www.chinaview.cn 2006-08-10 19:42:13


SHANGHAI, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Shanghai municipal government announced here Thursday that the city will start building what will be Asia's largest railway station this year.

Hongqiao Railway Hub, the new station, is located in the west of downtown Shanghai, and covers an area of 1.33 million square meters, said Liu Lianqing, director of the Shanghai Railway Bureau.

Construction of the station, which is expected to cost between 13 billion and 15 billion yuan (1.6 billion and 1.8 billion U.S. dollars), will be completed by 2010.

The design of the new station has been made, according to Liu.

The station will provide terminals for four high-speed lines, including high-speed trains between Beijing and Shanghai, and between Shanghai and Ningbo, and the Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev railway, according to Liu.

Currently, the largest passenger transport railway station in Asia is Beijing West Railway Station, covering 510,000 square meters, which began operation in 1996. Enditem


Editor: Pan Letian


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Can anyone send images of the station, please?
Thank u...

I once created a thread with pics in Infrastructure and Mobility when it completed construction with only one person interested in.
I couldn't find it any more.

Which is the world largest train station?

you could find many photo/CG here for Shanghai southern station.

http://image.baidu.com/i?tn=baiduimage&ct=201326592&lm=-1&cl=2&word=%C9%CF%BA%A3+%C4%CF%D5%BE

Found them on chinese forum. And nobody referred the author.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99f748fabf8637.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99f44eeb644992.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99f556d6a89386.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99fe2ecdb03817.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99fc0b492b9487.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99faa295469309.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99fa02bbbf4511.jpg
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f197/chenium/u44d99f8a21e334484.jpg

Which is the world largest train station?


its in Beijing.

The station will provide terminals for four high-speed lines, including high-speed trains between Beijing and Shanghai, and between Shanghai and Ningbo, and the Shanghai-Hangzhou maglev railway, according to Liu.
The construction of Shanghai Southern Station was accomplished recently. The largest railway station started the construction few days ago. Therefore, this is a new railway station.

its in Beijing.

I highly doubt that Beijing-Xi is the world´s biggest station. Just looking at Europe u would find several bigger ones.

Wow! I like the train station! Modern and clean!

Is the station being refered to as the "Hongqiao Railway hub" the same as "Shanghai South Station"?

Oh by the way, the world's largest train stations could be found in Japan and Europe (Nagoya Railway Station is the world's largest in terms of total floor area--mainly because they included the floor areas of the twin office towers in the total). Meanwhile, the world's largest rail yards still belong to the United States. But I'm sure that it is just a matter of time before China's railway terminals/stations would match, or even, eclipse those from Japan and Europe.