High-speed route
SRT
Seoul (Suseo) → Busan · South Korea
SRT in pictures
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- Distance
- 400 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 185 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- SR
- Train
- SRT 120000 series
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The upstart from Gangnam. SRT slips out of Suseo through the 50 km Yulhyeon Tunnel and undercuts KTX fares all the way to Busan.
How this line was checked
- The 145 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11214688 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 18 m); the longest stretch away from it is 10.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: the railway’s own site — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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