Chunghwa Station

This article is about a railway station in North Korea. For the subway station in South Korea, see Junghwa Station.
Chunghwa
중화
Korean name
Hanja 中和驛
Revised Romanization Junghwa-yeok
McCune–Reischauer Chunghwa-yŏk
General information
Location Chunghwa-ŭp,
Chunghwa-gun,
P'yŏngyang
North Korea
Coordinates 38°51′26″N 125°47′18″E / 38.85722°N 125.78833°E / 38.85722; 125.78833Coordinates: 38°51′26″N 125°47′18″E / 38.85722°N 125.78833°E / 38.85722; 125.78833
Owned by Korean State Railway
History
Opened 1906
Electrified yes
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station
toward P'yŏngyang
P'yŏngbu Line

Chunghwa Station is a passenger railway station located in Chunghwa-ŭp, Chunghwa County, a suburban county of P'yŏngyang, North Korea.[1] It is on located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from Seoul to P'yŏngyang; though this line physically connects P'yŏngyang to Pusan via Torasan, in operational reality it ends at Kaesŏng due to the Korean Demilitarized Zone.[1]

References

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


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