Shijiazhuang railway station

Shijiazhuang 石家庄
New Shijiazhuang railway station, which was completed in 2012.
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	石家庄站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shíjiāzhuāng zhàn
General information
Location	Zhanqian Road Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang, Hebei China
Coordinates	38°00′35.0″N 114°28′42.6″E / 38.009722°N 114.478500°E / 38.009722; 114.478500
Operated by	CR Beijing
Line(s)	Beijing–Guangzhou railway Shijiazhuang–Dezhou railway Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan railway Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway Beijing–Shijiazhuang high-speed railway Shijiazhuang–Wuhan high-speed railway
Platforms	24
Connections	Bus terminal Shijiazhuangzhan station
Other information
Station code	20372 (TMIS code) SJP (telegraph code) SJZ (Pinyin code)
Classification	Top Class station (特等站)
History
Opened	1903 (former), 2012 (current)
Closed	2012 (former)
Services
Preceding station China Railway Following station Zhengding towards Beijing West Beijing–Guangzhou railway Yuanshi towards Guangzhou Preceding station China Railway High-speed Following station Zhengding Airport towards Beijing West Beijing–Shijiazhuang high-speed railway Terminus Terminus Shijiazhuang–Wuhan high-speed railway Gaoyi West towards Wuhan
Location Shijiazhuang Location of the station Show map of Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang (Hebei) Show map of Hebei Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang (China) Show map of China

The Shijiazhuang railway station (simplified Chinese: 石家庄站; traditional Chinese: 石家莊站; pinyin: Shíjiāzhuāng zhàn) is the main railway station of Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province of China. Over the city's history, the name has been applied to several different facilities located in the main Beijing-Guangzhou railway corridor. The current Shijiazhuang railway station was opened in December 2012; it is one of the very few stations in this railway corridor that serve both the ("conventional") Beijing–Guangzhou railway and the new Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway.

Besides trains running along the two north-south Beijing-Guangzhou lines, Shijiazhuang railway station is also served by many (but not all) trains going east or west, along the Qingdao-Jinan-Dezhou-Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan corridor, which includes both a conventional railway and the Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway. However, some of the trains in the east-west corridor do not stop at Shijiazhuang railway station; instead bypassing the city center, stopping at the smaller Shijiazhuang North railway station.

In January 2013, a typical daily schedule listed 265 trains originating, terminating, or passing through Shijiazhuang railway station.^[1]

Shijiazhuang railway station is by far the busiest train station in Hebei's capital region. E.g., during the 4-day holiday period from December 31, 2012 through January 3, 2013, 198,000 passengers departed from this station, out of the 279,000 passengers that departed from all station of the Greater Shijiazhuang taken together.^[2]