Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn Station
Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn 회령청년 | ||||||||||||||||
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Korean name | ||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 회령청년역 | |||||||||||||||
Hanja | 会寧青年驛 | |||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Hoeryeong Cheongnyeon-yeok | |||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
General information | ||||||||||||||||
Location |
Hoeryŏng, North Hamgyŏng North Korea | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°26′42″N 129°44′33″E / 42.4449°N 129.7425°ECoordinates: 42°26′42″N 129°44′33″E / 42.4449°N 129.7425°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
History | ||||||||||||||||
Opened | 25 November 1917 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
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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][2]
References
- 1 2 Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- 1 2 3 4 The traffic and geography in North Korea: Hambuk Line (in Korean)
- ↑ 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)