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Kalma station () is a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...
in Kalma-dong, an industrial neighbourhood in the eastern part of
Wŏnsan Wŏnsan (), previously known as Wŏnsanjin (), Port Lazarev, and Genzan (), is a port city and naval base located in Kangwŏn Province, North Korea, along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, on the Sea of Japan and the provincial capital. ...
city, Kangwŏn province,
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
, on the Kangwŏn Line of the
Korean State Railway The Korean State Railway (), commonly called the State Rail () is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea and has its headquarters at P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun Song. History 1945–195 ...
. It is also the start of the Wŏnsanhang Line to Wŏnsan Port.Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), p.90 Kalma station handles freight traffic destined for and shipped from Wŏnsan city,The traffic and geography in North Korea
Kangwŏn Line
(in Korean)
and serves several large industries, including the 4 June Rolling Stock Works, which is one of the DPRK's largest railway equipment factories. The station, along with the rest of the former Kyŏngwŏn Line, was opened by the
Chosen Government Railway Chosen or The Chosen may refer to: The chosen ones *Chosen people, people who believe they have been chosen by a higher power to do a certain thing including **Jews as the chosen people Books *The Chosen (Potok novel), ''The Chosen'' (Potok novel ...
on 16 August 1914.


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{{Wonsanhang Line Railway stations in North Korea