Chondong station

Railway station in North Korea

Ch'ŏndong

천동

Korean name

Hangul

천동역

Hanja

泉洞驛

Revised Romanization

Cheondong-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Ch'ŏndong-yŏk

General information

Location

Ryongjin-dong, Kaech'ŏn-si,
South P'yŏngan Province
North Korea

Coordinates

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Kaech'ŏn towards Manp'o Ch'ŏngnyŏn		Manp'o Line		Ryongwŏlli towards Sunch'ŏn
Terminus		Taegak Line		Taegak Terminus

Ch'ŏndong station is a railway station in Ryongjin-dong, Kaech'ŏn municipal city, South P'yŏngan province, North Korea on the Manp'o Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the Taegak Branch to Taegak.^[1]^{[page needed]}

History

The station was opened on 1 December 1918 by the Mitsui Mining Railway, which became the Kaech'ŏn Light Railway in 1927, whose line from Kaech'ŏn to Ch'ŏndong was taken over by the Chosen Government Railway in 1932.^[2]

References

^ Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō) [Shogun's railway]. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
^ 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 1741, 26 October 1932 (in Japanese)