Tongpo station explained

Tongp'o
Native Name:동포
Native Name Lang:ko
Mlanguage:
Child:yes
Hangul:동포역
Mr:Tongp'o-yŏk
Rr:Dongpo-yeok
Borough:Tongp'o-rodongjagu,
Hoeryŏng,
North Hamgyŏng
Country:North Korea
Line:Hambuk Line
Opened:1922
Electrified:no
Owned:Korean State Railway
Original:Tomun Railway

Tongp'o station is a railway station in Sech'ŏn-dong, Hoeryŏng county, North Hamgyŏng province, North Korea on the Sech'ŏn branch of the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway.[1]

The station was opened in 1922 by the privately owned Tomun Railway Company, at the same time as the rest of the second stage of its mainline, from Sangsambong to Chongsŏng Station.[2] It was subsequently nationalised by the Chosen Government Railway in 1929, and from 1934 to 1940 it was managed by the South Manchuria Railway.[3] Finally, after the partition of Korea it became part of the Korean State Railway.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道. January 2007. 93. Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. 978-4-10-303731-6.
  2. 朝鮮総督府官報 昭和 第669号, 1929年 3月 28日 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
  3. http://homepage1.nifty.com/kitabatake/mansyu3.5.html 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線