Nanning East railway station (
simplified Chinese
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: 南宁东站;
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: 南寧東站) is a
railway station
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and metro station of
Liuzhou–Nanning intercity railway and
Nanning–Guangzhou high-speed railway
The Nanning–Guangzhou high-speed railway (), abbreviated as Nan–Guang railway (), connects Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, in China. Construction started on November 9, 2008; N ...
and the under construction
Nanning–Yulin high-speed railway. The station is located in
Qingxiu District
Qingxiu District (; Standard Zhuang: ) is the county seat and one of 7 districts of the prefecture-level city of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, South China. It is ''Xincheng District'' () approved to rename to the present ...
,
Nanning
Nanning (; ; za, Namzningz) is the capital and largest city by population of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. It is known as the "Green City" because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South of ...
,
Guangxi
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,
China
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. The station, located in 66 Changhong Road, was opened Dec 26, 2014. It is a transportation center of high-speed railways, regular trains, buses,
metro
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Line 1 and coaches.
Construction and Structure
It has a total construction area of 251134 square meters,
while some sources claim a larger area of 267471 square meters,
and cost 6.07 billion
yuan ( million
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) to build. The main building is 48.25 meters tall, 415 meters long and 196 meters wide. The elevated platform is 150 meters wide.
The overall shape of Nanning East Station is based on the theme of “Southern Gate, Rising Green City”. The
pedestal
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adopts the shape of a corridor bridge, echoing the upper colonnade, which reflects the characteristics of the
Guangxi
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veranda
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. The upper storey adopts a combination of triple eave roofs with different heights, which is lifted layer by layer, reflecting the characteristics of modern Guangxi's “rising by taking advantage of the potential”; the giant pillars on both sides of the north and south entrances are full and solid, supporting the central roof, showing the momentum of the “China South Gate”; the twelve pillars of the two-wing
colonnade
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symbolize the twelve tribes of inhabitants of Guangxi; the branches on the top of the pillars stretch to form a whole, and the rhombus texture of the roof is intertwined, shaped like the crown of a large tree full of leaves. This not only shows the multi-ethnic harmony of Guangxi's solidarity and mutual aid, but also fully reflects the ecological characteristics of Nanning as a "Green City".
Nanning East station is also the most technically advanced station under the
China Railway Nanning Group
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. It used an extensive system of steel, smart lighting design, air-conditioning, solar panels and electronic window curtains, along with natural sewage systems and energy management which can reduce the
carbon footprint
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and fuel emissions. The construction used about 20,845 tonnes of steel.
The station building is divided into an elevated floor, a ground floor and an underground floor, with 4200 seats and 4
LCD displays, and has an area designated the "Liu Sanjie Nanning East Station Caring Zone" (Chinese: 刘三姐·南宁东站爱心区). A total of 90 automatic ticket sales machines were set up. The elevated floor of the station is the departure floor. Social vehicles drop off passengers on this floor. Passengers enter the waiting area after entering the station to purchase tickets. The ground floor is the platform floor, where all passengers take the train on, and the first floor is the arrival floor.
Destinations
Currently, Nanning East station runs over 130 pairs of trains, mainly D-series trains which run at about 200km/h. From Nanning East station, one can go to 11
prefecture-level cities
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in
Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
and 19 other provinces in China.
Metro station
Nanning East railway station currently connects to Nanning East Railway Station of the
Nanning Metro
Nanning Metro or Nanning Rail Transit (NNRT) is a rapid transit system in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.
Lines in operation
History
Line 1 officially started construction on December 29, 2011. The ...
, which is the eastern terminus of line 1. The connection is via exits A, D, E and F of the metro station.
The metro station ( za, Camh Hojceh Dunghcan) is an island-like station in the Nanning Metro and to the south of the HSR station. It is oriented east-west and 4 storeys tall. There are 2 island platforms with one for Line 1 and one for the future Line 7 (under planning).
History
The construction of Line 1 began at 15 December 2012.
After the east segment of Line 1 (Nanhu to Nanning East Railway Station) opened on 28 June 2016, the metro station began service as one of the termini of line 1.
References
External links
{{Portal bar, Trains, China
Railway stations in Guangxi
Stations on the Liuzhou–Nanning Intercity Railway
Buildings and structures in Nanning
Railway stations in China opened in 2014