The privately owned Tasado Railway opened a 39 kilometers line from South Sinŭiju interlocking on the Kyŏngŭi Line of Chosen Government Railway (Sentetsu) to Tasado Port via Yangsi, called the Tasado Line, on 31 October 1939, 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr.