Shenzhen railway station

Shenzhen railway station
Shenzhen railway station
Chinese	深圳站
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shēnzhèn Zhàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	sam1 zan3 zaam6
Luohu railway station
Simplified Chinese	罗湖站
Traditional Chinese	羅湖站
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Luóhú Zhàn
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	lo4 wu4 zaam6

Shenzhen

深圳
Shenzhen; 深圳 ;
General information
Location	Jianshe Road, Nanhu Subdistrict, Luohu District, Shenzhen, Guangdong; China
Coordinates	22°32′04″N 114°06′44″E / 22.5344°N 114.1121°E
Operated by	Guangshen Railway Company; CR Guangzhou;
Line(s)	Guangshen Railway; Jingjiu Railway;
Platforms	6 (2 island platforms and 2 side platforms)
Tracks	8 (2 non-stop)
Connections	Line 1 (Luohu); Line 9 (Renmin South); East Rail line (Lo Wu); Bus terminal;
Construction
Structure type	At grade
Other information
Station code	SZQ (China Railway Telegram Code); SZH (China Railway Pinyin Code)
History
Opened	8 October 1911; 113 years ago (original station); 1950; 74 years ago (first station at current site); 1990; 34 years ago (current station building)
Services
	All trains to and from Hong Kong skip intermediate stations on the East Rail line.

Shenzhen railway station (Chinese: 深圳站; pinyin: Shēnzhèn zhàn, formerly Shum Chun station), also unofficially known as Luohu railway station (Chinese: 罗湖站; pinyin: Luóhú zhàn), is located across from Luohu Commercial City in Nanhu Subdistrict, Luohu District of Shenzhen, Guangdong. It is the southern terminus of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.

It is one of the two stations with high-speed rail service in Luohu District. The other station is Luohu North railway station, which is currently under construction on Shenzhen–Shanwei high-speed railway.^[1]

History

Shenzhen railway station was first opened as Shum Chun, as the last stop of the Chinese section of the Kowloon–Canton Railway on 8 October 1911. This station is situated in Dongmen, in what was then the market town of Shenzhen/Shum Chun. It was relocated near its current location on the China-Hong Kong border, opposite Lo Wu station, in 1950. However, the station was in turn demolished in 1983 but successively rebuilt and remodeled multiple times to its current scale.^[2]^[3]

Location

The station is located just north of the boundary with Hong Kong in a north–south alignment. Moreover, the Guangshen Railway joins the East Rail line just south of the station, where Lo Wu station on the Hong Kong MTR is located. The Shenzhen Metro system has Luohu station nearby on a lower level and connected with Shenzhen railway station.

Layout

West
	Platform 4 (side platform)
	Long Distance Trains (12)
	Long Distance Trains (10)
	Platform 3 (island platform)
	Long Distance Trains (8)
	←to Hong Kong——Through Trains (6)——to Guangzhou South→
	Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity Services
	Platform 2 (island platform)
	Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity Services
	Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity Services
	Guangzhou-Shenzhen Intercity Services
East	Platform 1 (side platform)

Train services

Shenzhen railway station will be the main hub for inter-city trains in Guangdong Province, for example, and some of its current long-distance trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin and Fuzhou will be relocated to Shenzhen East railway station in the future. The higher-speed trains (up to 200 km/hour speed) between Shenzhen and Guangzhou/Guangzhou East railway station, however, will stay.^[4]

Gallery

Opening of the original Shenzhen station, 1911
Sign directing passengers to in-station services, local transportation, and to Hong Kong
Trains in station area CRH1A
Shenzhen railway station area map
Shenzhen railway station Exit
Taxi and bus terminal
Shenzhen railway station and Shangri-La Hotel in background
Waiting room for Guangzhou-Shenzhen intercity trains
Through train tracks to Hong Kong
Platform 1
Platforms 2 and 3
C8004, a Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway intercity train, departs from platform 1