Editing Gyeongjeon Line (section)

====Suncheon-GwangjuSongjeong====

Between [[Hyocheon Station|Hyocheon]] and GwangjuSongjeong, to relieve congestion at road crossings in the city, the Gyeongjeon Line got a new alignment bypassing Gwangju to the south.<ref name="omn-gwangju">{{cite web |url=http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/view/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000059863&PAGE_CD= |title=안전제일 철도에서 위험천만 돌밭길로? |date=2001-11-24 |publisher=[[OhmyNews]] |access-date=2010-12-04}}</ref> The section of the old alignment between GwangjuSongjeong and Gwangju was upgraded as a {{convert|11.9|km|mi|abbr=on}} spur line, again called the Gwangju Line,<ref name="lineop"/> while the {{convert|10.8|km|mi|abbr=on}} section between Hyocheon and Gwangju, including Namgwangju Station, was torn up.<ref name="omn-gwangju"/> The realignments opened on August 10, 2000.<ref name="lineop"/>

The rest of the Suncheon-Gwangju section is foreseen for upgrading in a new 230&nbsp;km/h alignment under the government's 2010 plan for 2020.<ref name="plans2020"/> A decade later, only plans for single-track electrification were drawn up.