How to get to Gangchon Rail Bike Park?

The fastest way to get to Gangchon Rail Bike Park is to take the ITX Cheongchun Line (from Yongsan or Cheongyangni in Seoul) to Namchuncheon and change to the subway back to Gimyujeong Station. The Gangchon Rail Bike Park is located a 5 minute walk away from Gimyujeong Station.

For the ITX from Seoul, you can either take it from Yongsan or Cheongyangni Station. It is better to book your tickets online as the ITX Cheongchun trains are extremely popular among tourists who wish to head to Nami Island.

At the booking page, key in your departure time, departure station, and the arrival station.

For the departure station, you can key in Yongsan or Cheongyangni while the arrival station, key in Namchuncheon.

Then, from the dropdown menu, click ITX Cheongchun and the number of passengers required. On the next page, select the time of departure that you would like, and pay for the tickets.

On the day of your departure, head over to the ticket counter to exchange your printouts to the actual tickets!

Upon arrival at Namchuncheon, head over to the subway platform and get on the train to Gimyucheong Station. The train timings from Namchuncheon is quite infrequent, so do ensure that you quickly head to the platform to get the train, if not, it may mean that you’ll have to wait about 20-30 minutes for the next train. If that is the case, you can always head out of Namchuncheon to grab a bite at the nearby stores before heading back up to take the train! (Do note that if you exit the station, you’ll need to buy another ticket to take the subway)

At Gimyucheong Station, you’ll be able to see the rail park and it is only a short 5 minute walk away!

How to get the Gangchon Rail Bike Park Tickets?

Do note that you should also book the rail bike tickets beforehand. Especially during weekends, the Koreans love heading to the countryside! There are the 2-seater bikes and the 4-seater bikes for your selection.

However, the booking process is quite tedious as the only way to book it is through the website and it is only available in Korean!

So you can either…

1. Use google chrome to book it, or

2. Book through Klook.com

* Do pay the extra 1000 won for the VR experience! Although it was quite a short VR game play, there was real pyrotechnics used in the tunnel and we really enjoyed it!

As we only decided to head to the rail bike park when we were in Seoul, we checked online for the available bikes the day before. We saw that they had about 10 bikes at the time slot we were heading to and decided to try our luck! Thankfully, we managed to get the tickets and there we go!

The route for the rail bike takes about 40 minutes of cycling and you will reach a rest point where there is a cafe that you can purchase some drinks, and a snack and souvenir store. Here is where you can also have a toilet break! Thereafter, you will take a scenic train ride all the way to the old Gangchon Station! From there, you can either ride the shuttle bus back to Gimyucheong Station or take a 15 minute walk to the new Gangchon Station.

We really enjoyed the rail bike experience with the beautiful scenery and the different themed tunnels. It will definitely be a memorable experience for both the young and the old!

Railbike Adventures director Geoff Main said he believes the project, on a 90-kilometre stretch of the line between Gisborne and Wairoa, will be a world first.

The company has just won an expressions of interest tender with KiwiRail to operate a cycle route on top of the tracks. It will retain the current infrastructure without requiring any capital expenditure or maintenance.

Main said he came up with the idea in the middle of the night about six years ago.

“The cycle actually sits on the railway line, it’s got special guide wheels,” Main said. “If you can imagine two bikes sitting side-by-side, one on one rail and one on the other, with a chassis that joins them together.

“It’s a cycle, the only point of difference is you don’t have to steer it and you don’t have to balance it so it’s accessible to a whole lot of people.”

The company was also working on an electronically-assisted version, and eventually one for paraplegics.

It has only built the prototype so far but plan to build about 200 tandem bike units

“We based the numbers on what the Otago Rail Trail’s doing and we think we’ll do the same sort of numbers, which will mean we’re setting off two or three hundred people a day,” he said.

“We all know how cycling has boomed in the last five, 10 years so we wanted to fit in with that trend and we believe that this does quite nicely.”

The bikes were designed so that, should a pair want to overtake slower cyclists, the bikes can be easily lifted off the tracks and fitted ahead of them.

“The other side of that is if you see a place where you want to have a picnic, of which there are hundreds, it’s a very beautiful area, you can just stop, pull the bike off an have lunch.”

