Tongp'o Station

Tongp'o 동포
Korean name
Hangul	동포역
Hanja	東浦驛
Revised Romanization	Dongpo-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Tongp'o-yŏk
General information
Location	Tongp'o-rodongjagu, Hoeryŏng, North Hamgyŏng North Korea
Owned by	Korean State Railway
Line(s)	Hambuk Line
History
Opened	1922
Electrified	yes
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station Chongsŏng toward Chongson Tongp'o Branch Terminus

Tongp'o Station is a railway station in Sech'ŏn-dong, Hoeryŏng county, North Hamgyŏng province, North Korea on the Sech'ŏn branch of the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway.^[1]

The station was opened in 1922 by the privately owned Tomun Railway Company, at the same time as the rest of the second stage of its mainline, from Sangsambong to Chongsŏng Station.^[2] It was subsequently nationalised by the Chosen Government Railway in 1929, and from 1934 to 1940 it was managed by the South Manchuria Railway.^[3] Finally, after the partition of Korea it became part of the Korean State Railway.^[1]

References

1. Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道. Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
2. 조선총독부관보 昭和 제669호, 1929년 3월 28일자, 朝鮮総督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
3. 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線