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Railway station in Yinchuan, China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yinchuan railway station (simplified Chinese: 银川站; traditional Chinese: 銀川站; pinyin: Yínchuān Zhàn) is the main railway station of Yinchuan, the capital of China's Ningxia province.
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Location | 710 Shanghai West Road[1] Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia China | ||||
Coordinates | 38.4916°N 106.1695°E | ||||
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Platforms | 10 | ||||
Tracks | 18 | ||||
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Classification | Class 1 station (一等站) | ||||
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Opened | 1959 | ||||
Rebuilt | 1988, 2011 | ||||
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2023 | 10,007,000 | ||||
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The first train arrived at Yinchuan station, then only a stop on the Baotou–Lanzhou railway, on August 1, 1958. The first station building was opened in 1959.[4][5] In 1988, a new station building was inaugurated, which was replaced in 2011 by a building on the opposite (eastern) side of the platforms.[6]
Since the opening of the Yinchuan–Zhongwei high-speed railway in 2019, the station is served by both conventional and high-speed train services.[7] In 2023, the station exceeded 10 million annual passengers for the first time, of whom 7.6 million travelled on high-speed trains. The average daily number of passenger totaled to 33,300 that year.[8]
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