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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][page needed] 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°24′40″N 127°17′21″E / 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
edit- ^ 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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