Pyongbuk Railway

P'yŏngbuk Railway Co. Ltd.
Overview
Native name 평북철도주식회사 (P'yŏngbuk Ch'ŏldo Chusikhoesa)
平北鐵道株式會社 (Heihoku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha)
Route map
Legend
Kyŏngŭi Line(Sentetsu)
0.0 Chŏngju
Kyŏngŭi Line(Sentetsu)
10.4 Koan
16.5 Pongmyŏng
28.4 Panghyŏn
41.2 P'yŏngbuk Kusŏng
49.0 Paegun
63.9 Taean
70.5 Taegwan
78.2 Ch'angp'yŏng
91.2 Sakchu Onch'ŏn
Onp'ung
100.0 Sakchu
105.9 Sinan
113.7 Pup'ung
4.1 Sup'ung Hoan
Sup'ung Hoan Branch
Sup'ung Branch
2.5 Sup'ung
Sup'ung Dam
120.5 Ch'ŏngsu

Manchukuo - Yalu River - Korea
Shanghekou
South Manchuria Railway

The P'yŏngbuk Railway (Japanese: 平北鐵道株式會社, Heihoku Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha; Korean: 평북철도주식회사, P'yŏngbuk Chŏ'ldo Chusikhoesa), was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.

The P'yŏngbuk Railway opened a railway line from Chŏngju on the Chosen Government Railway's KyŏngsongSinŭiju Kyŏngŭi Line to Ch'ŏngsu on 27 September 1939 as an industrial railway to serve the Sup'ung Hydroelectric Power Plant on the Yalu River.[1] At Ch'ŏngsu a bridge was built across the Yalu River to connect with the South Manchuria Railway at Shanghekou, Manchukuo.

After the partition of Korea the line was within the territory of the DPRK, and was nationalised by the Provisional People’s Committee for North Korea along with all other railways in the Soviet zone of occupation on 10 August 1946, becoming the P'yŏngbuk Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]


References

  1. 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 3813, 3 October 1939
  2. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
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