Sŏhamhŭng station (West Hamhŭng station) is a railway station in Sŏngch'ŏngang-guyŏk, Hamhŭng city, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Sŏho Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] Locomotive and rolling stock maintenance facilities for the narrow gauge equipment used on the line are located here.
West Hamhŭng 서함흥 | |||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||
| Hangul | 서함흥역 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | |||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Seohamheung-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏhamhŭng-yŏk | ||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Sŏngch'ŏngang-guyŏk, Hamhŭng-si, South Hamgyŏng North Korea | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 25 August 1923 | ||||||||||
| Original company | Sinhŭng Railway | ||||||||||
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History
editThe station was opened on 25 August 1923 by the Sinhŭng Railway, becoming the northern terminus of the Namhŭng Line between Sŏho station and here when the first section of that line, West Hamhŭng–Ch'ŏngiri, was opened on 11 May 1934. The Sinhŭng Railway was bought and absorbed by the Chosen Railway on 22 April 1938.[2] Although originally the Hamhŭng–Hamnam Sinhŭng Hamnam Line ran through West Hamhŭng station, since the regauging of that line the new standard-gauge line bypasses this station.[3]
References
edit- ^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ^ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 3385, 3 May 1938