Ongpyong station

Railway station in North Korea

Ongp'yŏng

옥평

Korean name

Hangul

옥평역

Hanja

玉坪驛

Revised Romanization

Okpyeong-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Okp'yŏng-yŏk

General information

Location

Ongp'yŏng-dong,
Munch'ŏn-si,
Kangwŏn
North Korea

Coordinates

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Ryongdam towards Kowŏn		Kangwŏn Line		Munch'ŏn towards P'yŏnggang
Terminus		Munch'ŏn Port Line		Koam Terminus

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]

History

Originally 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

^ ^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