Ryanggang Taepyong station
Railway station in North Korea
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Ryanggang Taep'yŏng station, originally P'yŏngmul station, is a former railway station in Taep'yŏng-rodongjagu, Poch'ŏn county, Ryanggang province, North Korea, the terminus of the narrow-gauge Poch'ŏn line.[1]
Ryanggang Taep'yŏng 량강대평 | |||||||||||
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| Hangul | 량강대평역 | ||||||||||
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| Revised Romanization | Yanggang Daepyeong-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Ryanggang Taep'yŏng-yŏk | ||||||||||
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| Location | Taep'yŏng-rodongjagu, Poch'ŏn-gun, Ryanggang North Korea | ||||||||||
| Owner | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
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History
The station, along with the rest of the Poch'ŏn Line, was opened by the Korean State Railway sometime after 1948. Extensive flooding in 1994 led to the closure of both the Poch'ŏn and Samjiyŏn lines, and the station has since been out of use.[2]