The trail had been designed as a two-day ride, with people setting off from Gisborne, staying the night in Mahia, then heading to Wairoa the next day.

“You’re in the saddle for about four hours a day; it’s a pretty easy day.”

Main hoped the first tourists would be on the trail by early 2018.

“We’re supremely confident that this product is going to be an absolute winner,” Main said.

“We’re just over the moon that we’ve got it. It’s taken six years to get to this point.”

It would be up to New Zealand Transport Agency to decide if cyclists would be required to wear helmets on the bikes.

In November 2016 KiwiRail asked for expressions of interest from tourism operators to run services on the section of the Napier-Gisborne line, which was closed after major storm damage in 2012.

KiwiRail has reached separate agreements with Gisborne City Vintage Railway for the Gisborne-Muriwai section and with Napier Port for the Napier-Wairoa section.

KiwiRail spokesman David Gordon said Railbike Adventures would help to grow the region’s economy by bringing a new, innovative tourism experience to New Zealand.

“It was important that we found the right fit for this section of the track, not just for KiwiRail but for the local community,” Gordon said.

A Joseph Oregon “Rail Rider” — What a blast to ride!!

July 2014 – While roaming around the backside of the pretty town of Joseph, Oregon, we came across a guy working on the most unusual looking tandem bicycle.

It had two seats side by side and was sitting on the old railroad tracks of an unused railway line.

The Joseph Branch Railriders is a fantastic excursion on the old railway.

We discovered that this fellow was Kim Metlen, and this bike was one of his fleet of eleven “rail riders,” a clever invention he has designed so folks can ride the old railways under their own power.

What a fantastic idea!

There are 63 miles of old unused railroad tracks near Joseph

As we discovered in Baker City, all of eastern Oregon is a mecca for road cycling.

Kim has been part of the local cycling industry for decades, having owned a very successful bike shop in nearby LaGrande for ages.

Our friends Katie and Dick check out the rails

Now that he is retired, he has put his energies into creating an inventive new use for the old railroad tracks that criss-cross his beloved eastern Oregon.

We had seen the sign for his excursions next to Red Horse Coffee Traders, the wonderful coffee shop and gathering place for locals and visitors that we had been frequenting everyday.

Woo hoo!!

By crazy coincidence, friends of ours from Arizona who are both cyclists and RVers were in town, and they had signed up for the ride.  What a fun thing to do together!

Our starting time was 9:00 on a Sunday, but it was a casual affair with couples and families arriving and getting set up on their bikes and starting the ride at their own pace.

We jumped in our rail car and soon got our crazy contraption rolling – what fun!

Currently, the excursion is a six mile ride between tiny Joseph (pop. 1,000) and the “big” town of Enterprise nearby (pop. 2,000).

The two sets of pedals are independent.

It is a very mild descent from Joseph to Enterprise and then a very mild climb back to Joseph, and everyone was grinning as they took off on these super-easy-to-ride bikes.

Built of standard bicycle parts, Mark and I kicked back in our recumbent seats and pedaled independently.

Sometimes I stopped pedaling so I could enjoy the views and snap photos, and sometimes Mark quit and let me do the work.

It was very cool going over the track switches at the beginning near Joseph’s depot, sitting on this tiny open air pedal-driven train.

What a way to see the scenery around Joseph!

It is so cool to ride where the trains used to go…

The view was filled with the glorious snow-capped mountains of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, and we saw deer along the tracks and pretty red barns in the distance.

Kim had been operating Joseph Branch Railriders for only five weeks when we took our ride, yet with rides offered at 9:00, noon and 3:00 pm, the weekend we went was all booked up!

There are 63 miles of rails in the region, although this fabulous rail ride uses only 6 miles of track at the moment.

Just can’t stop taking pics of those pretty red barns!!

Kim is a very clever engineer and has a hoist system to ensure his bike is always at the back of the group.

With any luck, Kim will one day obtain permission to expand his fabulous outings to run on all those other lines as well.

He accompanied the group in a specially equipped rail rider that he rode behind us all.

His rail car had a small motor (afterall, he does this ride three times a day!).

At the turnaround point in Enterprise, he hoisted his rail rider up so all the other bikes could be rolled ahead of his underneath and he could ride the back of the group on the return trip too.

In Enterprise we all turned our bikes around to point back towards Joseph.

