Golmud railway station, Geermu railway station or Ge'ermu railway station () is the main railway station of
Golmud
Golmud, also known by various other romanizations, is a county-level city in the Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province, China. It is now the second-largest city in Qinghai and the third largest in the Tibetan Pla ...
in
Qinghai
Qinghai (; alternately romanized as Tsinghai, Ch'inghai), also known as Kokonor, is a landlocked province in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It is the fourth largest province of China by area and has the third smallest po ...
(
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 ...
). The station is located at 2829 m above sea level and opened in 1979.
This is an intermediate station on the
Qinghai–Tibet railway and the eastern terminus of the
Golmud–Korla railway
Geku railway () is a railway connecting Golmud and Korla, in western China. Construction started in November 2014 and was completed in 2020. The length of the line is , joining Qinghai province and Xinjiang province. The investment is estimated ...
.
History
Golmud railway station was rebuilt and expanded as part of the Golmud–Korla railway project. The new station was opened on 30 June 2020.
References
Stations on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway
Railway stations in Qinghai
Railway stations in China opened in 1979
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