Sangwangsimni station

Sangwangsimni Station is a station on Seoul Subway Line 2 in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, South Korea.[1][2]

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Sangwangsimni Station
Station Platform
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationSang-wangsimni-yeok
McCune–ReischauerSangwangsimni-yŏk
General information
Location374 Wangsimni-ro jiha, 946-14 Hawangsimni-dong,
Seongdong-gu, Seoul[1][2]
Operated bySeoul Metro
Line(s)     Line 2
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
History
OpenedSeptember 16, 1983[1]
Traffic
Passengers(Daily) Based on Jan-Dec of 2012.
Line 2: 18,887[3]
Services
Preceding station   Seoul Metro   Following station
anticlockwise / outer
Line 2
clockwise / inner

Station layout
G Street level Exit
L1
Concourse		 Lobby Customer Service, Shops, Vending machines, ATMs
L2
Platform level		 Side platform, doors will open on the right
Northbound ← Line 2 toward City Hall (Sindang)
Southbound → Line 2 toward Chungjeongno (Wangsimni) →
Side platform, doors will open on the right

Accident

On May 2, 2014 KST, two subway cars collided at Sangwangsimni Station, causing 238 injuries. [4][5][6]

References
  1. "상왕십리역" (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  2. "상왕십리역" (in Korean). 서울지명사전. Retrieved 2016-01-27.
  3. Monthly Number of Passengers between Subway Stations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Korea Transportation Database, 2013. Retrieved 2013-10-15.
  4. Rose Kim and Seyoon Kim (2 May 2014). "Collision on Seoul's Busiest Subway Line Injures 172". Bloomberg. Retrieved 3 May 2014.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  5. "Over 200 injured as two trains collide in Seoul subway". RT. May 2, 2014. Retrieved May 3, 2014.
  6. Kim, Jack; Yang, Kahyun (May 2, 2014). "Subway trains crash in South Korean capital, 200 people hurt". Reuters. Retrieved May 2, 2014.


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