Samilp'o station is a railway station in Samilp'o-ri, Kosŏng county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]
Samilp'o 삼일포 | |||||||||||
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Korean name | |||||||||||
Hangul | 삼일포 | ||||||||||
Hanja | |||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Samilpo-yeok | ||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Samilp'o-yŏk | ||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Samilp'o-ri, Kosŏng, Kangwon Province North Korea | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 38°40′13″N 128°19′20″E / 38.6702°N 128.3222°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 1 November 1935 | ||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
Original company | Chosen Government Railway | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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History
editThe station was opened on 1 November 1935 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the sixth section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from Oegŭmgang (nowadays called Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn) to Kansŏng (now in South Korea).
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