Sinhakpo station

Railway station in North Korea

Sinhakp'o

신학포

Korean name

Hangul

신학포역

Hanja

新鶴浦驛

Revised Romanization

Sinhakpo-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Sinhakp'o-yŏk

General information

Location

Hakp'o-ri,
Hoeryŏng,
North Hamgyŏng
North Korea

Coordinates

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Sech'ŏn towards Chungbong		Sech'ŏn Line		Terminus
Hakp'o towards Rajin		Hambuk Line		Koryŏngjin towards Ch'ŏngjin Ch'ŏngnyŏn

Sinhakp'o station is a railway station in Hakp'o-ri, Hoeryŏng county, North Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It is the starting point of the Sechŏn branch Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway to Chungbong station.^[1]

The station was opened in 1920 by the privately owned Tomun Railway, at the same time as the rest of the first stage of its mainline, from Hoeryŏng to Sangsambong.^[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

^ ^a ^b Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道. Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. p. 93. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
^ 朝鮮総督府官報昭和第669号, 1929年 3月 28日 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Shōwa No. 669, 28 March 1929 (in Japanese)
^ 南満州鉄道株式会社全路線 Archived 2013-10-21 at the Wayback Machine