Kanggye station
Railway station in Kanggye, North Korea
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Kanggye station is a railway station in Kanggye municipal city, Chagang Province, North Korea, on the Manp'o Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the narrow-gauge Kanggye Line to Rangrim.[1]
Kanggye 강계 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Korean name | ||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 강계역 | |||||||||||||||
| Hanja | ||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Ganggye-yeok | |||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kanggye-yŏk | |||||||||||||||
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| Location | Kanggye-si, Chagang Province North Korea | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40.9705°N 126.5814°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owner | Korean State Railway | |||||||||||||||
| Lines | Manp'o Line Kanggye Line | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1 December 1937 | |||||||||||||||
Original company | Chosen Government Railway | |||||||||||||||
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History
The station was opened on 1 December 1937 by the Chosen Government Railway, along with the rest of the seventh section of the Manp'o Line from Chŏnch'ŏn (now called Hwaam) to Kanggye.
