Nampohang station

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]

Namp'ohang

남포항
Korean name
Hangul
남포항역
Hanja
Revised RomanizationNampohang-yeok
McCune–ReischauerNamp'ohang-yŏk
General information
LocationHaean-dong,
Hanggu-guyŏk,
Namp'o-tŭkpyŏlsi
North Korea
Owned byKorean State Railway
History
Openedafter 1953
Electrifiedyes
Services
Preceding station Korean State Railway Following station
Namp'o
Terminus
 Namp'o Port Line Terminus

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).
  3. "북한 군수공장 시리즈 11: 님퍼특별시에 소재한 군수공장 및 시설. North Korean Military Factory Series 11: Military Factories and Facilities in Namp'o Special City (in Korean)". Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  4. "북한지역정보넷".

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