Hochon Line

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title: "Hochon Line" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["railway-lines-in-north-korea", "standard-gauge-railways-in-north-korea"] description: "Secondary line of the Korean State Railway" topic_path: "general/railway-lines-in-north-korea" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hochon_Line" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Secondary line of the Korean State Railway ::

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Field	Value
name	Hŏch'ŏn Line
type	Heavy rail, Regional rail
status	Operational
locale	South Hamgyŏng
start	Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn
end	Honggun
stations	12
open	26 Aug. 1939
owner	Tanp'ung Railway (1939–1945)
Korean State Railway (since 1945)
linelength_km	80.3
tracks	Single track
gauge
electrification	3000 V DC Catenary
(Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn – Hŏch'ŏn)
map	[[Image:DPRK-Tanpung Line.png
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The Hŏch'ŏn Line is a partially electrified standard-gauge secondary line of the Korean State Railway running from Tanch'ŏn on the P'yŏngra Line to Honggun.

History

The privately owned Tanp'ung Railway was formed to build a railway from Tanch'ŏn on the Hamgyŏng Line of the Chosen Government Railway to P'ungsan, the county seat of P'ungsan County; it was from the first characters of the names of the endpoints that the railway, and the mainline, got its name. The initial section of the mainline, 80.3 km from Tanch'ŏn to Honggun, was opened on 26 August 1939. A branchline, the Mandŏk Line, from Kosŏng (now called Hŏch'ŏn) to Mandŏk was also opened, but the planned continuation from Honggun to P'ungsan was not completed before the fall of Japan at the end of the Pacific War.

Following the partition of Korea, the entirety of the Tanp'ung Railway's network was located in the Soviet zone of occupation. The Provisional People’s Committee for North Korea nationalised all railways in the northern half of the country on 10 August 1946, and following the establishment of North Korea, the Korean State Railway was created. Damage sustained by the line during the Korean War was repaired and the line was eventually electrified, but the extension to P'ungsan (renamed Kimhyŏnggwŏn in 1990) was never built.

Services

Two pairs of passenger trains are known to run on this line:

• Local trains 551/556, operating from Kokku to Tongdae, run on this line on the segment between Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn and Tongdae;
• Local trains 925/926 operate on this line between Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn and Honggun.

Route

A yellow background in the "Distance" box indicates that section of the line is not electrified.

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Distance (km)	Station Name	Former Name	Total	S2S	Transcribed	Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja)	Transcribed	Chosŏn'gŭl (Hanja)	Connections
0.0	0.0	Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn	단천청년 (端川靑年)	Tanch'ŏn	단천 (端川)	P'yŏngra Line
7.0	7.0	Tongdae	동대 (東坮)
10.1	3.1	Changdŏk	장덕			Closed.
21.1	14.1	Haunsŭng	하운승 (下雲承)
32.6	11.5	Sangnong	상농 (上農)
39.3	6.7	Chungch'on	중촌 (中村)
43.5	4.2	Nongch'on	농촌 (農村)
49.7	6.2	Ch'udong	추동 (楸洞)
54.7	5.0	Hŏch'ŏn	허천 (虚川)	Kosŏng	고성 (古城)	Mandŏk Line
60.9	6.2	Suŭi	수의 (守義)
67.1	6.2	Changp'a	장파 (長坡)
71.3	4.2	Pochi'ri	보치리 (浦淄里)			Flag stop.
78.9	7.6	Hahonggun	하홍군 (下洪君)
80.3	1.4	Honggun	홍군 (洪君)
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References

References

1. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), {{ISBN. 978-4-10-303731-6
2. 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3788, 4 September 1939 (in Japanese)
3. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p. 131, {{ISBN. 978-4-10-303731-6

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