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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]

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

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.

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