Nanjing railway station
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Location | Longpan Lu, Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 32°05′14″N 118°47′51″E / 32.087265°N 118.797466°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | Shanghai Railway Bureau, China Railway Corporation | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Classification | 1st class station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nanjing railway station (Chinese: 南京站; pinyin: Nánjīng Zhàn) is a major railway station of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province. It is located in the northern part of Nanjing's urban core (just a short walk from the city wall), near Xuanwu Lake.[1]
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Until 2010, this was the main railway station of Nanjing, with the great majority of all trains serving Nanjing using this station. Only a small number of trains, going to the destinations to the southwest of Nanjing, pass through the (old) Nanjing South railway station, which is located south of Nanjing's walled city; service to Nanjing West railway station has been suspended.
After the opening of new Nanjing South railway station in the southern part of greater Nanjing in mid-2010, many of the high-speed trains serving Nanjing have been re-routed to that new station. However, Nanjing station has frequent high-speed service to Shanghai and Shanghai Hongqiao, some services also stopping at Zhenjiang, Changzhou and Suzhou. Some overnight D trains continue on north towards Beijing South railway station, Tianjin West railway station, or Xi'an North railway station.
Nanjing railway station is served by a station of the same name on Line 1 and Line 3 of Nanjing Metro. It is also the terminal for many of the city bus lines.
History[]
The station opened in September 1968,[2] shortly before the opening of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. The connection with Line 1 of the Nanjing Metro began operations on 3 September 2005[3] as part of the line's Phase I from Maigaoqiao to Andemen.[a] The interchange with Nanjing Metro Line 3 opened on 1 April 2015 with the opening of that line.[5]
On 30 September 2016 the metro station served a peak volume of 99,800 passengers.[6]
In February 2019 the Nanjing railway station was the scene of a viral video of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un smoking a cigarette during a break on his way to the Hanoi Summit with then American president Donald J. Trump. [7]
See also[]
- Zhonghuamen railway station (Nanjing)
- Nanjing South railway station
- Nanjing West railway station
- Nanjing North railway station
References[]
- ^ "Nanjing Guide - Things to do in Nanjing - eChinacities.com". echinacities.com. Retrieved 30 April 2015.
- ^ 南京火车站/介绍 (in Simplified Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 May 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ 大事记. Nanjing Metro. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
9月3日 南京地铁一号线一期工程开通试运营
- ^ 南京地铁二号线载人模拟运营 [Nanjing Metro Line 2 Undergoes Trial Runs]. Yantse Evening News (in Chinese). 23 May 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
- ^ "Nanjing metro Line 3 opens". Railway Gazette International. 2 April 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- ^ 南京地铁国庆前一天客流299.62万乘次创历史新高. Yangtse Evening News (in Chinese). 1 October 2016. Archived from the original on 3 February 2017. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Stops For A Smoke Break On Way To Hanoi Summit | NBC News, retrieved 30 June 2021
External links[]
Media related to Nanjing railway station at Wikimedia Commons
- Stations on the Beijing–Shanghai Railway
- Stations on the Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway
- Railway stations in Nanjing
- Nanjing Metro stations
- Stations on the Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway
- Railway stations in China opened in 1968
- Jiangsu geography stubs
- Jiangsu railway station stubs