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Article: 499-Km Seoul-Shinuiju Railroad Is Grand Artery.
- Article from:
- Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
- Article date:
- August 2, 2000
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The Kyongui railway is a transportation artery covering 499 kilometers between Seoul and Shinuiju, a city on the borderline with China, in the west of the Korean peninsula.
The railway opened on March 25, 1906, in 733 days of construction work by the Japanese colonial government under its policy to invade Manchuria and to exploit the northwestern part of the peninsula. The line had 13 stations as of 1984.
Trains transported passengers until shortly before the outbreak of the Korean War (1950-53).
Japan expanded the narrow-gauge rail track of the Anbong Line in China to the standard one in November, 1911, despite strong opposition by China, to ...