Opa station

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

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.