Yinchuan | |
Native Name: | 银川 |
Native Name Lang: | zh-Hans |
Symbol Location: | cn |
Symbol: | rail |
Symbol Location2: | cn |
Symbol2: | crh |
Address: | 710 Shanghai West Road[1] |
Borough: | Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia |
Country: | China |
Map Type: | China_Ningxia#China |
Coordinates: | 38.4916°N 106.1695°W |
Operator: | CR Lanzhou |
Line: | |
Platforms: | 10 |
Tracks: | 18 |
Connections: |
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Code: | |
Classification: | Class 1 station (一等站) |
Opened: | 1959 |
Rebuilt: | 1988, 2011 |
Passengers: | 10,007,000 |
Pass Year: | 2023 |
Yinchuan railway station is the main railway station of Yinchuan, the capital of China's Ningxia province.
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]