However, some new construction did take place, mostly to complete projects interrupted either by the end of Japanese rule or by the Korean War, such as the Tŏkp'al Line, which had been started by the privately owned West Chosen Central Railway in the early 1940s, to run from Tŏkch'ŏn to P'arwŏn, but of which only 12 kilometers to Changsangri had been completed by war's end; the project was revived after the Korean War and finished to P'arwŏn in 1954.