Yesanguan railway station explained

Yesanguan
Native Name:野三关
Native Name Lang:zh-Hans
Symbol Location:cn
Symbol:rail
Symbol Location2:cn
Symbol2:crh
Address:Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi, Hubei
Country:China
Coordinates:30.665°N 110.3537°W
Operator:China Railway Corporation
Line:Yiwan Railway

Yesanguan railway station[1] (Chinese: 野三关站) is a railway station located in Yesanguan Town, Badong County, Enshi, Hubei Province, People's Republic of China, on the Yiwan Railway which is operated by China Railway Corporation.

The railway station is located near Liujiashan Village (柳家山村, Liǔjiāshān Cūn), about 10 km from the main urban area of Yesanguan Town.

Name change

During the planning stage, the station was referred to as Yesanguan railway station (Chinese: 野三关站), which was a more precise description of its location. However, the station is opened as Badong railway station (Chinese: 巴东站) in 2012, as it is the only railway station within Badong County. It is not particularly closed to Badong County's county seat (Xinling Town), being almost 100 km drive from it on winding mountain roads (S245 and G209).

In 2022, it renamed from Badong railway station to Yesanguan railway station.

Service

A number of the passenger trains running on the Yiwan Railway stop at Yesanguan railway station; this amounts several trains a day both west (to Enshi, Chongqing and Chengdu) and east (to Yichang and Wuhan), as well as some going to more remote destinations, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 回"家"别买错票 巴东两火车站有新名. 2月21日,记者从巴东县铁路建设委员会办公室获悉,现巴东站更名为野三关站. https://web.archive.org/web/20220226135342/https://www.cjbd.com.cn/cjbd68/2371375.html. 2022-02-26.
  2. Web site: 巴东列车时刻表 . Badong Train Timetable . ip138.com . zh . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150323184854/http://qq.ip138.com/train/hubei/badong.htm . 2015-03-23 .