Mangu Station

Mangu Station
Korean name
Hangul	망우역
Hanja	忘憂驛
Revised Romanization	Mangu-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Mangu-yŏk
Gyeongui–Jungang Line ← Sangbong Yangwon →
Station number	K121
Address	172-3 Sangbong-dong, 11-10 Manguro 55 gil, Jungnang-gu, Seoul
Coordinates	37°35′57″N 127°05′32″E / 37.59920°N 127.09235°E / 37.59920; 127.09235Coordinates: 37°35′57″N 127°05′32″E / 37.59920°N 127.09235°E / 37.59920; 127.09235
Date opened	April 1, 1940
Type	Aboveground
Platforms/tracks	2 / 3
Operator	Korail
Gyeongchun Line ← Sangbong Sinnae →
Date opened	April 1, 1940
Type	Aboveground
Platforms/tracks	2 / 3
Operator	Korail

Mangu Station is a station on the Jungang Line, and Gyeongchun Line since 21 December 2010. This station is probably most famous for being Seoul's main distribution center of charcoal briquettes in the 1950s and 1960s, extracted and manufactured in southern Gangwon province. These briquettes were widely used by people to weather harsh winters when Korea was a developing country and recovering from the Korean War. It is a station that still predominantly handles freight trains. It is very close to an E-Mart and Costco stores.

Although it is located close to the Sangbong Bus Terminal and Sangbong Station, it has yet to fulfill its potential as a transportation hub. With the electrification and twin-tracking of Gyeongchun Line, this station is the newly designated western terminus station (however, Gyeongchun Line operates about 1 km west further till its de facto terminus, Sangbong).

External links

• (Korean) Station information from Korail

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