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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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 Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: Incheon airport train |
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| I just got back from the airport and noticed that there is now a train that goes to the airport! Does anyone know where it leaves from? Is there a subway/KTX connection? Didn't see many people in the train area, so I'm assuming it just recently opened? |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:11 am Post subject: |
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The train to from Incheon terminates at Gimpo (Domestic Airport). The Gimpo -> Seoul section won't be completed until 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incheon_International_Airport_Railroad
"After significant delays, construction of the line started in 2002. The first 37.6 km segment from Incheon Airport to Gimpo opened on March 23, 2007,[1] with the remaining length of 20.4 km to Seoul Station scheduled to be operational in January 2010.
The line is being constructed by a consortium (Eukorail) headed by French company Alstom and South Korean company Rotem, which also built the KTX high-speed train line.
The line was officially named the Incheon International Airport Railroad (인천국제공항철도), abbreviated I'REX, in July 1998, but was renamed in June 2006." |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Thanks!! Guess I've got to wait 3 more years!!  |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| ajuma wrote: |
| Thanks!! Guess I've got to wait 3 more years!! |
No, just take the regular subway to Gimpo (line 5) and change to the airport train. Cost is 3,100 won. |
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ajuma
Joined: 18 Feb 2003
Location: Anywere but Seoul!!
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| Ah! But I don't live in Seoul...but I DO live near the KTX!! |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:39 am Post subject: |
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| I read in a newspaper that the section connecting to Seoul Station would be open in 2008. Sorry, don't have a link or more info. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye
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| Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 5:20 am Post subject: |
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I'll be heading there in exactly... 3 weeks and 1 day.
probably take the airport limousine though. |
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