Pyongnam Onchon station explained

P'yŏngnam Onch'ŏn
Native Name:평남온천
Native Name Lang:ko
Mlanguage:
Child:yes
Hangul:평남온천역
Mr:P'yŏngnam Onch'ŏn-yŏk
Rr:Pyeongnam Oncheon-yeok
Borough:Onch'ŏn-ŭp,
Onch'ŏn-gun,
Namp'o-tŭkpyŏlsi
Country:North Korea
Platform:1
Tracks:3
Opened:July 1938
Electrified:no
Owned:Korean State Railway
Original:Chosen P'yŏngan Railway
Coordinates:38.8815°N 125.224°W

P'yŏngnam Onch'ŏn station is a railway station in Onch'ŏn-ŭp, Onch'ŏn county, Namp'o Special City, North Korea, the northern terminus of the P'yŏngnam Line of the Korean State Railway; it was also the southern terminus of the now-closed Namdong Line.[1]

History

The station was opened by the Chosen P'yŏngan Railway (Japanese: 朝鮮平安鉄道, Chōsen Heian Tetsudō; Korean: 조선평안철도, Chosŏn P'yŏngan Ch'ŏldo) in July 1938 as part of a 34.7km (21.6miles)-long line from Namp'o.[2]

Services

Regional passenger trains operate between this station and Tŏkch'ŏn on the P'yŏngdŏk Line (trains 226-227/228-229) and Pot'onggang on the P'yŏngnam Line (trains 225/230).[1] This station also handles local freight traffic – daily-use commodities inbound, and salt and agricultural products outbound – and serves the Onch'ŏn air base of the Korean People's Army Air Force via a short spur.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道. 86. Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. 978-4-10-303731-6. ja.
  2. 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Gazette of the Governor-General of Korea), Showa No. 3447, 14 July 1938
  3. The traffic and geography in North Korea: P'yŏngnam Line(in Korean)