High-speed route
KTX Gangneung Line
Seoul → Gangneung · South Korea
KTX Gangneung Line in pictures
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- Distance
- 223 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 54 min
- Average speed
- 117 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- KTX-Sancheon · KTX-Eum
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Built for the PyeongChang 2018 Games: under the Taebaek passes in a 22 km tunnel, out to Gangneung’s espresso beaches on the East Sea.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 12239797 (50 km), relation 8825878 (121 km) — 171 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in KO) ↗
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