Daegu Line
Template:Short description Template:Expand Korean Template:Infobox rail line
Template:Infobox Korean name The Daegu Line (Template:Korean) is a railway line in South Korea. The line connects Gacheon station on the Gyeongbu Line in Daegu to Yeongcheon on the Jungang Line. The line is served by frequent passenger trains between Seoul (via the Gyeongbu Line), Dongdaegu, and Gyeongju, Pohang and Ulsan (via the Jungang and Donghae Nambu Lines).
HistoryEdit
The first section of the Daegu Line was opened in 1917, between Daegu and Hayang.<ref name="relocate"/> The line was extended to the Haksan station in Pohang until 1919 as follows:
| Date | Section | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 November 1917 | Daegu–Hayang | 23.0 km |
| 1 September 1918 | Hayang–Gyeongju | 46.0 km |
| 31 October 1918 | Gyeongju–Pohang | 36.4 km |
| 27 June 1919 | Pohang–Haksan | 2.0 km |
A branch was opened from Gyeongju to Ulsan on October 25, 1921.<ref name="relocate"/>
The sections from Gyeongju to Pohang and Ulsan were integrated into the Donghae Nambu Line on December 16, 1935. On 1 July 1938 the reconstruction of the section Daegu–Yeongcheon was complete with the standard gauge.<ref>朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), 24 June 1938</ref> On 1 December 1938 the section Yeongcheon–Gyeongju became a part of the Gyeonggyeong Nambu Line (the southern part of the Jungang Line), which was established on April 1, 1942. At the same time the present section was renamed the Daegu Line.<ref>朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), 28 November 1938</ref>
UpgradeEdit
The Template:Convert section from Dongdaegu to Cheongcheon was replaced by a new alignment that takes the Daegu Line to meet the Gyeongbu Line at Gacheon, lengthening the Dongdaegu–Cheongcheon line distance to Template:Convert.<ref name="relocate">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Dongdaegu to Cheongcheon rail distance changed to Template:Convert,<ref name="relocate"/> line proper from Gacheon to Yeongcheon is Template:Convert long.<ref name="lineop">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The project was launched in August 1997 with a planned completion in 2000, but economic difficulties and planning changes delayed completion, the line relocation was finally inaugurated on November 3, 2005.<ref name="relocate"/> Part of the project was the replacement of a Template:Convert branch to Daegu Airport from the old alignment with a Template:Convert spur line paralleling the highway west from Cheongcheon to the airport, finished a year later.<ref name="relocate"/>
The Daegu Line was considered for an upgrade to a double-tracked, electrified railway in a straighter, Template:Convert long alignment from 2000.<ref name="KRNA_2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Detailed plans were prepared by 2009, the foreseen budget was 988.042 billion won, and the completion of the project was set for 2017.<ref name="KRNA_2010"/> On September 1, 2010, the South Korean government announced a strategic plan to reduce travel times from Seoul to 95% of the country to under 2 hours by 2020. As part of the plan, the Daegu Line is to be set out for 230 km/h and may see KTX service.<ref name="plans2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 28 December 2021, electrification was completed.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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BibliographyEdit
- Japanese Government Railways (1937), 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在 (List of stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, pp 493–494