High-speed route
KTX-Eum Jungang Line
Seoul → Busan (Bujeon) · South Korea
KTX-Eum Jungang Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 402 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 56 min
- Average speed
- 102 km/h
- Top speed
- 260 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- EMU-260
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The rebuilt Jungang line, run through since December 2024: EMU-260 sets from Seoul past Confucian Andong and Gyeongju’s royal tombs, down the Donghae line to Bujeon in Busan in 3 h 56.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 8821065 (323 km), relation 6708903 (64 km) — 386 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.1% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- 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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