Potonggang station

Pot'onggang station is a railway station in Pulg'ŭn'gori 1-dong, Pot'onggang-guyŏk, P'yŏngyang, North Korea, on the P'yŏngnam Line of the Korean State Railway.[1]

Pot'onggang

보통강
Korean name
Hangul
보통강역
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBotonggang-yeok
McCune–ReischauerPot'onggang-yŏk
General information
LocationPulg'ŭn'gori 1-dong,
Pot'onggang-guyŏk,
P'yŏngyang
North Korea
Owned byKorean State Railway
Platforms3 (1 island)
Tracks4
Connections
  •   Hyŏksin Line (Kŏn'guk station)
  • Tram interchange Pyongyang Tram Line 1
History
Opened21 March 1944
Electrifiedyes
Original companyChosen Government Railway
Services
Preceding station Korean State Railway Following station
P'yŏngyang
Terminus
 P'yŏngnam Line Ch'ilgol
towards Namp'o
Terminus P'yŏngyanghwajŏn Line P'yŏngyang Chocha'jang
towards P'yŏngch'ŏn

It is also the starting point of the P'yŏngyanghwajŏn Line to P'yŏngyang's marshalling yard, P'yŏngyang Choch'ajang; from there the line splits, with a branch going to the P'yŏngyang Thermal Power Plant, and another to P'yŏngch'ŏn station and a number of industries in the area.[2] There are sidings for loading freight from a number of freight houses on the south side of the station.

History

The station was opened together with the marshalling yard on 21 March 1944 by the Chosen Government Railway.[3]

Services

Local transit transfers can be made from Pot'onggang station to the Pyongyang Metro's Kŏn'guk station on the Hyŏksin Line, and to P'yŏngyang Tram Line 1.

References
  1. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  2. The traffic and geography in North Korea: P'yŏngnam Line(in Korean)
  3. 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Showa No. 5137, 22 March 1944.

39°01′52″N 125°42′35″E

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