Supung Line

	Supung Line
Chosŏn'gŭl	수풍선
Hancha	水豊線
Revised Romanization	Supung-seon
McCune–Reischauer	Sup'ung-sŏn

Sup'ung Line
	The railway bridge at Sup'ung Station; heading towards the Sup'ung Dam.
Overview
Native name	수풍선 (水豊線)
Type	Heavy rail, Regional rail, Freight rail
Status	Operational
Locale	North P'yŏngan
Termini	Pup'ung ; Sup'ung
Stations	2
Operation
Opened	27 September 1939
Owner	P'yŏngbuk Railway (1939–1945); Korean State Railway (since 1945)
Technical
Line length	2.5 km (1.6 mi)
Number of tracks	Single track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	3000 V DC Catenary
Route map
	Legend

Last updated February 25, 2019

The Sup'ung Line is an electrified railway line of the Korean State Railway in North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea, running from Pup'ung on the P'yŏngbuk Line to Sup'ung.^[1]

The Korean State Railway is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and has its headquarters at P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chon Kil-su, who has held the position since 2009.

North Pyongan Province, written before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen) is a western province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏng'an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its capital is Sinŭiju. In 2002, Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region—near the city of Sinuiju—was established as a separately governed Special Administrative Region.

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia, under Gwanggaeto the Great. To the north and northwest, the country is bordered by China and by Russia along the Amnok and Tumen rivers; it is bordered to the south by South Korea, with the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two. Nevertheless, North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands.

History

The Sup'ung Line was opened, together with the main line, by the P'yŏngbuk Railway on 27 September 1939 to assist with the construction of the Sup'ung Dam.^[2]

The P'yŏngbuk Line is an electrified standard-gauge secondary trunk line of the Korean State Railway in North Pyŏngan Province, North Korea, running from Chŏngju on the P'yŏngŭi Line to Ch'ŏngsu; it meets the Ch'ŏngnyŏn P'arwŏn Line at Kusŏng, and at Ch'ŏngsu, via a bridge across the Yalu River, it goes to Shanghekou, China, where it connects to China Railway's Fengshang Railway to Fenghuangcheng.

The Pyeongbuk Railway was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.

The Sup'ung Dam, also referred to as the Shuifeng Dam and previously the Sui-ho Dam, is a gravity dam on the Yalu River between Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County, Liaoning Province in China and Sakju County, North Pyongan Province in North Korea. The dam was constructed by the Japanese between 1937 and 1943 in order to generate electricity and has been repaired and renovated several times throughout the years, mainly due to spillway damage from flooding.

Following the partition of Korea the line was located within the Soviet zone of occupation, and was nationalised along with all the other railways in the zone by the Provisional People’s Committee for North Korea on 10 August 1946,^[1] becoming part of the Korean State Railway. Electrification of the entire line was completed in 1980.^[3]

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991. Nominally a union of multiple national Soviet republics, its government and economy were highly centralized. The country was a one-party state, governed by the Communist Party with Moscow as its capital in its largest republic, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Other major urban centres were Leningrad, Kiev, Minsk, Alma-Ata, and Novosibirsk.

Services

Sup'ung Station, the terminus of the line, is served by six pairs of commuter trains that run along the Ch'ongsu—Sup'ung—P'ungnyŏn route.^[3]

Ch'ŏngsu Station is a railway station of the Korean State Railway in Ch'ŏngsu Workers' District, Sakchu County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is the northern terminus of the P'yŏngbuk Line of the Korean State Railway. The line continues past the station to a factory at Namsal-li.

Route

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

Distance (km)		Station Name		Former Name
Total	S2S	Transcribed	Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja)	Transcribed	Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja)	Connections
0.0	0.0	Pup'ung	부풍 (富豊)			Amrokkang Line, P'yŏngdŏk Line
2.5	2.5	Sup'ung	수풍 (水豊)

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References

1 2 Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō) ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 3813, 3 October 1939
1 2 North Korea Geographic Information: Transportation Geography - P'yŏngbuk Line (in Korean)

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[Hayato-1] 1 2 Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō) ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6

[2] 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 3813, 3 October 1939

[Naver-3] 1 2 North Korea Geographic Information: Transportation Geography - P'yŏngbuk Line (in Korean)