Sŏp'o station is a
railway station in Sŏp'o-dong,
Hyongjesan-guyŏk,
P'yŏngyang
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 population ...
,
North Korea. It is on located on the
P'yŏngra and
P'yŏngŭi lines of the
Korean State Railway.
[Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ]
History
The station was opened on 1 April 1908, along with the rest of the former
Kyŏngŭi Line, from which the P'yŏngŭi line was formed after the division of Korea.
Operations
There is an international cargo terminal at the station, which handles international freight traffic between P'yŏngyang and
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. All passenger trains heading to and from P'yŏngyang on the P'yŏngra and P'yŏngŭi lines pass through this station.
References
Railway stations in North Korea
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