Tongchon station

Railway station in North Korea
T'ongch'ŏn

동천
Korean name
Hangul
통천역
Hanja
通川驛
Revised RomanizationTongcheon-yeok
McCune–ReischauerT'ongch'ŏn-yŏk
General information
LocationT'ongch'ŏn-ŭp,
T'ongch'ŏn,
Kangwon Province
North Korea
Coordinates
Preceding station Korean State Railway Following station
Sijungho
towards Anbyŏn
Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line Tonghae
towards Jejin (ROK)

T'ongch'ŏn station is a railway station in T'ongch'ŏn-ŭp, T'ongch'ŏn county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]

History

The station, originally called Kojŏ station, was opened on 21 July 1931 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the second section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from Hŭpkok (nowadays called Myŏnggo) to the original T'ongch'ŏn station (nowadays called Tonghae).

References

  1. ^ Road map of Korea, North and South, published December 2010 by Freytag and Berndt, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-3-7079-0974-6
  2. ^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6


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