Tomun Railway Company

The Tomun Railway Company (Japanese: 図們鉄道株式会社, Tomon Tetsudo Kabushiki Kaisha; Korean: 도문철도주식회사, Tomun Ch'ldojusikhoesa), was a privately owned railway company in Japanese-occupied Korea.

The Tomun Railway's line ran from Hoeryŏng to Sambong, and was opened in three stages: the Hoeryŏng-Sangsambong (now called Sambong) section (40.4 km) was completed on 5 January 1920, the Sangsambong-Chongsŏn section (9.1 km) on 1 December 1922, and the Chongsŏn-Tonggwanjin section (8.2 km) on 1 November 1924.[1]

This line was nationalised on 1 April 1929, becoming the West Tomun Line of the Chosen Government Railway.[1] Subsequently merged with the Chosen Government Railway's East Tomun Line, the management of the entire line was transferred to the South Manchuria Railway; at that time, the former Tomun Railway line was added to the existing (Wŏnsan-Ch'ŏngjin) Hamgyŏng Line.[2]

Following the establishment of North Korea, all railways were nationalised, creating the Korean State Railway. After the end of the Korean War, the restructuring of the North Korean railway system, including the rearrangement of rail lines, led to the Hoeryŏng-Sambong line becoming part of the Korean State Railway's Hambuk Line running from Ch'ŏngjin to Rajin via Namyang.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 조선총독부관보 昭和 제669호, 1929년 3월 28일자, 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
  2. ↑ 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線
  3. ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
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