Okpyong Station
Okp'yŏng 옥평 | ||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Korean name | ||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 옥평역 | |||||||||||||||
Hanja | 玉坪驛 | |||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Okpyeong-yeok | |||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Okp'yŏng-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location |
Okp'yŏng-dong, Munch'ŏn-si, Kangwŏn North Korea | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 39°17′14″N 127°18′19″E / 39.2871°N 127.3053°ECoordinates: 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 Anthracite Co. | |||||||||||||||
Services | ||||||||||||||||
|
Okp'yŏng Station is a railway station in Okp'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 Koam Branch to Koam.[1]
History
Originally called Munch'ŏn Station (Chosŏn'gŭl: 문천역; Hanja: 文川駅), the station, along with the rest of the Okp'yŏng-Kowŏn-Kŭmya section of the former Hamgyŏng Line, was opened by the Chosen Government Railway on 21 July 1916,[2] while the branch to Koam 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
- 1 2 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