Shenzhen West Railway Station

Shenzhen West 深圳西
Shenzhen West Station
Location	Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong China
Coordinates	22°31′53″N 113°54′10″E / 22.531389°N 113.902778°E
Operated by	Shenzhen Pingnan Railway Company, Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China
Line(s)	Pingnan Railway
Platforms	2

Shenzhen West Railway Station (Chinese: 深圳西站; pinyin: Shēnzhèn Xī Zhàn) is a railway station in Shenzhen on the Pingnan railway. Constructed as a freight station in 1989, Passenger station was built during 1993, opening in 1994 for passenger use. In late 2003 it was renovated and enlarged from a few hundred square metres in area to about 3,800 m² (41,000 sq ft).Shenzhen West Railway Station, originally known as Nantou Railway Station, is located on Xuefu Lu, Nanshan District. It is about 10 kilometers from Shekou Port.

Intended to only ever be a freight handling station for the nearby Shekou Port. Shenzhen West is now handling 45% of passenger traveling by rail to and from Shenzhen. It is a station that has evolved by necessity rather than design. Due to cramped platform space at the busy Shenzhen Railway Station, many long distance services were introduced to Shenzhen West through the late 1990s and early 2000s, to cope with Shenzhen's rapidly growing migrant population. Shenzhen West Railway Station was expected to no longer operate as a passenger station once the new Shenzhen North Railway Station is finished, but it has remained open. This has been due to continued increasing public demand for cheap conventional rail services not supplied at the newer stations, built for newer, more expensive high speed trains.

Train Services

Thirteen trains arrive and depart from Shenzhen Railway Station daily. Passengers can take trains from here to 12 cities including Lanzhou, Tianjin, Chengdu, Nanjing, Hefei and Jinan. Most of the train tickets from here are a little cheaper than the tickets at Shenzhen Railway Station, as the facilities and services in this station, as well as the facilities and services on the slower conventional speed trains are not as good as in Shenzhen Railway Station.

Timetable as of December 2012

Train No.	From	Departure Time	To	Arrival Time	Distance km	Total Travel Time
K1620	Shenzhen West 深圳西	08:50	Tianjin 天津	16:06	2,382	31:16
K132/ K133	Lanzhou 兰州	09:10	Shenzhen West 深圳西	07:23	3,100	46:13
K134/ K131	Shenzhen West 深圳西	09:50	Lanzhou 兰州	07:21	3,100	45:31
K9063/ K9066	Tongren 铜仁	10:25	Shenzhen West 深圳西	08:42	1,586	22:17
K586/ K587	Shenzhen West 深圳西	10:35	Chengdu 成都	23:33	2,356	36:58
1281	Jinan 济南	10:52	Shenzhen West 深圳西	14:05	2,090	27:13
K9064/ K9065	Shenzhen West 深圳西	11:20	Tongren 铜仁	08:52	1,586	21:32
1202/ 1203	Xinyang 信阳	11:48	Shenzhen West 深圳西	09:16	1,520	21:28
1204	Shenzhen West 深圳西	13:03	Xinyang 信阳	11:40	1,520	22:37
K9062/ K9059	Huaihua 怀化	13:18	Shenzhen West 深圳西	06:18	1,257	17:00
K556	Shenzhen West 深圳西	14:07	Wuchang 武昌	09:09	1,297	19:02
K9084/ K9085	Shenzhen West 深圳西	14:30	Shaoyang 邵阳	05:46	1,050	15:16
K555	Wuchang 武昌	15:25	Shenzhen West 深圳西	10:16	1,297	18:51
1282	Shenzhen West 深圳西	15:40	Jinan 济南	19:50	2,090	28:10
K256	Shenzhen West 深圳西	16:50	Hefei 合肥	12:34	1,400	19:44
K94/K91	Taizhou 泰州	17:00	Shenzhen West 深圳西	14:56	1,686	21:56
K9058/ K9055	Huaihua 怀化	17:25	Shenzhen West 深圳西	09:42	1,257	16:17
K92/ K93	Shenzhen West 深圳西	17:45	Taizhou 泰州	15:20	1,686	21:35
K9056/ K9057	Shenzhen West 深圳西	18:15	Huaihua 怀化	09:40	1,257	15:25
K9060/ K9061	Shenzhen West 深圳西	19:08	Huaihua 怀化	11:53	1,257	16:45
K588/ K585	Chengdu 成都	19:19	Shenzhen West 深圳西	07:58	2,356	36:39
K9202	Shenzhen West 深圳西	19:30	Yueyang 岳阳	09:58	1,016	14:28
K9086/ K9083	Shaoyang 邵阳	19:50	Shenzhen West 深圳西	11:01	1,050	15:11
K255	Hefei 合肥	20:03	Shenzhen West 深圳西	15:35	1,400	19:32
K1622/ K1619	Tianjin 天津	22:10	Shenzhen West 深圳西	05:56	2,382	31:46

Shenzhen West Railway Station Transportation

In total there are 8 buses available at Shenzhen West Railway Station: Nos. 36, 58, 227, 229, 234, 353, B623 and B682.

Shenzhen Metro's Luobao Line, Liyumen Station is about 200m north of the station. It is offers connections directly between Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport and Luohu Station.

Future Use

Many complaints about the poor facilities and dilapidated state of the station building have been made by the public and the operator. For example, the waiting hall lacks air conditioning. The Pingnan Railway company operating the station has applied for station renovation permits many times, but the government has vetoed plans because Shenzhen West Railway Station is not listed in the government’s passenger railway network plan. In fact, government officials ordered the closure of the station in 2010 but it has continued operating, handling over 7 million in 2011 alone, according to Pingnan Railway records.

According to the network plan adopted in 2006, Shenzhen will only have five railway stations for passengers, including Shenzhen, Shenzhen North, Shenzhen East, Futian and Longgang (Pingshan) stations. All five stations are in eastern or central parts of the city.^[1]

Local support is calling for a major rail station to remain with in Nanshan, at Shenzhen West, especially with development plans to create a new Qianhai CBD area beside the harbour. It is also seen as a cheaper station for travel by many of the migrant workers living in Shenzhen, because it does not have many of the express or high speed services of other stations in Shenzhen, allowing for cheaper tickets.

It was announced in January 2013 that Shenzhen West Railway Station will get a long-awaited facelift, construction to begin in 2013 or 2014. After years of receiving criticism for its poor condition, station operator Pingnan Railway Co. said. The station will become an important terminal for the Shenzhen-Xiamen High-Speed Railway and inter-city rail between Pearl River Delta cities. The station is expected to handle 450,000 passengers during the 2013 Spring Festival holiday. Passengers have criticized its use of temporary freight sheds as waiting halls.^[2]

Shenzhen West Railway Station as of July 2013. Due for major renovations, despite attempts to have station closed down.

Never intended as a major passenger station, outdoor waiting areas have had to be constructed due to the stations popularity with poorer migrant workers.

Ticket hall within Shenzhen West Railway Station

Passengers without tickets or waiting for their train time to come up have to wait in this undercover area.

Preceding station		China Railway		Following station
Xili towards [[Template:S-line/CR left/Pinghu–Nanshan Railway Station|Template:S-line/CR left/Pinghu–Nanshan]]		Pinghu–Nanshan Railway		Mawan towards Shekou West or Mawan

1. http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2012-07/30/content_2143051.htm
2. http://szdaily.sznews.com/html/2013-01/30/content_2367655.htm