Bazhong 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 ...

Bazhou District Bazhou () is a district and the seat of Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, People's Republic of China. Transportation Bazhong railway station Bazhong railway station () is a railway station in Bazhou District, Bazhong, Sichuan, China. It is ...

Bazhong Bazhong () is a prefecture-level city in north-eastern Sichuan province, China. Its population was 2,712,894 at the 2020 census whom 1,064,766 lived in Bazhou and Enyang urban districts. History Bazhong became a prefecture-level city in 1993. Its ...

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

, China. It is the southern terminus of the Guangyuan–Bazhong railway and the northern terminus of the

Bazhong–Dazhou railway The Bazhong–Dazhou railway () is a railway line in Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant mi ...

History

On 11 January 2016, the Bazhong–Dazhou railway opened. The service provision was a direct service to

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

with a journey time of just over five hours, and a direct service to

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

with a journey time of approximately 7.5 hours. On 25 October 2019, the

China Railway CR200J The CR200J Fuxing ( zh, s=复兴号, p=Fùxīng Hào "Rejuvenation") is a Chinese higher-speed trainset consisting of a power car paired with unpowered passenger cars operated by China Railway. It is the slowest member of the Fuxing series. The ...

"Fuxing" EMU served the station for the first time. The journey time between Bazhong and Chengdu was reduced to five hours.{{Cite web, date=2020-01-05, title=动车开进巴中城实力圈粉老区人, url=http://www.cnbz.gov.cn/xxgk/bzyw/12577121.html, url-status=live, access-date=2021-12-03, website=cnbz.gov.cn, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203225307/http://www.cnbz.gov.cn/xxgk/bzyw/12577121.html , archive-date=3 December 2021

References

Railway stations in Sichuan