Jingzhou railway station is a railway station located in

Jingzhou District Jingzhou District () is a district of the city of Jingzhou, Hubei, Central China. Administrative divisions Three subdistricts: * Xicheng Subdistrict (), Dongcheng Subdistrict (), Chengnan Subdistrict () Seven towns: *Jinan (), Chuandian (), ...

Jingzhou Jingzhou () is a prefecture-level city in southern Hubei province, China, located on the banks of the Yangtze River. Its total residential population was 5,231,180 based on the 2020 census, 1,068,291 of whom resided in the built-up (''or metro' ...

Hubei Province Hubei (; ; alternately Hupeh) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China, and is part of the Central China region. The name of the province means "north of the lake", referring to its position north of Dongting Lake. The prov ...

People's Republic of 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 ...

, on the Hanyi Railway which operated by

China Railway Wuhan Group China Railway Wuhan Group, officially abbreviated as CR Wuhan or CR-Wuhan, formerly, Wuhan Railway Administration is a subsidiaries company under the jurisdiction of the China Railway (formerly the Ministry of Railway). As of 2007, the bureau is ...

. It is located in

Yingcheng Town Yingcheng () is a town in Jingzhou District, Jingzhou, Hubei province, China. , it administers the following four residential communities and six villages: *Cha'ansi Community () *Hetao Community () *Juxian Community () *Fengming Community () *Xi ...

, some 3 km north of Jingzhou's central business district.

Service

Frequent D-series trains on the Yichang–Wuhan route; some trains continue east to Shanghai. There is no freight service at the Jingzhou railway station, and none is planned. Instead, rail freight destined for Jingzhou is handled at the local stations of the

Jingmen–Shashi railway Jingmen–Shashi railway or Jingsha railway (), is a single-track regional railroad in Hubei Province of central China between Jingmen and Shashi District of Jingzhou. The line is long, and was built between 1986 and 1989. It opened in May 19 ...

History

The station was opened on July 1, 2012, together with the new

Wuhan–Yichang Railway Wuhan–Yichang railway, or Hanyi railway (), is a long higher-speed railway between Hankou (in Wuhan) and Yichang, in Hubei province, China. The railway forms a section of the Huhanrong passenger-dedicated line from Shanghai to Wuhan to Ch ...

. Although the station was physically close to Jingzhou's central urban area, passengers found it inconvenient due to the absence of a direct road connection. However, the new road is under construction, and is to open by the end of November 2012.荆州荆楚大道本月底通车;东门到火车站需8分钟
2012-11-07

Nearby stations

Jingzhou also has several freight stations on the

Notes

{{Hanyi Railway Railway stations in Hubei Railway stations in China opened in 2012