Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 station
Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 Station is a railway station on AREX and Incheon Airport Maglev. It is in Incheon International Airport's transport center and currently the terminus. Since June 2014, KTX operated from this station with stops at Geomam Station and Seoul Station towards Busan and Gwangju. Before the KTX opened services at this station, there was high-leveled platform which had no use. Since this time, only this platform didn't have platform screen doors because there was a plan for a 2nd airport railroad to go there, but this plan changed to KTX. After that, KTX started to run, they have changed the empty platform to a low leveled-platform to make KTX rideable. In the same year,[2] KTX expanded service to Incheon Airport. Since 2018, KTX service to Incheon Airport has been suspended[3] despite signage in both Terminal 1 and Terminal 2 saying otherwise. The suspension became permanent in September 2018 as the line was officially abolished.[4][5] Travelling to cities other than Seoul via rail is now only available after a transfer at Seoul Station via the AREX. In 2019, the KTX service was temporally operative again with 3 daily services to Gwangju, because of the 2019 World Aquatics Championships. The service started on July 9, and finished on July 29.[6]
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Incheon International Airport Terminal 1 station outside view | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Revised Romanization | Incheongonghang ilteomineollyeok | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Inch'ŏngonghang iltŏminŏllyŏk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | 2851 Unseo-dong, 271 Gonghangno, Jung-gu, Incheon | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | Korail Airport Corporation Incheon Transit Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | AREX Incheon Airport Maglev | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 4 (2 island platforms) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous names | Incheon International Airport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Key dates | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 23, 2007[1] | AREX opened | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
February 3, 2016 | Incheon Airport Maglev opened | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
March 28, 2018 | KTX service suspended | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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AREX has 11 stations and it is divided into two lines: commuter and express. For the commuter line, the train will stop in all stations. The express line stops only at Incheon International Airport Station and Seoul Station.
Incheon Airport Maglev can also be accessed from the same building.
Fares
Station layout
G | Street Level | |
L1 Concourse |
Lobby | Faregates, Ticketing Machines, Station Control |
L2 Platforms |
Side platform, doors will open on the left | |
Eastbound | → AREX Local toward Incheon Int'l Airport Terminal 2 (Terminus) → → AREX Express toward Incheon Int'l Airport Terminal 2 (Terminus) → | |
Westbound | ← AREX Local toward Seoul (Incheon Int'l Airport Cargo Terminal) ← AREX Express toward Seoul (Terminus) | |
Side platform, doors will open on the left |
References
- 인천국제공항역 (in Korean). Doopedia. Retrieved 2014-10-14.
- Incheon Airport KTX. Kojects, Tebay, Andy and Medimorec, Nikola, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-03.
- Medimorec, Nikola (10 June 2018). "Incheon Airport KTX Service Suspended". Kojects. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
In 2014, KORAIL began to offer KTX high-speed train connections from Incheon International Airport to Seoul, Daegu, Busan and other cities in Korea. The Incheon Airport KTX service was suspended now at the end of March 2018. The main reason was that the demand was too low and ridership stayed far below necessary numbers.
- 박, 재균 (7 August 2018). "9월부터 인천공항 KTX 노선 폐지". FNToday (in Korean). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- 민, 경석 (7 August 2018). "2014년 개통한 '인천공항 KTX' 폐지". News1 (in Korean). Retrieved 10 August 2018.
- "Incheon-Gwangju KTX Operating during 2019 FINA Masters". VisitKorea. 7 April 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-20. Retrieved 2015-04-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "공항철도 이용 > 일반열차 > 운임안내".
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