Samsu Chongnyon station
railway station in North Korea
Samsu Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in P'osŏng-rodongjagu, Samsu County, Ryanggang Province, North Korea, on the Pukbunaeryuk Line of the Korean State Railway.
History
The station, originally called Samsu station, was opened on 27 November 1987 by the Korean State Railway, along with the rest of the first eastern section of the Pukbunaeryuk Line between Huju and Hyesan. It received its current name around 2013.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Samsu Chongnyon station” is railway station in North Korea. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Samsu, Chongnyon and station, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “railway station in North Korea” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16166312. Authority coordinates are 41.399, 128.031. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 2013.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Samsu Chongnyon station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.