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Revisiting the Suin Line: Television Chronicles of a Bygone Railway

Ivo Spanjersberg — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:17:03 +0000

The Suin Line (???, ???) was a 52 km narrow-gauge railway connecting Suwon and Incheon in South Korea. Opened on August 5, 1937, by the Ch?sen Gyeongdong Railway, it primarily transported salt from the Sorae area. In 1942, the Ch?sen Railway acquired the line, and following Korea’s liberation in 1945, it was nationalized under the […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: The line within Suwon city

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 14:55:53 +0000

The shortest stretch of the SuIn line was inside Suwon city. This ran from the Suwon railway station to the south, after which it would run up a ramp to cross both a main street and the main (standard gauge) railway line. The only remaining part of this part of the line, the part on […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Gojan Station (– Gongdan/Choji Station – Ansan Station) – Oido Station

Ivo Spanjersberg — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:28:12 +0000

The original Suwon to Inchon line (??? ????) ran all the way from Inchon harbour to Suwon (??) station, but by the end of the existence of the line this was no longer the case. But like other parts of the line which were still there long after the railway had been closed the part […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Using topographical maps to discover strange things

Ivo Spanjersberg — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:29:20 +0000

After a visit to the Korean topographical services in Suwon I ended up with a lot of maps (both 1:25.000 and 1:50.000) of the whole length of the Suwon to Inchon narrow gauge railway. The office had created 3 map sets for me: 1975, 1987 and 1996, or effectively the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Besides […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Suwon to Ansan (Part 2: Omokcheon to Ansan Outskirts)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:59:52 +0000

The line from Suwon to Omokcheon is mainly through build-up area, but after Omokcheon the country really opens up. The dominating feature here is the KTX viaduct built to allow the high speed railway run without interruption from Seoul to Busan. This area is now relatively busy, there are now quite a few people living […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: Suwon to Ansan (Part 1: Suwon to Omokcheon)

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 02:38:21 +0000

A walk on the former narrow gauge line (“???”) from Suwon (??) to Ansan (??) (in parts). This line was last used on the last day of 1995, but most of the track can still be seen in the country side. However, part of the line is now used to build the new subway line from Suwon […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: walking from the (future) Sari Station to Gojan Station

Ivo Spanjersberg — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:59:35 +0000

A major part of the narrow gauge line from Suwon to Inchon ran through Ansan and surrounding area. This area was until 25 years ago country side: none of the buildings in these pictures existed at the time! Even by the end of the existence of the line, in 1995, most of this area was […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: The old bridge at Soraepogu Station

Ivo Spanjersberg — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:15:56 +0000

Near the present day Soraepogu Station (????) on the current Suin (commuter) line from Oido to Songdo a long bridge of the former narrow gauge Suin line can still be found. This bridge is simply named “Sorae Railway Bridge” (????) and as such can be found on the online Naver, Daum and Google maps. The […]

The Suwon – Inchon narrow gauge line: the shortest stretch

Ivo Spanjersberg — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:18:29 +0000

The shortest individual stretch on the SuIn line which can still be found is the short part of the line within Suwon city between the main railway line and the Deogyeongdaero (????). This part of the line was the connection between the line running through Suwon to the station and the country side. The bridge over […]

Narrow gauge in Korea: the Inchon – Suwon – Yeoju line

Ivo Spanjersberg — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:46:02 +0000

While reading an excellent book about the situation in Korea between 1945 and 1950 (“The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning” by Allan Millett”) I noticed on one of the maps that there were at that time in Korea several narrow gauge railway lines. On the Ongjin peninsula, to the west of Haeju, there […]