Chosen Government Railway

Chosen Government Railway
朝鮮總督府鐵道
조선총독부 철도
Locale Korea
Dates of operation 1909–1945
Predecessor Gyeongin Railway, Gyeongbu Railway, military railways, etc
Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
Electrification 3000 V DC (1,435 mm)
Headquarters Gyeongseong
Chosen Government Railway
Japanese name
Kanji 朝鮮總督府鐵道
Alternate Japanese name
Kanji 鮮鐵
Korean name
Hangul 조선총독부 철도
Hanja 朝鮮總督府鐵道
Alternate Korean name
Hangul 선철
Hanja 鮮鐵
Steam locomotives Pashiko 13 and Pashisa 7 of the Chosen Government Railways.

The Chosen Government Railway was a state-owned railway company in Korea under Japanese rule, and was a department of the Railway Bureau (Japanese: 鐵道局, Tetsudōkyoku; Korean: 철도국, Cheoldoguk) of the Government-General of Korea, whose functions were the management and operation of railways in Korea, as well as the supervision of privately owned railway companies.

History

After the end of the Second World War, all railways in Korea were nationalised, with the lines in South Korea becoming part of the Korean National Railroad, and those in North Korea becoming part of the Korean State Railway.

Organisation

The organisation of the Railway Bureau as of 1 September 1941:

Motive power

Classification system

The Chosen Government Railways system of classifying locomotives was as follows:[2]

Steam locomotive classes were expressed in the form of two characters taken from the US-style wheel arrangement names, plus a class number.

The type designations included the following:

For example, 4-6-2 is Pacific type, thus "Pashi", 2-8-2 is Mikado type, thus "Mika".

The class number is taken from Japanese numbers:

Thus, the third class of locomotives with a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement would be called パシサ - Pashisa.

Narrow-gauge steam locomotives did not use the designation forms based on wheel arrangement; instead, they all used ナキ ("Naki", from English "Narrow Gauge") plus a class number.

Classification of electric locomotives was slightly different from that used for steam locomotives. Although this also used the two character + class number arrangement, the first character was デ ("de", from 電気, denki, "electric"), while the second character indicated the number of powered axles (using the same number abbreviations as used for the class number). In practice, Sentetsu had only two types of electric locomotive, both with six powered axles - デロイ (DeRoI) and デロニ (DeRoNi).

Routes

The rail lines of the Chosen Government Railway in 1945:

Private railways

A number of private railways existed during the period of the Japanese occupation of Korea; these were overseen by the Railway Bureau. After the end of the Second World War, these were all nationalised, both in North and South Korea.

In 1945 the following privately owned railways were in operation in Korea:

References

  1. ↑ 철도주요연표 - 한국철도협회 Chronology of Major Railways - Korean Railway Association
  2. ↑ http://ameblo.jp/gon-xiaodao/entry-11115860382.html
  3. ↑ 대구선 일부구간 이설 개통 (in Korean). Silvernet News. 2005-11-14.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 5143, 29 March 1944
  5. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
  6. 1 2 3 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 1741, 26 October 1932 (in Japanese)
  7. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 1963, 26 July 1933 (in Japanese)
  8. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Taishō No. 998, 1 December 1915 (in Japanese)
  9. ↑ "[책갈피 속의 오늘]1901년 경부선 철도 기공 ". The Dong-a Ilbo. 2007-08-20.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "경영원칙 > 경영공시 > 영업현황 > 영업거리현황". Korail.
  11. 1 2 Kokubu, Hayato (2007), 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), Tokyo, Shinchosha, ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ Japanese Government Railways (1937), 鉄道停車場一覧. 昭和12年10月1日現在(The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, p502
  14. ↑ "전라지방 - 교통∙통신체계의 발달" (PDF). Land Portal.
  15. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 4536, 13 March 1942
  16. 1 2 3 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 1947 7 July 1933
  17. ↑ Korail, 철도주요연표(The Principal Chronic of the Korean Railway) 2010, 2010
  18. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Meiji No. 32, 5 October 1910
  19. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 4236, 8 March 1941
  20. ↑ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 5070, 27 December 1943
  21. ↑ 朝鮮総督部官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor–General of Korea), Shōwa No. 4854, 9 April 1943 (in Japanese)
  22. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 4729, 4 November 1942
  23. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3505, 20 September 1938
  24. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 4695, 19 September 1942
  25. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3788, 4. September 1939
  26. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3841, 8 November 1939
  27. ↑ 金剛山電気鉄道について (in Japanese)
  28. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3813, 3 October 1939
  29. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 3736, 5 July 1939
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