Then we picked up our bikes and turned them around to face the other way.

And we were off once again!

Later, when we mentioned our ride to locals around town, everyone we talked to was really excited about it.

“I can’t wait to try that!” we kept hearing from folks who had heard about it but hadn’t yet been out themselves.

Getting ready for the return ride to Joseph.

Sometimes the railriders spread out and sometimes we bunched together.

There are lots of rails-to-trails programs across the country, and especially in the northwest.

We loved the 72-mile Trail of the Coeur d’Alenetrail in northern Idaho and the Wood Valley Trail System in Sun Valley Idaho.

Most of these rails-to-trails programs involve removing the rails and replacing them with pavement or gravel.

Kim’s brilliant invention is a really creative way to retain the integrity of the rails and let people ride them on their own without removing them.

The beautiful views surrounded us.

He has hopes of eventually opening these thin strips of land along the railways to a variety of modes of travel.

Rather than replacing the iron rails with pavement or gravel, he envisions a “Rails AND Trails” program.

People could not only ride the rails using his special bikes, but they could also walk or ride traditional bikes on a paved or gravel path that runs alongside.

Obtaining the agreement of ranchers whose properties abut the railways is not so easy, but these rail cars are such a blast to ride that the idea can’t help but catch on.

Everyone had a blast!

As Mark and I pedaled, we started fantasizing about being able to ride all the unused rails on this continent in this way.

Wouldn’t it be fun to do a multi-day trip, riding from town to town across the west?!

We could hop off to explore places on foot, and spend nights camping or staying in little hotels along the route…

This ride was one of the biggest highlights of our visit to Joseph!

A friend of ours who was a conductor for Pacific Union in the northwest said one of the best parts of his job was the spectacular scenery he saw out the window every day.

Riding this little six mile section of track, the views of the snowy mountain peaks grew all around us and kept our heads turning.

When the ride ended (all too soon!) and the pairs of riders came back into Joseph, everyone was grinning and saying what fun they’d had.

If you get to Joseph, Oregon, get a cuppa Joe at Red Horse Coffee Traders and look for Kim and his unusual bike display and signup area next door.

Don’t miss this train!!

For more info, visit this link: Joseph Branch Railriders.

You’ll probably be asked this question hundreds of times this summer by anyone from your most extreme friend to your grandmother’s knitting buddies. That’s because the newest outdoor activity on Earth is beloved by adventure seekers of all ages.

Put simply, rail biking is riding pedal-powered machines along railroads that have no train traffic. Rail bike tours are new and expanding all over the world, making use of defunct rail lines that traverse scenic natural areas. Here’s a closer look at the best rail bike tour operators.

RAIL EXPLORERS USA

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This company provides rail bike tours in the Catskill Mountains and Rhode Island (a Las Vegas operation is slated to open soon). With scenic views throughout the relaxed excursion, these trips are perfect for those looking to get off the beaten path and check out the region in a very new and exciting way.

Rail Explorers USA offer two types of “Explorer” vehicles: a tandem for two people or quads for up to four people. They are safe, well-designed and easy to use.

The Catskills tour brings people alongthe historic Ulster and Delaware Railroad, where they travel alongside Esopus Creek through the woods. Bring a snack and a drink for lunch at the creekside turnaround. The trip is eight miles roundtrip and takes about 2.5 hours.

The Rhode Island trip offers two tours: “The Northern Ramble” and “The Southern Circuit.” The Ramble takes guests on a six-mile jaunt from Portsmouth to the Sakonnet River. It’s a one-way trip with a return via shuttle bus. The Circuit trip is six miles roundtrip and allows guests to eat lunch at a private waterfront picnic area.

FLEKKEFJORDBANEN

Who says southern Norway doesn’t have some of the best rail biking on Earth? Well … no one. But if you’re in the Flekkefjord area and looking for stunning nature scenes, architectural wonders and some leg-pumping, self-propelled action, the rail-biking tour at Flekkefjordbanen is not to be missed.

This railway line operated for nearly all of the 20th century, connecting Flekkefjord to Sørlandsbanen. Though the last journey made by the Flekkefjordbanen train was in 1990, visitors and locals alike can once again tour this magical area by rail — by bike.

