High-speed route
KTX
Seoul → Busan · South Korea
Korea’s TGV-derived flagship halved the Seoul–Busan run: today the corridor is one of the most intensively served on Earth.
- Distance
- 417 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 185 km/h
- Top speed
- 305 km/h
Stations
- 0 kmSeoul +6
- 160 kmDaejeon +1
- 286 kmDongdaegu +1
- 417 kmBusan +4
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 11214334: 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?
The KTX runs 417 km from Seoul to Busan.
How long does the KTX take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 2 h 15 min for the 417 km. That is an average of 185 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 305 km/h.
Who runs the KTX?
Korail, with KTX, KTX-Sancheon.
How old is the KTX?
The line has been in service since 2004. 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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