Iksan Railway Station
| Iksan Station | |
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 Iksan Railway Station
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| Data | |
| opening | March 6, 1912 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Iksan |
| province | Jeollabuk-do |
| Country | South Korea |
| Coordinates | 35 ° 56 '30 " N , 126 ° 56' 45" E |
| Korean spelling | |
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| Korean alphabet : | 익산역 |
| Hanja : | 益 山 驛 |
| Revised Romanization : | Iksan-yeok |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Iksan-yŏk |
The Iksan station ( 익산역 ), formerly Iri Station is a train station in the city of Iksan in the province of Jeollanam-do in the southwest of South Korea .
location
The station is at the intersection of the Jeolla , Janghang , Gunsan and Honam railway lines . Trains to and from Seoul , Daejeon , Gwangju , Mokpo , Jeonju , Suncheon and Yeosu pass it regularly. The station is connected to the network of the KTX high-speed train .
history
The station was opened on March 6, 1912. It got its current name in 1995 when the city of Iri was merged with Iksan County to form Iksan City. The current station building was opened in November 2014 .
On November 11, 1977, an explosion struck Iri station. A freight car that was supposed to transport 40 tons of dynamite from Incheon to Gwangju was parked in Iri station. According to a popular hypothesis , the car was guarded by a guard who was under the influence of alcohol. A candle he was using burned unattended. The open fire ignited the dynamite, which exploded around 9:15 p.m. The force of the explosion created a 10 m deep and 30 m wide crater.
59 people died and 1,300 were injured, 185 of them seriously. The property damage was also considerable. Most of the buildings within a 500 m radius of the detonation point were badly damaged. The Korean Minister of Transport, Choi Kyung-rok , resigned after the accident. In the film Iri by the Chinese-Korean director Zhang Lu , the focus is on the disaster of the explosion.
photos
New station building
Counter hall
Platforms
Track systems
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Emergency Management in Korea: Just Started, but Rapidly Evolving ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Federal Emergency Management Agency . Retrieved July 12, 2011.
- ↑ Sungjoo Han: South Korea 1977: Preparing for Self-Reliance . In: Asian Survey . 18, No. 1, January 1978, pp. 45-57 [53]. doi : 10.2307 / 2643183 .