Nampohang_station

Nampohang station

Nampohang station

Railway station in North Korea


Namp'ohang station is a freight-only railway station in Haean-dong, Hanggu-guyŏk, Namp'o Special City, North Korea. It is the terminus of the Namp'ohang Line from Namp'o on the P'yŏngnam Line of the Korean State Railway.[1]

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The station was opened by the Korean State Railway after the end of the Korean War[2] to serve a petroleum storage tank farm, the Namp'o Glass Bottle Factory,[3] and the Namp'o Shipyard complex.[4]


References

  1. Kokubu, Hayato (January 2007). 将軍様の鉄道 (in Japanese). Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. p. 86. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
  2. "P'yŏngnam Line". The traffic and geography in North Korea (in Korean).


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