Classic route
ITX-Cheongchun
Seoul → Chuncheon · South Korea
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Double-deck 180 km/h EMU on the Youth Line, racing up the Bukhan River to the lake city of Chuncheon, home of dak-galbi.
Stations
- 0 kmYongsan +3
- 7 kmOksu
- 10 kmWangsimni
- 13 kmCheongnyang-ri +2
- 36 kmPyeongnaeHopyeong
- 57 kmCheongpyeong
- 69 kmGapyeong
- 82 kmGangchon
- 95 kmNamchuncheon
- 98 kmChuncheon
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14115749 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Korail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the ITX-Cheongchun?
The ITX-Cheongchun runs 88 km from Seoul to Chuncheon.
How long does the ITX-Cheongchun take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 12 min for the 88 km. That is an average of 73 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 180 km/h.
Who runs the ITX-Cheongchun?
Korail, with Class 371.
How old is the ITX-Cheongchun?
The line has been in service since 2012. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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