Hoeryong Chongnyon station explained

Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn
Native Name:회령청년
Native Name Lang:ko
Mlanguage:
Child:yes
Hangul:회령청년역
Mr:Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn-yŏk
Rr:Hoeryeong Cheongnyeon-yeok
Borough:Hoeryŏng, North Hamgyŏng
Country:North Korea
Opened:25 November 1917
Electrified:yes
Owned:Korean State Railway
Former:Hoeryŏng
Original:Chosen Government Railway
Coordinates:42.4449°N 129.7425°W

Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway. It is also the starting point of the 10.6-km-long freight-only Hoeryŏng Colliery Line to Yusŏn-dong, Hoeryŏng-si.[1]

There are locomotive servicing facilities at this station.[2]

History

Originally called Hoeryŏng station, it was opened on 25 November 1917 together with the rest of the P'ungsan-Hoeryŏng section of the former Hamgyŏng Line.[3] It received its current name after the establishment of the DPRK.

Services

Freight

Trains carrying coal from mines on the Hoeryŏng Colliery Line to the Kim Chaek Iron & Steel Complex at Kimchaek and the Ch'ŏngjin Steel Works in Ch'ŏngjin run regularly through this station.[2]

Passenger

A number of passenger trains serve Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station, including the semi-express trains 113/114, operating between West P'yŏngyang and Unsŏng via Ch'ŏngjin and Hoeryŏng.[1] There are also long-distance trains Kalma-Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Rajin; Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Rajin; Haeju-Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Unsŏng; and Tanch'ŏnCh'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Tumangang. There is also a commuter service operated between Hoeryŏng and Sech'ŏn via Sinhakp'o.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō),
  2. The traffic and geography in North Korea: Hambuk Line (in Korean)
  3. [Japanese Government Railways]