Hai'an 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 ...

in Hai'an,

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, China.

History

Construction on the station began in 1998. It was sited at the intersection point between the Xinyi–Changxing railway and the

Nanjing–Qidong railway The Nanjing–Qidong railway (), commonly referred to in short as the Ningqi railway (), is a higher-speed rail line in Jiangsu Province, China. Its common name is derived from ''Ning'', the one-character abbreviation for Nanjing and ''Qi'', which ...

. It opened in 2004. On 8 February 2015, a new station building was opened.

Station name

On 20 August 2018, the name of the station was changed from Hai'an County () to Hai'an. This followed the former Hai'an railway station in

Xuwen County Xuwen County ( postal: Tsuimen or Suwen; ) is a county in the southwest of Guangdong Province, China. It is under the administration of Zhanjiang city. Geography Xuwen County is the southernmost county of Guangdong Province, at the southern end o ...

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changing its name to Hai'an South.

References

{{adjacent stations, system=China Railway , line1=Xinyi–Changxing, left1=Dongtai , line2=Nanjing–Qidong, left2=Jiangyang, right2=Rugao , line3=Hai'an–Rudong, right3=Bencha , system4=CRH , line4=Yancheng–Nantong, left4=Dongtai, right4=Rugao South Railway stations in Jiangsu Railway stations in China opened in 2004