Norwegians in this area are intent on preserving the railroad and turning it into a living museum. Example A: The slogan, which goes “cultural salvation through active use.” Rail biking is the perfect way to put that slogan into action. An activity suitable for old and young alike, the track takes you through a beautiful natural landscape and no less than 17 tunnels. There are tours every day in the summer.

REVOLUTION RAIL CO.

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Revolution Rail Co.

The Adirondacks-based Revolution Rail Co. leads riders on a six-mile adventure through the forest along the Hudson River in New York. One of the highlights of this fairly flat-terrain ride is crossing a trestle bridge over the Hudson (think Stand By Me sans train). At the turnaround point, riders can refuel with a snack and a drink while the bikes are readied for the return trip.

This trip will truly be an exploration for most, considering this section of the Adirondacks has never seen passenger traffic before. Tours run throughout each day and there is no minimum age requirement, meaning baby Timmy can be a part of the fun.

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Reader Will appears to be interested in rails as well, but he wants to ride on them – literally.  Check it out –

Will included the following text –

A rail-bike is a bicycle that has been modified to be able to ride on the rails of a railroad. The front wheel has a device attached to it so that the bike won’t steer off the rail while an outrigger is used to support the bike using the other rail.

I used conduit, cut up “razor” scooters parts, one bike fork two bits of steel and numerous nuts, bolts, washers and retaining pins.  Nothing is welded.  The hardest part is getting the spacing right so that friction and play are minimized.

A lot of person hours certainly went in to this working model and the details are pretty amazing.

New projects are sometimes learning experiences and Will also wrote –

Seems I became a bit to confident in my design, and while traveling at somewhere around 16 MPH I had a derailment.  The guide in the bike side caught a rail tie stopping the bike immediately, and as I was traveling over the bars, the frame bent behind the lugs at the head tube, seat tube and bottom bracket, so the fame is a total loss.

Ouch!  Will has noted that he will continue his pursuit of a safe rail bike and will keep us updated.  Additional photos and commentary of this project can be found on the Velospace.org Forum.

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That’s an interesting idea, but there are a couple of caveats. One is that unless you are riding on what you know to be a defunct rail line, you are always in danger of meeting an oncoming (or an overtaking) train. I don’t know how long it takes to remove a rail bike from the rails, but I guarantee you the engineer isn’t going to come to a complete stop and wait for you.

Secondly, riding on railroad property is definitely considered trespassing and you could end up being apprehended and cited, or even arrested and jailed.

Lastly, Panasonics were a beautiful example of the mid to late 1970s Japanese bikes that were responsible for a lot of people taking to the road during the “bike boom”. It’s a crying shame to see one come to such a tragic end.

Posted by: Bicycle Bill | 04/30/2012 at 05:11 AM

I have so been doing this in my head for years. Amazing to see it out in the world.

Next step: A side-by-side no-weld tandem!

Posted by: eric | 04/30/2012 at 03:08 PM

It’s no more of a crying shame to see this Panasonic come to a tragic end than if it had been crashed any other way.
This is a great idea and a fun project. Rail bikes have been around for a long time and people have been having fun on them for a long time. Keep up the project and ride on. I find it amazing the Bicycle Bill gives a lesson on the challenges of rail bikes as if he is seeing them for the first time but then feels qualified to give us all a lesson on Panasonic frames as if we had never heard of them.

Posted by: Scott Dedenbachh | 05/01/2012 at 07:02 AM

Would love to see video of the bike in action (obviously before the crash).

would roller wheels have helped as inside rail guides vise the metal blade design?

Would a mountain bike be a better adept bike (shocks/wider tires etc…)?

I’m envisioning a lovely ride through the country side to ghost towns on now defunct rails to be a wonderful view.

Posted by: chattafuup | 05/01/2012 at 11:41 AM

Actually, this is not the first time I had seen a rail-bike. The first one I saw, twenty or more years ago, was also home-built but used flanged wheels as the guides; since the wheels rode the top of the rails there was nothing underneath to snag a high tie or spikehead (the rubber bike tires still rode the top of the rails for traction and propulsion).

As for the Japanese bikes, not everyone *has* seen a good-quality Japanese bike like the Panasonic. Ever since the yen started fluctuating so wildly against the dollar in the late 1980s, most bikes coming into this country — even the quintessential Japanese bicycle brand, Fuji — originate in Taiwan or mainland China.

