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Rajin has a rail link to the Russian Railways system over the Friendship Bridge across the Tumen River in the North Korea–Russia border. There is transborder passenger service from Pyongyang to Moscow, with a Korean rail car taken across the border (with bogies changed to the Russian gauge), and eventually attached to a Vladivostok-Moscow ...
English: This is a map of the currently in-use railways and rail stations of North Korea, color-coded by gauge. Primary and secondary trunk lines are labelled on the map, as are the nine provinces of North Korea and its ten largest cities.
North Korea has a railway system consisting of an extensive network of standard-gauge lines and a smaller network of 762 mm (30.0 in) narrow-gauge lines; the latter are to be found around the country, but the most important lines are in the northern part of the country. All railways in North Korea are operated by the state-owned Korean State ...
List of railway stations in North Korea. [1] Closed stations are not included. Alphabetical list ... North P'yŏngan: Map'yŏng Line: Hyangha (향하) Chagang:
The important cities of North Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces. Pyongyang , the largest city and capital, is classified as a chikhalsi ( capital city ), while three cities (see the list below) are classified as t'ŭkpyŏlsi (special city).
The Korean State Railway is the only rail operator in North Korea. It has a network of over 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) of standard gauge and 400 kilometres (250 mi) of narrow gauge (762 mm or 30.0 in) lines; as of 2007, over 5,400 kilometres (3,400 mi) of the standard gauge (well over 80%), along with 295.5 kilometres (183.6 mi) of the narrow ...
1.2 Korean State Railway. 2 Road. Toggle Road subsection. 2.1 Pyongyang–Wonsan Tourist Motorway. ... The Chongryu Bridge Geumneung tunnel in Pyongyang, North Korea.
By the end of the 1970s, the goal of eliminating steam power from the primary trunk lines had been achieved, with nearly 87.5% of all railway movements being hauled by electric locomotives by the start of the 1980s, [11] the total length of electrified standard gauge rail lines in North Korea reaching 3,940 km (2,450 mi); [64] additionally ...