Sŏp'yŏngyang station (West P'yŏngyang station) is a
railway station
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in
Sŏsŏng-guyŏk,
P'yŏngyang
Pyongyang () is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled 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 ...
,
North Korea
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. It is on located on the
P'yŏngra and
P'yŏngŭi lines of the
Korean State Railway
The Korean State Railway is the operating arm of the Ministry of Railways of North Korea (), commonly called the State Rail () and has its headquarters at Pyongyang, P'yŏngyang. The current Minister of Railways is Chang Jun-song.
History
19 ...
.
[Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ]
Local transit connections can be made to Line 3 of the
P'yŏngyang tram system.
History
The station was originally opened by the
Chosen Government Railway
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on 16 November 1929.
[朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa Nr. 849, 31 October 1929]
References
Buildings and structures in Pyongyang
Transport in Pyongyang
Railway stations in North Korea opened in 1929
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