Dorasan Station

Dorasan Station

Coordinates: 37°53′55″N 126°42′36″E / 37.8987147°N 126.7100751°E / 37.8987147; 126.7100751

The entrance to Dorasan Station
Pyeongyang sign at Dorasan Station

Dorasan Station is a railroad station situated on the Gyeongui Line, which once connected North and South Korea and has now been restored. For several years the northernmost stop on the line was Dorasan Station, which is served by Tonggeun commuter trains.

On December 11, 2007, freight trains began traveling north past Dorasan Station into North Korea, taking materials to the Kaesong Industrial Region, and returning with finished goods. It was scheduled to make one 16-kilometer (9.9 mi) trip every weekday.[1]

However, on December 1, 2008, the North Korean government closed the border crossing, after accusing South Korea of a confrontational policy.[2] This coincided with the South Korean legislative election, 2008, and a change to a more conservative government.

Plans to begin regular passenger service across the Imjin River to North Korea have yet to be finalized. However, a tourist visit in January 2010 showed clearly that the station was completely shut to all train travel, and that the station was only open for tourists.[3]

Gallery

  • Outside Dorasan Station

  • Dorasan Station marker

  • A view from the parking lot

  • Inside Dorasan Station

  • gate to platform

  • "Not the last station from the South, But the first station toward the North."

  • Art at Dorasan Station commemorating the meeting of June 15 2000

  • U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korea President Kim Dae Jung

  • Pyeongyang sign in Dorasan Station

See also

References

  1. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_as/koreas_trains
  2. ^ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-192099890.html
  3. ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamescridland/4256352194/in/set-72157623034027367/
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