Kunming North Station - exterior - P1340619

Kunming North railway station (昆明北站, ''Kūnmíng Běi Zhàn'') is an old railway station in

Panlong District Panlong District () is one of seven districts of the prefecture-level city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Administrative divisions Tuodong, Gulou, Donghua, Lianmeng, Jinchen, Qingyun, Ciba and Longquan Sub-district O ...

, Kunming, the capital of China's

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the C ...

Province. It was the terminal of the metre gauge Kunming–Hai Phong Railway, but now only sees very limited service.

French Construction

Built by the French in the early 20th century, the Kunming–Hai Phong Railway runs from Kunming to Hekou on Vietnamese border, and then continues to

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. As late as the last years of the 20th century, every Friday and Sunday, a train would depart from Kunming North railway station to

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, the capital of Vietnam. It took about 16 hours to reach Hekou, and 32 hours to

Present State

Due to the deterioration of the railway line, the long distance narrow-gauge service has been cancelled. Since 2012, some local narrow gauge commuter train service resumes at Kunming North railway station, in particular one daily train to Shizui railway station (石咀站) on the western outskirts of Kunming, and two trains daily to Wangjiaying railway station (王家营站) to the east of the city. However, the service was terminated again in December 2017 due to the construction of

Kunming Metro Kunming Metro, or Kunming Rail Transit, is a rapid transit system in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province. With a population of just over 3 million people, Kunming was one of the largest cities in China without a metro system before its cons ...

Line 4.

The Yunnan Railway Museum (云南铁路博物馆, ''Yúnnán Tiělù Bówùguǎn'') is adjacent to the station's tracks. As of 2012, most of the museum is closed due to the

construction and the replacement of the terminal building, but its historical railcar exhibit is still open.Yunnan Railway Museum
/ref> In September 2014, the museum was completely reopened to the public. Historic railcars and locomotives are settled in a trainshed across from the newly constructed terminal building, and are accessible by a footbridge across the railway station.

Metro station

North Railway Station, located in

, Kunming, is an interchange station among Line 2, Line 4 and Line 5 of

. A

cross-platform interchange A cross-platform interchange is a type of interchange between different lines at a metro (or other railway) station. The term originates with the London Underground; such layouts exist in other networks but are not commonly so named. In the U ...

is provided between Line 4 and Line 5.

References

{{Kunming Metro stations , line2=yes , line4=yes , line5=yes Railway stations in Yunnan Transport in Kunming Railway museums in China

French Construction

Present State

Metro station

See also

References