While serving as a central location for supervising the nationwide railway operations, consolidated control center is complete with Centralized Traffic Control Center (CTC), which automatically operates and supervises the railways to run on schedule.

For the first time in Korea, 'Shield TBM method' was applied to this 'Wangsipri-Seonreung double tracked railway project' digging a tunnel at the bottom of Han River. The soundings of the third section are up to 20m, and the tunnel length is 846m. 'Shield TBM(Tunnel Boring Machine) method' was designed by Mr. Mark Brunel from England, in 1818, and since it was applied to the riverbed tunnel at River Thames in London for the first time, it has been regarded as the safest and most economical engineering method in the world. The broad railroad Bundang double tracked railway project is a construction project to extend the existing Seonreung-Bojeong Bundang line to Wangsipri, which means to construct the 6.8km long rails. This is expected to be completed by 2010.

Korea Railroad Research Institute(KRRI) was founded in March 1996 financed by the Korean government. The nation's sole railway research body is committed to improving the overall railway systems built upon nationwide rail networks in order to maintain competitiveness in the global market. The experts group serves the purpose in an optimal manner by teaming up with academia, industry and government.

KRRI has come a long way since its inception to develop highly advanced rail technology in the nation for the passenger. Specifically, the railway research body is currently involved with several national projects among which are Korean high speed rail, Urban light rail transit, K-AGT and standardization and tilting transit system, Tilting Train Express for speed up on conventional lines. (www.krri.re.kr)

Dorasan Station is the northernmost international station located over 700 meters from the South boundary line of DMZ. It not only is a symbolic place of the Gyeong-ui(Seoul-Sinuiju) railroad line connection hereafter, has an another historical meaning as a gateway of interchange between the south and the North.

Dora Observatory is located within the Civilian Limit Line and the northernmost observatory in the South where you can see North Korea closest at hand. Propaganda village and farmland of North Korea are spread just before us, and some city area of Gaeseong, Gaeseong Industrial Complex and a bronze statue of Kim II-Seong can be seen through a telescope.