THE first section of the Sin Bundang Line opened on October 28 in the Korean capital Seoul. The 18.5km line with six stations runs from Gangnam south to Bundang and interchanges with three existing lines.
THE first section of the Sin Bundang Line opened on October 28 in the Korean capital Seoul. The 18.5km line with six stations runs from Gangnam south to Bundang and interchanges with three existing lines.
The project has been implemented as public-private partnership by the government and Doosan Engineering & Construction Consortium. Hyundai Rotem has supplied a fleet of 12 six-car trains, while Thales has installed its SelTrac moving-block communications-base train control (CBTC) system. This allows trains to operate entirely automatically without drivers at up to 90km/h underground.
