Kowon Station
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Kowŏn
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| Hangul | 고원역 | |||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 高原驛 | |||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Kowon-yeok | |||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kowŏn-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kowŏn-ŭp, Kowŏn, South Hamgyŏng North Korea |
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| Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 21 July 1916 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
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Kowŏn Station is a railway station of the Korean State Railway in Kowŏn-ŭp, Kowŏn County, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea. It is the junction where the P'yŏngra Line, which connects P'yŏngyang to Rajin, meets the Kangwŏn Line running from Kowŏn to P'yŏnggang.[1]
History
Kowŏn station, along with the rest of the Okp'yŏng-Kowŏn-Kŭmya section of the former Hamgyong Line, was opened by the Japanese on 21 July 1916.[2]
References
- ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ↑ Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧 昭和12年10月1日現在(The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, 1937, pp 498–501, 504–505 (in Japanese)
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Wŏnsanhang Branch
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