Yesanguan railway station () is a railway station located in Yesanguan Town,

Badong County Badong County () is a county located in western Hubei province, People's Republic of China, bordering Chongqing municipality to the west. It is the northernmost county-level division under the administration of Enshi Prefecture. The Yangtze Rive ...

, Enshi,

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, on the Yiwan Railway which is operated by

China Railway Corporation China State Railway Group Company, Ltd., doing business as China Railway (CR), is the national passenger and freight railroad corporation of the People's Republic of China. China Railway operates passenger and freight transport throughout Ch ...

. The railway station is located near Liujiashan Village (柳家山村, Liǔjiāshān Cūn), about 10 km from the main urban area of Yesanguan Town.

Name change

On the planning stage, the station was referred to as Yesanguan railway station (), which was a more precise description of its location. However, the station is opened as Badong railway station () in 2012, as it is the only railway station within

. It is not particularly closed to Badong County's county seat (Xinling Town), being almost 100 km drive from it on winding mountain roads (S245 and G209). In 2022, it renamed from Badong railway station to Yesanguan railway station.

Service

A number of the passenger trains running on the Yiwan Railway stop at Yesanguan railway station; this amounts several trains a day both west (to Enshi, Chongqing and Chengdu) and east (to

Yichang Yichang (), alternatively romanized as Ichang, is a prefecture-level city located in western Hubei province, China. It is the third largest city in the province after the capital, Wuhan and the prefecture-level city Xiangyang, by urban populati ...

and

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), as well as some going to more remote destinations, such as Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

References

Railway stations in Hubei Badong County Railway stations in China opened in 2012 {{Hubei-railstation-stub