Tongpo Line

	Tongpo Line
Chosŏn'gŭl	동포선
Hancha	東浦線
Revised Romanization	Dongpo-seon
McCune–Reischauer	Tongp'o-sŏn

Tongp'o Line
Overview
Native name	동포선 (東浦線)
Type	Heavy rail, Freight rail; Regional rail
Status	Operational
Locale	North Hamgyŏng
Termini	Chongsŏng ; Tongp'o
Stations	2
Operation
Opened	1 November 1924
Owner	Tomun Railway (1924–1929); Chosen Government Railway (1929–1934); South Manchuria Railway (1934–1945); Korean State Railway (since 1945)
Technical
Line length	15.6 km (9.7 mi)
Number of tracks	Single track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Route map
	Legend

Last updated March 15, 2019

The Tongp'o Line is a non-electrified 15.6 km (9.7 mi) long railway line of the Korean State Railway in North Korea, connecting Chongsŏng on the Hambuk Line with Tongp'o.^[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 Jang Hyuk, who has held the position since 2015.

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.

Chongsŏng Station is a railway station in Chongsŏng-rodongjagu, Onsŏng County, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the 15.6 km-long branchline to Tongp'o.

History

It was originally opened by the Tomun Railway together with the Sangsambong−Chongsŏng section of the West Tomun Line on 1 November 1924.^[2] It was subsequently nationalised by the Chosen Government Railway in 1929, and from 1934 to 1945 it was managed by the South Manchuria Railway.^[3] Finally, after the partition of Korea it became part of the Korean State Railway.^[1]

The Domun Railway Company, was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.

Sambong Station is a railway station in Sambong-rodongjagu, Onsŏng County, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway.

The Chosen Government Railway was a state-owned railway company in Korea under Japanese rule. It was a department of the Railway Bureau of the Government-General of Korea, whose functions were the management and operation of railways in Korea, as well as the supervision of privately owned railway companies.

Services

Coal is shipped from mines on this line to the Kim Chaek Iron & Steel Complex at Kimchaek and the Ch'ŏngjin Steel Works in Ch'ŏngjin, with the order of collection from each line arranged in the order of the total weight of the outbound cars.^[4]

Kimch'aek, formerly Sŏngjin, is a city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. It was an open port in 1899. It has a population of 196,000. The city received its current name in 1951 during the Korean War, in honor of the Korean People's Army (KPA) general, Kim Chaek. It was known as "Shirotsu" during Japanese rule between 1910 and 1945.

Chongjin Municipal City in North Hamgyong, North Korea

Chŏngjin is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province and the country's third largest city. It is sometimes called the City of Iron.

Route

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

Distance (Total; km)	Distance (S2S; km)	Station Name (Transcribed)	Station Name (Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja))	Former Name (Transcribed)	Former Name (Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja))	Connections
0.0	0.0	Chongsŏn	종성 (鍾城)			Hambuk Line
15.6	15.6	Tongp'o	동포 (東浦)

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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
↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
↑ 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線 Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ "북한지리정보: 운수지리 함북선". Naver. Retrieved 2017-08-16.

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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

[Showa669-2] 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)

[kitanatate-3] 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線 Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine .

[Naver-4] "북한지리정보: 운수지리 함북선". Naver. Retrieved 2017-08-16.