Chongsong station
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Chongsŏng 종성 | ||||||||||||||||
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Location | Chongsŏng-rodongjagu, Onsŏng, North Hamgyŏng North Korea | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°45′45″N 129°47′24″E / 42.7626°N 129.7901°E | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | 5 January 1920 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
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Chongsŏng Station is a railway station in Chongsŏng-rodongjagu, Onsŏng County, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the 15.6 km-long branchline to Tongp'o.[1][page needed]
History
It was opened by the Tomun Railway Company in 1922, together with the rest of the Sangsambong–Chongsŏng section of their line (Hoeryŏng–Tonggwanjin),[2] which on 1 April 1929 was nationalised and became the West Tomun Line of the Chosen Government Railway, 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]
References
- ^ a b Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道. Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
- ^ 조선총독부관보 昭和 제669호, 1929년 3월 28일자, 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
- ^ 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線