The Gyeongnam Line (慶南線, Keinan-sen) was a railway line of the Chōsen Railway (Chōtetsu) of colonial-era Korea, located in South Gyeongsang Province.
History On 13 July 1918, the privately owned Chōsen Southern Railway was granted a concession to build a railway line from Songjeongni (now Gwangju Songjeong) to Masan, but it wasn't until June 1922 that work on the first section, from Masan to Jinju, began. The line was not yet opened when the Chōsen Southern Railway merged with five other privately owned railways to create the Chōsen Railway on 1 September 1923;Establishment of the Chosen Railway, Dong-A Ilbo, 3 September 1923 (in Korean) it was only three months after the merger, on 1 December 1923, that the first section, from Masan to Gunbuk, was opened, under the name Gyeongnam Line. The remaining section to Jinju was opened on 15 June 1925. On 1 April 1931, the state-owned Chōsen Government Railway bought the Gyeongnam Line, merging it with its own Masan Line to create the Gyeongjeon Nambu Line running from Samnangjin to Jinju.
Route + 慶南線 - 경남선 - Keinan Line - Gyeongnam Line Distance Station name Total; km S2S; km Transcribed, Korean Transcribed, Japanese Hunminjeongeum Hanja/Kanji Connections 0.0 0.0 Masan Masan 마산 馬山 Sentetsu Masan Line,Sentetsu Masanhang Line 6.3 6.3 Jungni Chūri 중리 中里 13.5 7.2 San'in Sanjin 산인 山仁 17.5 4.0 Ham'an Kan'an 함안 咸安 26.3 8.8 Gunbuk Gunhoku 군북 郡北 29.9 3.6 Wonbuk Inhoku 원북 院北 35.7 5.8 Pyeongchon Heison 평촌 坪村 40.3 4.6 Jinju-Sumokwon Shinshū-Jumokuen 진주수목원 晉州樹木園 42.1 1.8 Banseong Hanjō 반성 班城 48.0 5.9 Jinseong Shinjō 진성 晉城 51.0 3.0 Galcheon Kasson 갈촌 葛村 57.0 6.0 Nammunsan Nanbunzan 남문산 南文山 62.2 5.2 Gaeyang Kaiyō 개양 開陽 66.9 4.7 Jinju Shinshū 진주 晉州
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