Korean State Railway
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The Korean State Railway is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly called the State Rail. Its headquarters are in P'yŏngyang. The current
Ceremony commemorating the completion of the electrification of the Yangdŏk–Sinch'ang section of the P'yŏngwŏn Line in 1948.
A Japanese-built Purŏp'a (부러파) class locomotive in the DPRK during the Korean War.
The ruins of steam locomotive Matei 10, destroyed during the Korean War, at Changdan in 1976.
The Japanese-made electric locomotives inherited from Sentetsu played a key early role in reviving and implementing electrification plans.
Pyongbu Line
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The P'yŏngbu Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the Korean State Railway running from P'yŏngyang to Kaesŏng in North Korea and further south across the DMZ to Seoul in South Korea; th
Korean State Railway
…ran between Seoul and Sinŭiju via P'yŏngyang; this line is now split between the P'yŏngŭi Line in the north running from Sinŭiju to P'yŏngyang and the P'yŏngbu Line from P'yŏngyang via Kaesŏng to the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and Korail's Kyŏngŭi Line, which runs from the DMZ via Torasan to Seoul. Work in the South…
View of Sonha Station near the inter-Korean border
P'yŏngbu Line tracks at Dorasan station in the DMZ
View of the railway yard of P'anmun station at the Kaesŏng industrial complex