Yinchuan railway station

Yinchuan 银川
General information
Location	710 Shanghai West Road[1] Jinfeng District, Yinchuan, Ningxia China
Coordinates	38°29′30″N 106°10′10″E / 38.4916°N 106.1695°E / 38.4916; 106.1695
Operated by	CR Lanzhou
Line(s)	China Railway: Baotou–Lanzhou Railway Taiyuan–Zhongwei–Yinchuan Railway China Railway High-speed: Yinchuan–Xi'an high-speed railway Yinchuan–Lanzhou high-speed railway Baotou–Yinchuan high-speed railway (under construction)
Platforms	10
Tracks	18
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Station code	14846 (TMIS code)[2] YIJ (telegraph code)[3] YCH (Pinyin code)
Classification	Class 1 station (一等站)
History
Opened	1959
Rebuilt	1988, 2011
Passengers
2023	10,007,000
Location Yinchuan Location of the station Show map of Ningxia Yinchuan Yinchuan (China) Show map of 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.^[4][5] In 1988, a new station building was inaugurated, which was replaced in 2011 by a building on the opposite (eastern) side of the platforms.^[6]

Since the opening of the Yinchuan–Zhongwei high-speed railway in 2019, the station is served by both conventional and high-speed train services.^[7] 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.^[8]