Xiong'an railway station () is a railway station in

Xiong County Xiong County or Xiongxian () is a county in the central part of Hebei province, China. It is the easternmost county-level division of the prefecture-level city of Baoding. It is part of the Xiong'an New Area designated by national government in A ...

Xiong'an New Area Xiong'an New Area is a state-level new area in the Baoding area of Hebei, China. Established in April 2017, the area is located about south of Beijing and east of downtown Baoding. Its main function is to serve as a development hub for the ...

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. It opened on 27 December 2020.

Design

This station covers a total construction area of , which has been described as the largest train station in Asia. This station project is collaborated designed by

AREP AREP (, "Architecture, Research, Engagement, Post-Carbon") is a multidisciplinary consultancy that is wholly owned by SNCF (Stations and Connections division). It was formed in 1997 by Jean-Marie Duthilleul and Étienne Tricaud, architects and ...

in 2017, China Railway Design Corporation, China Architecture Design & Research Group, BMEDI and China Academy of Urban Planning & Design. The construction began on August 29, 2018 by China Railway 12th Bureau Group, China Railway Construction Engineering Group, China Construction Third Engineering Bureau and finished in the end of 2020. The concept design is inspired by the water culture of

Baiyang Lake Baiyang Lake, also known as Lake Baiyangdian, is located in the Xiong'an New Area of Baoding, a prefecture-level city in Hebei Province, China. It is the largest freshwater lake in northern China. It is referred to as the Kidney of North China ...

. The oval waterdrop shape symbolised a dewdrop on a lotus or a gushing spring. Undulating layers on the roof look like ripple on the water surface. The facade design uses element of the traditional Chinese grand hall showing Chinese cultural genes. It has a solar panel array on its roof with an installed capacity of 6 MW.

Structure

The station hall of Xiong'an has three floors overground and two floors underground. Among the floors, the ground floor is waiting hall and bus terminus and the second floor is the platform floor for railway and reserved Xiong'an Rail Transit Line R1 & R2. The third floor is the elevated waiting hall. The basement first floor is for the future business development, and the basement second floor is for the reserved metro line M1.

Future

The station will also be connected to the Xiong'an Rail Transit system in the future. It is designed to accommodate

high-speed rail High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated railway track, tracks. While there is ...

and take 20 minutes to go to

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, as well as around 30 minutes to reach the train station at Beijing and

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, and 60 minutes to get to

Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang; Mandarin: ; formerly known as Shimen and romanized as Shihkiachwang is the capital and most populous city of China's Hebei Province. A prefecture-level city southwest of Beijing, it administers eight districts, three county-le ...

References

Railway stations in Hebei Railway stations in China opened in 2020 Stations on the Beijing–Xiong'an intercity railway {{Hebei-railstation-stub