The Gyeongwon Line is a railway line serving northeastern Gyeonggi Province in South Korea. The line is operated by the Korean National Railroad. Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja, or hanmun, sometimes translated as Sino-Korean characters, are what Chinese characters (hanzi) are called in Korean. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Gyeonggi is the most populous province in South Korea. ... The Korean National Railroad, now known as Korail, is the national railroad operator in South Korea. ...
Prior to the division of Korea in 1945, the line's northeastern terminus was at Wŏnsan in modern-day North Korea. The Korean peninsula, first divided along the 38th parallel, later along the demarcation line The modern division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II. The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to jointly administer the newly liberated nation... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Wonsanis a port city and naval base in southeastern North Korea. ...
Major stations along the line include:
Yongsan the line's southern terminus south of downtown Seoul, where there is a junction with the Gyeongbu Line;
Sintanni, the line's northern terminus and the northernmost railhead in South Korea.
Yongsan Station is a major railway station in Seoul, South Korea. ... Seoul (서울, ▶ (help· info)) is the capital of South Korea (the Republic of Korea) and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ... The Gyeongbu Line (Gyeongbuseon) is the most important railway line in South Korea and one of the oldest, connecting Seoul to Suwon, Daejeon, Daegu, and Busan. ... Cheongnyangni Station is the Seoul terminus for passenger trains serving the eastern part of South Korea. ... The Jungang Line is a railway line connecting Seoul to Gyeongju in South Korea. ... The Gyeongchun Line (Gyeongchunseon) is a railway line connecting Seoul to Chuncheon in South Korea. ... Uijeongbu is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. ...
The Gyeongbu Line (Gyeongbuseon) is the most important railway line in Korea and one of the oldest, connecting Seoul to Suwon, Daejeon, Daegu, and Busan.
The Gyeongbu Line is the major route out of Seoul and Yongsan Stations, and in addition to regular departures for Busan, trains travel along the Gyeongbu Line en route to Janghang, Gwangju, Mokpo, Suncheon, Yeosu, Pohang, Ulsan, Haeundae, Masan, and Jinju.
The most frequent passenger service on the line is provided by Seoul Subway Line 1 on the section between Seoul Station, Guro (where roughly half the subway trains leave the Gyeongbu Line to head out to Incheon via the Gyeongin Line), Suwon, and Byeongjeom.
Gyeongwonline has been an important means of land transportation connecting this gun and Seoul, Dongducheon, and Uijeongbu from construction of the line to today.
There is signpost informing southern end of Gyeongwonline with the sentence "The train wants to run" nearby Sintan-ri station and it gives pain of partition of Korean peninsula.
There are seven stations of Gyeongwonline in all running through this gun as of end of 1998.
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