Potonggang Station
Pot'onggang 보통강 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 보통강역 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 普通江驛 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Botonggang-yeok | |||||||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Pot'onggang-yŏk | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Location |
Pot'onggang-guyŏk, P'yŏngyang North Korea | |||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | Metro: Hyŏksin Line | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 21 March 1944 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Original company | Chosen Government Railway | |||||||||||||||||||
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Pot'onggang Station is a railway station in Pot'onggang-guyŏk, P'yŏngyang, North Korea, on the P'yŏngnam Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] It is also the starting point of branchlines to P'yŏngyang's marshalling yard, P'yŏngyang Choch'ajang, and to P'yŏngch'ŏn Station that serves the P'yŏngyang Thermal Power Plant.[2]
Local transit transfers can be made from Pot'onggang station to the P'yŏngyang Metro's Kon'guk station on the Hyŏksin Line.
The station was opened on 21 March 1944 by the Chosen Government Railway.[3]
References
- ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ↑ The traffic and geography in North Korea: P'yŏngnam Line(in Korean)
- ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Showa No. 5137, 22 March 1944
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Coordinates: 39°01′52″N 125°42′35″E / 39.03111°N 125.70972°E
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