Classic route
ITX-Cheongchun
Seoul → Chuncheon · South Korea
ITX-Cheongchun in pictures
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- Distance
- 88 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 12 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- Class 371
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2012
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
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
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