Hoeryong Chongnyon station

Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn

회령청년
Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn; 회령청년
	Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station
Korean name
Hangul	회령청년역
Hanja	会寧青年驛
Revised Romanization	Hoeryeong Cheongnyeon-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn-yŏk
General information
Location	Hoeryŏng, North Hamgyŏng; North Korea
Coordinates	42.4449°N 129.7425°E
Owned by	Korean State Railway
History
Opened	25 November 1917
Electrified	yes
Previous names	Hoeryŏng
Original company	Chosen Government Railway
Services

Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway. It is also the starting point of the 10.6-km-long freight-only Hoeryŏng Colliery Line to Yusŏn-dong, Hoeryŏng-si.[1]

There are locomotive servicing facilities at this station.[2]

History

Originally called Hoeryŏng station, it was opened on 25 November 1917 together with the rest of the P'ungsan-Hoeryŏng section of the former Hamgyŏng Line.[3] It received its current name after the establishment of the DPRK.

Services

Freight

Trains carrying coal from mines on the Hoeryŏng Colliery Line to the Kim Chaek Iron & Steel Complex at Kimchaek and the Ch'ŏngjin Steel Works in Ch'ŏngjin run regularly through this station.[2]

Passenger

A number of passenger trains serve Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station, including the semi-express trains 113/114, operating between West P'yŏngyang and Unsŏng via Ch'ŏngjin and Hoeryŏng.[1] There are also long-distance trains Kalma-Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Rajin; Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Rajin; Haeju-Ch'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Unsŏng; and Tanch'ŏnCh'ŏngjin-Hoeryŏng-Tumangang. There is also a commuter service operated between Hoeryŏng and Sech'ŏn via Sinhakp'o.[2]

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: Hambuk Line (in Korean)
Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧昭和12年10月1日現在 (The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, 1937, pp 498–501, 504–505 (Japanese)

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[Hayato-1] Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6

[HambukLine-2] The traffic and geography in North Korea: Hambuk Line (in Korean)

[Stations-3] Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧昭和12年10月1日現在 (The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, 1937, pp 498–501, 504–505 (Japanese)