Korea National Railway (KR) said on Nov. 28 that KR will next month embark on a project to double-track the 71.3 km-long Andong-Yeongcheon section, part of the Jungang Line, linking Dodam and Yeongcheon, whose double-tracked line will be opened to traffic in 2024.
The Dodam-Yeongcheon double-tracked line, measuring some 145.1 km, will cost 4,355.4 billion won.
The 73.9 km-long Dodam-Andong section and the 71.3 km-long Andong-Yeoncheon portion had been planned as a double-track and single-track, respectively.
But the planning of the latter changed to a double-track according to outcomes of a review of the suitability of the project, made last December.
Work on the trackbed of the Andong-Yeongcheon section is in the final stage. KR will next month launch work on the double-tracking of the portion, such as track, power, signal and communications, which will cost 280.4 billion won.
A map of the route of the Andong-Yeongcheon section, part of the Jungang Line, linking Dodam and Yeongcheon whose double-tracked one will be opened to traffic in 2024.
The whole Dodam-Yeongcheon section is scheduled to be opened to traffic as a double-tracked line in 2024.
When the project is completed, passengers traveling from Jaecheon to Yeongcheon will see their traveling time reduced to 54 minutes on a KTX-Eum train from two hours and 23 minutes on a Mugunghwa train.
It will raise the railway traffic frequency of the Andong-Yeongcheon section from 63 occasions to 189.
KR Chairman & CEO Kim Han-young said, “If the double-tracking of the Andong-Yeongcheon section will raise its transportation capacity, the conventional transportation system focusing on the Gyeongbu (Seoul-Busan) Line will be dualized into the Gyeongbu and Jungang axes, thus improving railway sharing rate.”
KR Launches Verification and Testing of Electrification Facilities on Gyeongjeon Line
Korea National Railway (KR) launched verification and testing of electrification facilities on Gyeongjeon Line on Nov. 29.
The verification and testing of electrification facilities is a process of comprehensively testing the safety of railway facilities by test-operating trial trans at stages of speed prior to the opening of newly built and renovated railway lines.
The project of electrifying the Jinju-Gwangyang line costs 167.6 billion won, and it involves the installation of facilities for electrifying the Jinju-Gwangyang, a 55.086 km-long non-electrified section.
Trains will be test-operated as if they run to normal from next March following the end of the verification and testing of electrification facilities’ The section will be fully opened to traffic from next late April.
KR Chairman Kim said, “If the electrified Jinju-Gwangyang line is opened to traffic, it will complete an integrated electrified transportation system of the Jeongjeon Line, thus contribution to boosting the tourism industry of the South Coast Share and regional economy.”
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