Kosŏng station is a railway station in Kosŏng-ŭp, Kosŏng county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]
Kosŏng 고성 | |||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||
| Hangul | 고성역 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | |||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Goseong-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kosŏng-yŏk | ||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Kosŏng-ŭp, Kosŏng, Kangwŏn Province North Korea | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°44′39″N 128°10′37″E / 38.7442°N 128.1770°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 1 August 1932 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Changjŏn | ||||||||||
| Original company | Chosen Government Railway | ||||||||||
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History
editThe station, originally called Changjŏn station, was opened on 1 August 1932 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the fourth section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from Tup'o to here.
References
edit- ^ Road map of Korea, North and South, published December 2010 by Freytag and Berndt, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-3-7079-0974-6
- ^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
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