Shenzhen railway station

Line(s)Platforms6 (2 island platforms and 2 side platforms)Tracks8 (2 non-stop)ConnectionsConstructionStructure typeAt gradeOther informationStation codeSZQ (China Railway Telegram Code)
SZH (China Railway Pinyin Code)HistoryOpened8 October 1911; 112 years ago (1911-10-08) (original station)
1950; 74 years ago (1950) (first station at current site)
1990; 34 years ago (1990) (current station building)Services

Preceding station	China Railway			Following station
Sungang towards Guangzhou		Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway		Terminus
Sungang towards Beijing West		Beijing–Kowloon railway		Hung Hom Terminus
All trains to and from Hong Kong skip intermediate stations on the East Rail line.

Shenzhen railway station
Chinese	深圳站
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
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Luóhú Zhàn Yue: Cantonese Jyutping lo4 wu4 zaam6

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 and is the southern terminus of the Guangshen Railway.

It is one of 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 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. This station was in turn demolished in 1983 and successively rebuilt and remodelled 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. The Guangshen Railway joins the East Rail line in Hong Kong 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 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 its current long-distance trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin and Fuzhou will be relocated to Shenzhen East railway station in the future. Current high-speed trains between Shenzhen and Guangzhou/Guangzhou East railway station, however, will stay.^[4]

Gallery

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

References

External links

Media related to Shenzhen Railway Station at Wikimedia Commons

• Shenzhen Railway Station,Luohu Station Shenzhen Metro Overview & History