Kanpyong Station

Kanp'yŏng
간평

Kanp'yŏng station
Korean name
Hangul 간평역
Hanja 間坪驛
Revised Romanization Ganpyeong-yeok
McCune–Reischauer Kanp'yŏng-yŏk
General information
Location Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng
North Korea
Owned by Korean State Railway
History
Opened 5 January 1920
Electrified yes
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station
toward Rajin
Hambuk Line
Sinjŏn

Kanp'yŏng Station is a railway station in Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway.[1]

History

It was opened by the Tomun Railway Company on 5 January 1920, together with the rest of the Hoeryŏng-Sangsambong section of their line (Hoeryŏng-Tonggwanjin), which on 1 April 1929 was nationalised and became the West Tomun Line of the Chosen Government Railway.[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 (Japanese)

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