Chontan station

Railway station in North Korea

Ch'ŏnt'an

전탄

Korean name

Hangul

전탄역

Hanja

前灘驛

Revised Romanization

Cheontan-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Ch'ŏnt'an-yŏk

General information

Location

Ch'ŏnt'al-li,
Kowŏn,
South Hamgyŏng
North Korea

Coordinates

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Kowŏn Terminus		Kangwŏn Line		Ryongdam towards P'yŏnggang

Ch'ŏnt'an station is a railway station in Ch'ŏnt'al-li, Kowŏn County, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway.^[1] The 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]

References

^ 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)