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{{Short description|Railway station in North Korea}}
{{Infobox station
| name          = Munch'ŏn
| native_name      = 문천
| native_name_lang = ko
| image         = 
| image_size    = 
| image_caption = 
| mlanguage = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes
  | hangul  = 문천역
  | hanja   = {{linktext|文|川|驛}}
  | mr      = Munch'ŏn-yŏk
  | rr      = Muncheon-yeok
  }}
| borough = Munch'ŏn-dong,<br/>[[Munchon|Munch'ŏn-si]],<br/>[[Kangwon Province (North Korea)|Kangwŏn]]
| country = [[North Korea]]
| platform      = 
| tracks        = 
| connections = 
| opened        = 1 August 1915
| closed        = 
| rebuilt       = 
| electrified   = yes
| owned         = [[Korean State Railway]]
| former        =
| coordinates   = {{coord|39.2346|127.3553|type:railwaystation_region:KP|display=inline,title}}
| services      = {{adjacent stations|system=KSR|line=Kangwon Line|left=Okpyong|right=Segil}}

}}

'''Munch'ŏn station''' ({{Korean|문천역|context=north}}) is a [[railway station]] in Munch'ŏn-dong, greater [[Munchon|Munch'ŏn]] city, [[Kangwon Province (North Korea)|Kangwŏn]] province, [[North Korea]], on the [[Kangwon Line|Kangwŏn Line]] of the [[Korean State Railway]].<ref name="Hayato">{{cite book| last=Kokubu| first=Hayato| title=将軍様の鉄道| publisher=Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō| isbn=978-4-10-303731-6}}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2016}} Originally called '''Munp'yŏng station''' ([[Hangul|Chosŏn'gŭl]]: 문평역; [[Hanja]]: 文坪驛), the station, along with the rest of the [[Okpyong Station|Okp'yŏng]]–[[Wonsan Station|Wŏnsan]] section of the former [[Hamgyong Line|Hamgyŏng Line]], was opened by the [[Japanese occupation of Korea|Japanese]] on 1 August 1915.<ref name="JGRStations">{{cite book| author=Japanese Government Railways| title=鉄道停車場一覧 昭和12年10月1日現在| trans-title=The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937| publisher=Kawaguchi Printing Company| location=Tokyo| year=1937| pages=498–501, 504–505| language=Japanese}}</ref> It received its current name after the establishment of the DPRK.

This station serves the Munp'yŏng [[smelter]] and the [[May 18th Works]] factory.<ref name="KangwonLine">{{cite web| work=The traffic and geography in North Korea| url=http://terms.naver.com/entry.nhn?docId=2090782&cid=44454&categoryId=44461| title=Kangwŏn Line| language=Korean}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Kangwon Line|state=collapsed}}

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