Tasadohang station (Tasado Port station) is a freight-only railway station in Tasa Workers' District, Yŏmju County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea, the terminus of the Tasado Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] The line continues beyond the station to siding at Kwakkot Ch'oe Harbour to serve the base of the Korean People's Navy Unit 164 located there.
Tasadohang 다사도항 | |||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||
| Hangul | 다사도항역 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | |||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Dasadohang-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Tasadohang-yŏk | ||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Tasa-rodongjagu, Yŏmju-gun, North P'yŏngan North Korea | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 + 1 siding | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 31 October 1939 | ||||||||||
| Original company | Tasado Railway | ||||||||||
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History
editThe station was opened on 31 October 1939 by the Tasado Railway, along with the rest of the Tasado Line from Sinŭiju to here.[2]
References
edit- ^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ^ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 3841, 8 November 1939