Shenzhen railway station

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 Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.

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; 112 years ago (original station) 1950; 74 years ago (first station at current site) 1990; 34 years ago (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.

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]

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]

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.

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]

• 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

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