Editing Jeolla Line (section)

==Services==

The Jeolla Line is served by intercity [[ITX-Saemaeul]] trains and cross-country [[Mugunghwa-ho]] trains. As of October 2010, the travel time on the [[Saemaeul-ho]] from [[Yongsan station]] in Seoul is a minimum 3 hours 28 minutes to [[Jeonju Station|Jeonju]], 4 hours 33 minutes to [[Suncheon station|Suncheon]] and 5 hours 15 minutes to [[Yeosu Station|Yeosu]], with 2 hours 30 minutes taken for the Iksan&mdash;Jeosu travel along the Jeolla Line itself {{clarify|date=April 2015}}. [[Mugunghwa-ho]] trains that also start in [[Yongsan station|Yongsan]] cover the line from [[Iksan station|Iksan]] to Yeosu in between a minimum of 2 hours 30 minutes and a maximum of 4 hours, depending on the number of stops.<ref name="booking">{{cite web |url=http://www.korail.com/en/rv/pr21100/w_pr21110.jsp |title=Booking |publisher=[[Korail]] |access-date=2010-10-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713164814/http://www.korail.com/en/rv/pr21100/w_pr21110.jsp |archive-date=2011-07-13 }} </ref>

===Jeolla KTX===<!-- [[Korea Train Express#Services]] and [[Gyeongbu High Speed Railway#Other services]] links here-->

Yeosu hosted the [[Expo 2012]], and Korail timed the introduction of [[Korea Train Express]] services on the line ahead of the event.<ref name="rgi-korailplans"/> Original plans foresaw the start of Jeolla KTX services in April 2011, reducing the Seoul–Yeosu travel time to 2 hours 55 minutes, using [[KTX-II]] (KTX-Sancheon) high-speed trains.<ref name="KTX-2011">{{cite news|url=http://issue.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/05/12/2010051201015.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708150010/http://issue.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/05/12/2010051201015.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-08 |script-title=ko:숙박ㆍ교통ㆍ민자 사업 어디까지 왔나 어디를 가도 '여수는 지금 공사중' 2조원 투입해 2년간 단계별 건립 도심연결 도로망ㆍ교통혼잡은 숙제 |language=ko |date=2010-05-12 |newspaper=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |access-date=2010-10-19 }}</ref>  In February 2011, when the necessary electrification works were 96% complete, the start of services was postponed to September 2011, and the Yongsan–Yeosu travel time was planned to be 3 hours 7 minutes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/02/17/2011021702021.html |title=여수엑스포 SOC 사업, 속도 낸다 |language=ko |date=2011-02-17 |newspaper=[[The Chosun Ilbo]] |access-date=2011-02-20}}</ref>  After the completion of the first stage of the [[Honam High Speed Railway]], the travel time is planned to reduce to 2 hours 25 minutes.<ref name="KTX-2011"/>