High-speed route
KTX Honam
Seoul → Mokpo · South Korea
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Korea’s second high-speed spine: across the Honam rice plain to Gwangju and Mokpo’s seafood quays, where ferries fan out to a thousand islands.
Stations
- 0 kmYongsan
- 166 kmGongju
- 212 kmIksan
- 371 kmMokpo
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11272646 — 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 3 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 KTX Honam?
The KTX Honam runs 370 km from Seoul to Mokpo.
How long does the KTX Honam take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 15 min for the 370 km. That is an average of 164 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 305 km/h.
Who runs the KTX Honam?
Korail, with KTX-Sancheon.
How old is the KTX Honam?
The line has been in service since 2015. 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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