Yinchuan railway station
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| Location | 710 Shanghai West Road Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia China | ||||
| Coordinates | 38°29′30″N 106°10′10″E / 38.4916°N 106.1695°E | ||||
| Operated by | CR Lanzhou | ||||
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| Platforms | 10 | ||||
| Tracks | 18 | ||||
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| Classification | Class 1 station (一等站) | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1959 | ||||
| Rebuilt | 1988, 2011 | ||||
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| 2023 | 10,007,000 | ||||
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Yinchuan railway station (simplified Chinese: 银川站; traditional Chinese: 銀川站; pinyin: Yínchuān Zhàn) 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. In 1988, a new station building was inaugurated, which was replaced in 2011 by a building on the opposite (eastern) side of the platforms.
Since the opening of the Yinchuan–Zhongwei high-speed railway in 2019, the station is served by both conventional and high-speed train services. 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.