Nanjing South railway station

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Nanjing South 南京南
General information
Other names	Nanjing South
Location	Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu China
Coordinates	31°58′08″N 118°47′55″E / 31.968789°N 118.798537°E / 31.968789; 118.798537
Operated by	CR Shanghai Nanjing Metro
Line(s)	CRH: Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway Hefei–Nanjing railway Nanjing–Hangzhou high-speed railway Nanjing–Anqing intercity railway South Jiangsu Riverside high-speed railway Nanjing Metro   Line 1   Line 3   Line S1   Line S3
Other information
Station code	16804 (TMIS code) NKH (telegram code) NJN (pinyin code) 112 (Nanjing Metro Line 1) 322 (Nanjing Metro Line 3)
Classification	Top Class station
History
Opened	28 June 2011 (2011-06-28) (railway; Nanjing Metro Line 1) 1 July 2014 (2014-07-01) (Nanjing Metro Line S1) 1 April 2015 (2015-04-01) (Nanjing Metro Line 3) 6 December 2017 (2017-12-06) (Nanjing Metro Line S3)

Nanjingnan (Nanjing South) railway station (Chinese: 南京南站; pinyin: Nánjīngnán Zhàn) is a high-speed railway station in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, serving the Beijing–Shanghai (Jinghu) high-speed railway, Shanghai–Nanjing (Huning) intercity railway, Nanjing–Hangzhou (Ninghang) high-speed railway, Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu (Huhanrong) high-speed railway and the South Jiangsu Riverside high-speed railway. The new Nanjing South railway station is located a few kilometers south of downtown Nanjing in Yuhuatai District, and has a connection with the Nanjing Metro, served by Lines 1, 3, S1 and S3. Construction on the station began on 10 January 2008,^[1] and the station opened on 28 June 2011,^[2] two days before the opening of the Beijing–Shanghai high-speed railway.

It is one of the world's largest railway stations in terms of GFA (Gross Floor Area), at 458,000 m² (4,930,000 sq ft),^[2] nearly six times larger than the pre-existing Nanjing railway station to the north, with five floors allowing for a zero-distance transfer to Nanjing Metro, Nanjing municipal buses and Airport bus lines.^[2]

Before the construction of the (New) Nanjing South Railway Station, the name "Nanjing South Railway Station" was applied to another station: a fairly minor rail station located just outside the Gate of China (Zhonghuamen) of Nanjing's walled city, much closer to the city centre than the new Nanjing South Railway Station. To avoid confusion, the (old) South Railway Station has now been renamed as the Zhonghuamen railway station.