, on 1 February 1930 the Hamnam Line was taken over by a newly established subsidiary company, the
Sinheung Railway
The Sinheung Railway ( Japanese: 新興鉄道株式会社, ''Shinkō Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha''; Korean: 신흥철도주식회사, ''Sinheung Cheoldo Jusikhoesa''), was a privately owned railway company in colonial era Korea.
It was a subsid ...
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[朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 930, 10 February 1930] and on 15 January 1932, after the existing Hamnam Songheung Station was renamed Hasonghung Station, the present
Hamnam Songheung Station was opened from Hasongheung,
[朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 1510, 22 January 1932] and on 10 September 1933, the line was extended to
Bujeonhoban.
The Sinheung Railway was absorbed by Chōtetsu on 22 April 1938,
[朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3385, 3 May 1938] and Chōtetsu separated the
Hamnam Sinheung–Bujeonhoban section from the Hamnam Line, naming that portion the Songheung Line.
After the establishment of
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and ...
and the nationalisation of its railways, the Hamnam Line was split up, with the Hamheung - Oro - Sinheung section being merged with the Songheung Line to create the present
Sinheung Line.
Services
In the November 1942 timetable, the last issued prior to the start of the
Pacific War, Chōtetsu operated the following schedule of third-class-only local passenger services:
[Tōa Travel Co. (東亜旅行社), Ministry of Railways Combined Timetable 1 November 1942 (鐵道省編纂時刻表昭和１７年１１月１日)]
Route
References
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Rail transport in North Korea
Rail transport in Korea
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Defunct railway companies of Japan
Defunct railway companies of Korea
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