Kowon station

Kowŏn

고원
Kowŏn; 고원
Korean name
Hangul	고원역
Hanja	高原驛
Revised Romanization	Kowon-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Kowŏn-yŏk
General information
Location	Kowŏn-ŭp,; Kowŏn,; South Hamgyŏng; North Korea
Owned by	Korean State Railway
History
Opened	21 September 1916
Electrified	yes
Services

Kowŏn station is a railway station of the Korean State Railway in Kowŏn-ŭp, Kowŏn County, South Hamgyŏng, North Korea. It is the junction where the P'yŏngra Line, which connects P'yŏngyang to Rajin, meets the Kangwŏn Line running from Kowŏn to P'yŏnggang.^[1]

History

Kowŏn station, along with the rest of the Okp'yŏng-Kowŏn-Kŭmya section of the former Hamgyong Line, was opened by the Japanese on 21 September 1916.^[2]

^ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
^ Japanese Government Railways, 鉄道停車場一覧昭和12年10月1日現在(The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937), Kawaguchi Printing Company, Tokyo, 1937, pp 498–501, 504–505 (in Japanese)