Hangul 옥평역 Revised Romanization Okpyeong-yeok Owned by Korean State Railway Opened 21 July 1916 | Hanja 玉坪驛 McCune–Reischauer Okp'yŏng-yŏk Address AH6, Kangwon, North Korea Owner Korean State Railway | |
Location Okp'yŏng-dong,
Munch'ŏn-si,
Kangwŏn
North Korea Similar Ryongjiwon Station, Pyonggang Station, Wonsan Station | ||
Okp'yŏng Station is a railway station in Okp'yŏng-dong, greater Munch'ŏn city, Kangwŏn province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the Koam Branch to Koam.
History
Originally called Munch'ŏn Station (Chosŏn'gŭl: 문천역; Hanja: 文川駅), the station, along with the rest of the Okp'yŏng-Kowŏn-Kŭmya section of the former Hamgyŏng Line, was opened by the Chosen Government Railway on 21 July 1916, while the branch to Koam was opened on 17 December 1943 by the Chosen Anthracite Company as a privately owned railway. This line, like all other railway lines in North Korea, was nationalised after the Second World War, becoming part of the Korean State Railway.; the station received its current name after that.