Tasado Railway

Tasado Railway Co. Ltd.
Overview
Native name	다사도철도주식회사 (Tasado Ch'ŏldo Chusikhoesa) 多獅島鐵道株式會社 (Tashitō Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha)
Route map Legend 0.0 Sinŭiju 5.2 South Sinŭiju Kyŏngŭi Line(Sentetsu) 8.2 Ragwŏn 12.0 Ibam 15.3 Yangsi 20.4 Yongju 21.1 Pukchung 23.4 Tangryong 25.9 Ryongamp'o 26.2 Naejung 28.6 Tǒkpong 29.6 Sujŏng 32.5 Sinjǒngri Kyŏngŭi Line(Sentetsu) 33.9 Namsi Kyŏngŭi Line(Sentetsu) 35.9 Tasado 38.5 West Tasado 39.5 Tasado Port

The Tasado Railway (Japanese: 多獅島鐵道株式會社, Tashitō Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha; Korean: 다사도철도주식회사, Tasado Chŏ'ldo Chusikhoesa), was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.

The Tasado Railway opened a 39.5 km (24.5 mi) line from Sinŭiju to Tasado Port via Yangsi on 31 October 1939,^[1] to provide the Oji Paper Company of Sinŭiju a means of shipping its products out via the port at Tasado, as the Yalu River freezes in winter. Then, on 29 October 1940 the Tasado Railway opened a line from Yangsi to Namsi (nowadays called Yŏmju).^[2] The Sinŭiju—Yangsi section of the line was transferred to the Chosen Government Railway on 1 April 1943 as the Yangsi Line.^[3] Yangsi and Namsi stations were given their current names, Ryongch'ŏn and Yŏmju respectively, in July 1945.

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,^[4] with the Ryongch'ŏn—Tasado line becoming the Tasado Line, and the Ryongch'ŏn—Yŏmju section becoming the Yangsi Line; the Yangsi Line was made the mainline of the P'yŏngŭi Line in 1964, with the former mainline between Yŏmju and South Sinŭiju becoming the Paengma Line.^[4]

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