Samilpo station

Samilp'o station is a railway station in Samilp'o-ri, Kosŏng county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea[1] on the Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.[2]

Samilp'o

삼일포
Korean name
Hangul
삼일포
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSamilpo-yeok
McCune–ReischauerSamilp'o-yŏk
General information
LocationSamilp'o-ri,
Kosŏng,
Kangwon Province
North Korea
Coordinates38.6702°N 128.3222°E / 38.6702; 128.3222
Owned byKorean State Railway
Line(s)Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line
History
Opened1 November 1935
Electrifiedyes
Original companyChosen Government Railway
Services
Preceding station Korean State Railway Following station
Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn
towards Anbyŏn
 Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line Kamho
towards Jejin (ROK)

History

The station was opened on 1 November 1935 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the sixth section of the original Tonghae Pukpu Line from Oegŭmgang (nowadays called Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn) to Kansŏng (now in South Korea).

References
  1. Road map of Korea, North and South, published December 2010 by Freytag and Berndt, Vienna, Austria, ISBN 978-3-7079-0974-6
  2. Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6


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