Shenzhen West Railway Station

Shenzhen West
深圳西
China Railway

Shenzhen West Station
Location Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong
China
Coordinates 22°31′53″N 113°54′10″E / 22.531389°N 113.902778°E / 22.531389; 113.902778
Operated by Shenzhen Pingnan Railway Company, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China
Line(s) Pingnan Railway
Platforms 2

Shenzhen West Railway Station (Chinese: 深圳西站; pinyin: Shēnzhèn Xī Zhàn) is a railway station in Shenzhen on the Pingnan railway. Constructed as a freight station in 1989, Passenger station was built during 1993, opening in 1994 for passenger use. In late 2003 it was renovated and enlarged from a few hundred square metres in area to about 3,800 m2 (41,000 sq ft).Shenzhen West Railway Station, originally known as Nantou Railway Station, is located on Xuefu Lu, Nanshan District. It is about 10 kilometers from Shekou Port.

Intended to only ever be a freight handling station for the nearby Shekou Port. Shenzhen West is now handling 45% of passenger traveling by rail to and from Shenzhen. It is a station that has evolved by necessity rather than design. Due to cramped platform space at the busy Shenzhen Railway Station, many long distance services were introduced to Shenzhen West through the late 1990s and early 2000s, to cope with Shenzhen's rapidly growing migrant population. Shenzhen West Railway Station was expected to no longer operate as a passenger station once the new Shenzhen North Railway Station is finished, but it has remained open. This has been due to continued increasing public demand for cheap conventional rail services not supplied at the newer stations, built for newer, more expensive high speed trains.

Train Services

Thirteen trains arrive and depart from Shenzhen Railway Station daily. Passengers can take trains from here to 12 cities including Lanzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hefei and Jinan. Most of the train tickets from here are a little cheaper than the tickets at Shenzhen Railway Station, as the facilities and services in this station, as well as the facilities and services on the slower conventional speed trains are not as good as in Shenzhen Railway Station.

Timetable as of December 2012

Train No. From Departure Time To Arrival Time Distance km Total Travel Time
K1620 Shenzhen West
深圳西
08:50 Tianjin
天津
16:06 2,382 31:16
K132/
K133
Lanzhou
兰州
09:10 Shenzhen West
深圳西
07:23 3,100 46:13
K134/
K131
Shenzhen West
深圳西
09:50 Lanzhou
兰州
07:21 3,100 45:31
K9063/
K9066
Tongren
铜仁
10:25 Shenzhen West
深圳西
08:42 1,586 22:17
K586/
K587
Shenzhen West
深圳西
10:35 Chengdu
成都
23:33 2,356 36:58
1281 Jinan
济南
10:52 Shenzhen West
深圳西
14:05 2,090 27:13
K9064/
K9065
Shenzhen West
深圳西
11:20 Tongren
铜仁
08:52 1,586 21:32
1202/
1203
Xinyang
信阳
11:48 Shenzhen West
深圳西
09:16 1,520 21:28
1204 Shenzhen West
深圳西
13:03 Xinyang
信阳
11:40 1,520 22:37
K9062/
K9059
Huaihua
怀化
13:18 Shenzhen West
深圳西
06:18 1,257 17:00
K556 Shenzhen West
深圳西
14:07 Wuchang
武昌
09:09 1,297 19:02
K9084/
K9085
Shenzhen West
深圳西
14:30 Shaoyang
邵阳
05:46 1,050 15:16
K555 Wuchang
武昌
15:25 Shenzhen West
深圳西
10:16 1,297 18:51
1282 Shenzhen West
深圳西
15:40 Jinan
济南
19:50 2,090 28:10
K256 Shenzhen West
深圳西
16:50 Hefei
合肥
12:34 1,400 19:44
K94/K91 Taizhou
泰州
17:00 Shenzhen West
深圳西
14:56 1,686 21:56
K9058/
K9055
Huaihua
怀化
17:25 Shenzhen West
深圳西
09:42 1,257 16:17
K92/
K93
Shenzhen West
深圳西
17:45 Taizhou
泰州
15:20 1,686 21:35
K9056/
K9057
Shenzhen West
深圳西
18:15 Huaihua
怀化
09:40 1,257 15:25
K9060/
K9061
Shenzhen West
深圳西
19:08 Huaihua
怀化
11:53 1,257 16:45
K588/
K585
Chengdu
成都
19:19 Shenzhen West
深圳西
07:58 2,356 36:39
K9202 Shenzhen West
深圳西
19:30 Yueyang
岳阳
09:58 1,016 14:28
K9086/
K9083
Shaoyang
邵阳
19:50 Shenzhen West
深圳西
11:01 1,050 15:11
K255 Hefei
合肥
20:03 Shenzhen West
深圳西
15:35 1,400 19:32
K1622/
K1619
Tianjin
天津
22:10 Shenzhen West
深圳西
05:56 2,382 31:46

Shenzhen West Railway Station Transportation

In total there are 8 buses available at Shenzhen West Railway Station: Nos. 36, 58, 227, 229, 234, 353, B623 and B682.

Shenzhen Metro's Luobao Line, Liyumen Station is about 200m north of the station. It is offers connections directly between Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and Luohu Station.

Future Use

Many complaints about the poor facilities and dilapidated state of the station building have been made by the public and the operator. For example, the waiting hall lacks air conditioning. The Pingnan Railway company operating the station has applied for station renovation permits many times, but the government has vetoed plans because Shenzhen West Railway Station is not listed in the government’s passenger railway network plan. In fact, government officials ordered the closure of the station in 2010 but it has continued operating, handling over 7 million in 2011 alone, according to Pingnan Railway records.

According to the network plan adopted in 2006, Shenzhen will only have five railway stations for passengers, including Shenzhen, Shenzhen North, Shenzhen East, Futian and Longgang (Pingshan) stations. All five stations are in eastern or central parts of the city.[1]

Local support is calling for a major rail station to remain with in Nanshan, at Shenzhen West, especially with development plans to create a new Qianhai CBD area beside the harbour. It is also seen as a cheaper station for travel by many of the migrant workers living in Shenzhen, because it does not have many of the express or high speed services of other stations in Shenzhen, allowing for cheaper tickets.

It was announced in January 2013 that Shenzhen West Railway Station will get a long-awaited facelift, construction to begin in 2013 or 2014. After years of receiving criticism for its poor condition, station operator Pingnan Railway Co. said. The station will become an important terminal for the Shenzhen-Xiamen High-Speed Railway and inter-city rail between Pearl River Delta cities. The station is expected to handle 450,000 passengers during the 2013 Spring Festival holiday. Passengers have criticized its use of temporary freight sheds as waiting halls.[2]

Shenzhen West Railway Station as of July 2013. Due for major renovations, despite attempts to have station closed down.
Never intended as a major passenger station, outdoor waiting areas have had to be constructed due to the stations popularity with poorer migrant workers.
Ticket hall within Shenzhen West Railway Station
Passengers without tickets or waiting for their train time to come up have to wait in this undercover area.
Preceding station   China Railway   Following station
towards [[Template:S-line/CR left/Pinghu–Nanshan Railway Station|Template:S-line/CR left/Pinghu–Nanshan]]
Pinghu–Nanshan Railway
Mawan
towards Shekou West or Mawan
  1. http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2012-07/30/content_2143051.htm
  2. http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2013-01/30/content_2367655.htm
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