Kowon station
Appearance
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Location | Kowŏn-ŭp, Kowŏn, South Hamgyŏng North Korea | |||||||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | 21 July 1916 | |||||||||||||||
Electrified | yes | |||||||||||||||
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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 July 1916.[2]