Opa station

Railway station in Pyongwon County, North Korea

Ŏp'a

어파

Korean name

Hangul

어파역

Hanja

漁波驛

Revised Romanization

Eopa-yeok

McCune–Reischauer

Ŏp'a-yŏk

General information

Location

Ŏp'a-rodongjagu,
P'yŏngwŏn,
South P'yŏngan
North Korea

Owned by

Korean State Railway

History

Opened

5 November 1905

Electrified

yes

Services

Preceding station	Korean State Railway			Following station
Sukch'ŏn towards Dandong (China)		P'yŏngŭi Line		Sŏgam towards P'yŏngyang

Ŏp'a station is a railway station in Ŏp'a-rodongjagu, P'yŏngwŏn County, South P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngŭi line of the Korean State Railway.^[1]

History

The station was opened on 5 November 1905 along with the rest of this section of the Kyŏngŭi Line, from which the P'yŏngŭi Line was formed after the division of Korea in 1945. A pro-independence demonstration against the Japanese occupation of Korea of about a thousand people took place in front of the station on 7 March 1919.