Pyonggang station
P'yŏnggang station is a railway station in P'yŏnggang-ŭp, P'yŏnggang county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] It is the terminus station of this line, although prior to the Korean War, the railway continued on to Sintal-li, which is nowadays the northern terminus of the Kyŏngwŏn Line in South Korea.
P'yŏnggang 평강 | |||||||||||
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Korean name | |||||||||||
Hangul | 평강역 | ||||||||||
Hanja | |||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Pyeonggang-yeok | ||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | P'yŏnggang-yŏk | ||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | P'yŏnggang-ŭp, P'yŏnggang, Kangwŏn North Korea | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 38.4111°N 127.2891°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 16 August 1914 | ||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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The station, along with the rest of the former Kyŏngwŏn Line, was opened by the Japanese on 16 August 1914.[2]
References
- Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道 (in Japanese). Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
- "경영원칙 > 경영공시 > 영업현황 > 영업거리현황". Korail. Retrieved 2015-09-17.
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