Chontan Station

Ch'ŏnt'an
전탄
Korean name
Hangul 전탄역
Hanja 前灘驛
Revised Romanization Cheontan-yeok
McCune–Reischauer Ch'ŏnt'an-yŏk
General information
Location Ch'ŏnt'al-li,
Kowŏn,
South Hamgyŏng
North Korea
Coordinates 39°23′01″N 127°14′46″E / 39.3837°N 127.2460°E / 39.3837; 127.2460Coordinates: 39°23′01″N 127°14′46″E / 39.3837°N 127.2460°E / 39.3837; 127.2460
Owned by Korean State Railway
History
Opened 21 July 1916
Electrified yes
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station
Terminus
Kangwŏn Line
toward P'yŏnggang

Ch'ŏnt'an Station is a railway station in Ch'ŏnt'al-li, Kowŏn County, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] The 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

  1. ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  2. ↑ 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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