Poch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn station (former Karim station) is a railway station in Kasal-li, Poch'ŏn county, Ryanggang province, North Korea, on the Samjiyŏn of the Korean State Railway. It is also the starting point of the narrow-gauge Poch'ŏn line.[1]
Poch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn 보천청년 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Korean name | ||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 보천청년역 | |||||||||||||||
| Hanja | ||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Garim-yeok | |||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Karim-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kasal-li, Poch'ŏn-gun, Ryanggang North Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1948 | |||||||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
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History edit
The station, along with the rest of the Samjiyŏn Line, was opened by the Korean State Railway in 1948.[2] Extensive flooding in 1994 led to the closure of the line, and the station has since been out of use.[3]
References edit
- ^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
- ^ 북한지역정보넷 - 삼지연선
- ^ 北 자재난 심각…2012년 국책사업 줄줄이 ‘중단’, 《데일리NK》, 2009.10.09.
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