with a primary aim to serve freight traffic that could eventually access the Trans-Siberian Railway. As part of the project, plans foresaw to connect the end of the Yeongdong Line in Gangneung with Jejin by long, single-track, non-electrified line for , effectively re-building the Donghae Bukbu Line on a new alignment. Three years later, the project re-surfaced as a domestic project. On September 1, 2010, the South Korean government announced a strategic plan to reduce travel times from Seoul to 95% of the country to under 2 hours by 2020. The section from Gangneung to Sokcho forms a part of the plan as a line for , and may see KTX service. Gallery See also Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line - the North Korean section of the former Donghae Bukbu Line References International railway lines Railway lines in South Korea Railway lines opened in 1929