Posted by: Bicycle Bill | 05/01/2012 at 03:31 PM

Wasn’t there a Bicycling article about these hacks about 30 years ago? Maybe it was some other magazine? I share the sentiments about the Panasonic frame. Those were nice bikes, the shop I worked at in the 80s soled them.

Posted by: Tom | 05/01/2012 at 09:56 PM

I tell myself I must have faith. Rushangshenglongba

Posted by: oakley sunglass wholesale | 05/07/2012 at 09:54 PM

Rail bike idea was stolen from an old movie. It’s not cool to claim ideas that you didn’t invent. The design was much better in the movie anyway.

Posted by: SuperNiggler | 05/09/2012 at 11:29 PM

This is not an idea from any movie. The rail bike was a normal work tool used by rail maintenance service worldwide in the old days. You can see such bikes in many rail museums. This is a cool adaptation of the old concept of such technical vehicle made from a regular bike.

Posted by: Simon | 05/10/2012 at 10:12 AM

Being a railbiker I found lots of info at: Google “Bentley rail tours”

Posted by: NEPMTBA | 03/12/2013 at 04:33 PM

Chill…he never claimed to have invented it.

Posted by: Terrefirma | 02/04/2015 at 08:36 AM

Don’t drive on the railroad tracks? Good advice for Bill Murray but the Groundhog Day star never rode on South Korea’s Jeongseon Auraji Rail Bike route.

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The Jeongseon Auraji Rail Bike route in South Korea’s northeastern Gangwon Province runs along a 7.2 kilometer (4.47 mile) long track between Jeongseon Auraji and Gujeol-ri stations, descending from the former to the latter on a slight downward grade that won’t tax even elderly rail-bikers.

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The route utilizes a railway that became obsolete and abandoned after 1999 when coal-mining operations in the area closed down. Korail (Korea Railroad Corporation, the state-owned railroad operator) and the national Korean tourism organization were reluctant to let the track fall into disrepair and at the same time, were seeking ways to boost the region’s economy.

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They found the answer to both conundrums by looking to Europe, where the “sport” of rail-biking has become popular in scenic areas once served by railroads. The most expensive aspect of establishing a rail bike route is the actual rails – exploiting recently disused railroads makes perfect economic sense!

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Korail even found a way to reuse and recycle some other bits of obsolete railway infrastructure, as can be seen at the rail bike route’s starting point at Gujeol-ri Station: a unique cafe called “A Grasshopper’s Dream” was built out of two disused train cars plus assorted rails and platform pieces. Never mind the cafe’s form brings to kind a pair of locusts doing the nasty – what better dream for a grasshopper than to be locked in a loving embrace for all eternity?

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The rail bikes used on the Jeongseon Auraji Rail Bike route are brightly colored with comfortably padded seats. 2-person bikes weighing 110 kilograms (68.35 lbs) and 4-person bikes weighing 138 kilograms (85.75 lbs) are available – a minimum of two people are required to drive either size rail bike.

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The rail bikes are the direct descendants of those old human-powered handcars (also known as pump trolleys, pump cars, jiggers, Kalamazoos and draisines) that achieved their popularity peak back in the nineteenth century. The biggest difference between handcars and rail bikes, however, is that rail bikes are pedaled like bicycles making for a more leisurely and less strenuous trip… even when riding through a long, cool mine tunnel!

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Sloping grade or not, the rail bikes typically have a top speed of just 15kph (9.3mph) and being mounted on rails, there’s no need to steer. Instead, passengers are free to enjoy the stunning mountain scenery on their way down to Auraji station… which is designed in the shape of a fish, just because! Don’t fear the return trip and pedaling a rail bike uphill all the way, as an actual train brings riders back to Gujeol-ri station in comfort AND style.

Read more at https://www.momtastic.com/webecoist/2015/07/21/korean-rail-bike-route-recycles-the-railroad/#W49rbOkHvqTUugJb.99

Such eco-friendly tourism is loved by many green enthusiasms all over the global, for it has little to no impact on environment.  On the other hand, it’s high accessibility suitable for young and old, as well as making it possible for disabled or paraplegics to have a chance to go outdoors and enjoy the sightseeing and breath fresh air.

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