Baofeng railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Baofeng County Baofeng County () is a county under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Pingdingshan, in the west-central part of Henan Province, China. It is in area with a population of in 2002. It is 16 kilometers (10 miles) to Pingdingshan. ...

Pingdingshan Pingdingshan (), also known as Eagle City ( zh, s=鹰城, p=Yīngchéng, t=鷹城), is a prefecture-level city in central Henan province, China. It had 4,904,701 inhabitants at the 2010 census whom 1,756,333 lived in the built-up (or metro) are ...

Henan Henan (; or ; ; alternatively Honan) is a landlocked province of China, in the central part of the country. Henan is often referred to as Zhongyuan or Zhongzhou (), which literally means "central plain" or "midland", although the name is al ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. It is an intermediate stop on the Jiaozuo–Liuzhou railway and the western terminus of the Mengmiao–Baofeng railway.

History

The station opened on 19 June 1970. On 18 January 2008, the name of this station was changed from Baofeng to Pingdingshan West. On 15 July 2019, the name was reverted to Baofeng. The name Pingdingshan West was subsequently taken by a station on the

Zhengzhou–Wanzhou high-speed railway Zhengzhou–Wanzhou high-speed railway () is a high-speed railway connecting Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, and Wanzhou District in Chongqing. The section between Zhengzhou East and Xiangyang East started operation on 1 December 2019 ...

which opened on 1 December.

References

Railway stations in Henan Railway stations in China opened in 1970 {{Henan-railstation-stub