Mangu station

Mangu station
Korean name
Hangul	망우역
Hanja	忘憂驛
Revised Romanization	Mangu-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Mangu-yŏk
General information
Location	172-3 Sangbong-dong, 11-10 Manguro 55 gil, Jungnang-gu, Seoul
Coordinates	37°35′57″N 127°05′32″E / 37.59920°N 127.09235°E / 37.59920; 127.09235Coordinates: 37°35′57″N 127°05′32″E / 37.59920°N 127.09235°E / 37.59920; 127.09235
Operated by	Korail
Line(s)	Gyeongui–Jungang Line      Gyeongchun Line
Platforms	4
Tracks	6
Construction
Structure type	Aboveground
Key dates
April 1, 1940	Gyeongui–Jungang Line opened
April 1, 1940	Gyeongchun Line opened

Mangu Station is a station on the Jungang Line, and the Gyeongchun Line since 21 December 2010. This station is probably most famous for being Seoul's main distribution center of charcoal briquettes in the 1950s and 1960s, extracted and manufactured in southern Gangwon province. These briquettes were widely used by people to weather harsh winters when Korea was a developing country and recovering from the Korean War. It is a station that still predominantly handles freight trains. It is very close to an E-Mart and Costco stores.

Although it is located close to the Sangbong Bus Terminal and Sangbong Station, it has yet to fulfill its potential as a transportation hub. With the electrification and twin-tracking of the Gyeongchun Line, this station is the newly designated western terminus station (however, the Gyeongchun Line operates about 1 km west further till its de facto terminus, Sangbong).

External links

• (in Korean) Station information from Korail

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