Pinghu railway station

For the nearby metro station, see Pinghu station.

Pinghu railway station, formerly Ping Wu station, serves the town of Pinghu, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It is a stop on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway, and also the termini of Pinghu–Nanshan railway and Pinghu–Yantian railway.

Front view of the Pinghu station 2017

History

Pinghu Railway Exterior G 2023

The station was opened in 1911 as part of the Kowloon–Canton Railway Chinese Section, with trains running between Kowloon and Canton. The construction of the station was proposed by Hong Kong merchant Lau Chu-pak, whose family was from this town.^[1]

Since the China Railway speed-up campaign, the number of passenger trains stopping at Pinghu was decreasing, and was totally closed to passenger service since 2006 where the last stopping passenger train was cancelled.

It reopened following refurbishment on 26 September 2016.^[2] It is an intermediate station exclusively for CRH intercity trains on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway, conventional trains do not stop at this station.