Ongp'yŏng station is a railway station in Ongp'yŏng-dong, greater Munch'ŏn city, Kangwŏn province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the Munch'ŏn Port Line to Koam.[1]
Ongp'yŏng 옥평 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Korean name | ||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 옥평역 | |||||||||||||||
| Hanja | ||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Okpyeong-yeok | |||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Okp'yŏng-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Ongp'yŏng-dong, Munch'ŏn-si, Kangwŏn North Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°17′14″N 127°18′19″E / 39.2871°N 127.3053°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 21 July 1916 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Munch'ŏn station 문천역 (文川駅) | |||||||||||||||
| Original company | Chosen Government Railway | |||||||||||||||
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History
editOriginally called Munch'ŏn station (Chosŏn'gŭl: 문천역; Hanja: 文川駅), the station, along with the rest of the Ongp'yŏng–Kowŏn–Kŭmya section of the former Hamgyŏng Line, was opened by the Chosen Government Railway on 21 July 1916,[2] while the Munch'ŏn Port Line was opened on 17 December 1943 by the Chosen Anthracite Company as a privately owned railway.[3] This line, like all other railway lines in North Korea, was nationalised after the Second World War, becoming part of the Korean State Railway.;[1] the station received its current name after that.
References
edit- ^ a b Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ^ Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧 昭和12年10月1日現在 (The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, 1937, pp 498–501, 504–505 (in Japanese)
- ^ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 5070, 27 December 1943