Ryŏmsŏng station is a railway station in Ryŏmsŏng-ri, Kosŏng county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]
Ryŏmsŏng 렴성 | |||||||||||
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Korean name | |||||||||||
Hangul | 렴성역 | ||||||||||
Hanja | |||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Yeomseong-yeok | ||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Ryŏmsŏng-yŏk | ||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Ryŏmsŏng-ri, Kosŏng, Kangwŏn Province North Korea | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°51′22″N 127°59′40″E / 38.8561°N 127.9944°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 21 May 1932 | ||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
Original company | Chosen Government Railway | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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History
editThe station was opened on 21 May 1932 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the third section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from T'ongch'ŏn (nowadays Tonghae) to Tup'o.
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