Sonchon Station

Sŏnch'ŏn 선천
File:Sonchon railway station in North Korea.jpg A view of the platform at Sŏnch'ŏn station.
Korean name
Hangul	선천역
Hanja	宣川驛
Revised Romanization	Seoncheon-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Sŏnch'ŏn-yŏk
General information
Location	Sŏnch'ŏn-ŭp, Sŏnch'ŏn, North P'yŏngan North Korea
Owned by	Korean State Railway
History
Opened	5 November 1905
Electrified	yes
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station Ch'ŏnggang toward Dandong (China) P'yŏngŭi Line Roha toward P'yŏngyang

Sŏnch'ŏn Station is a railway station in Sŏnch'ŏn-ŭp, Sŏnch'ŏn County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngŭi Line of the Korean State Railway.

History

The station was opened, along with the rest of this section of the Kyŏngŭi Line, on 5 November 1905; it was originally called Sensen Station, receiving its current name in July 1945.

After the bridge across the Yalu River was opened on 1 November 1911, connecting Sinŭiju to Dandong, China, Sŏnch'ŏn station became a stop for international trains to and from Manchuria. It is still a stopping point for international trains between P'yŏngyang and Beijing.

On 27 December 1910, Korean independence activist An Myŏng-gŭn, cousin of An Chung-gŭn (who had assassinated Ito Hirobumi the previous year), attempted to assassinate the Japanese Governor-General of Korea, Terauchi Masatake, at Sŏnch'ŏn station; this was one of the precursors to the 105-Man Incident.