Geumgangsan Line

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For the railway of North Korea, see Kumgangsan Chongnyon Line.

Operation
Opening	1924
Closed	1950
Technical
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8¹⁄₂ in) standard gauge

Geumgangsan Station on the Geumgangsan Electric Railway

The Geumgangsan Line (Hangul: 금강산선; hanja: 金剛山線; RR: Geumgangsan Seon; MR: Kŭmgangsan Sŏn) is an abandoned railway which operated between Cheorwon Station (Gyeongwon Line) and Naegumgang Station (the inland part of Mount Kumgang). Built in 1924 by the modernizing Japanese administration of Korea, the line was known as the Kongosan Electric Railway (Japanese: 金剛山電気鉄道, Hepburn: Kongōsan denki tetsudō) and operated between on a 116.6 km electrified route at 1500 V DC. The private railway was initially closed in 1950 due to the Korean War. Before the Korean war, the whole line belonged to the territory of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), but because of territorial changes during the way, the western part of the line fell within the territory of the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

References

金剛山電気鉄道について (in Japanese)

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