Yinchuan railway station

Yinchuan

银川

General information
Location710 Shanghai West Road
Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia
China
Coordinates38°29′30″N 106°10′10″E / 38.4916°N 106.1695°E / 38.4916; 106.1695
Operated by CR Lanzhou
Line(s)
Platforms10
Tracks18
Connections
  • Bus terminal
Other information
Station code
  • 14846 (TMIS code)
  • YIJ (telegraph code)
  • YCH (Pinyin code)
ClassificationClass 1 station (一等站)
History
Opened1959
Rebuilt1988, 2011
Passengers
202310,007,000
Location
Yinchuan
Location of the station
Yinchuan
Yinchuan (China)

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.