Lhasa railway station (, ) is a railway station in

Lhasa Lhasa (; Lhasa dialect: ; bo, text=ལྷ་ས, translation=Place of Gods) is the urban center of the prefecture-level Lhasa City and the administrative capital of Tibet Autonomous Region in Southwest China. The inner urban area of Lhasa ...

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region or Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China in Southwest China. It was overlayed on the traditional Tibetan regions ...

, China.

Location

The railway station lies in

Niu New Area Liuwu New Area or Niu New Area (, ), officially Liuwu Subdistrict or Niu Subdistrict (), is a subdivision of Doilungdêqên of Lhasa, Tibet in Western China. The Liuwu New Area is located southwest of downtown Chengguan, the old center of Lhasa. ...

, Doilungdêqên District, 1 kilometer to the south of the Lhasa River and 5 kilometers southwest of the Potala Palace. The

Liuwu Bridge The Liuwu Bridge (} crosses the Lhasa River linking downtown Lhasa, Tibet to Lhasa railway station and Niu New Area on the south bank. It was built in conjunction with the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, which terminates on the south side of the river, ...

links central Lhasa to Lhasa railway station and the newly developed Niu New Area on the south bank of the Lhasa River. The bridge is one of the notable structures of the Qinghai–Tibet Railway, the highest railway in the world.

Schedules

In addition to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the station is served by the Lhasa–Xigazê railway to

Shigatse Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (; Nepali: ''सिगात्से''), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histo ...

in western Tibet. The station will also be the future terminus of the Sichuan–Tibet railway from

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), alternatively romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of the Chinese provin ...

, with the first section to

Nyingchi Nyingchi (), also known as Linzhi and as Nyingtri, is a prefecture-level city in the southeast of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. The administrative seat of Nyingchi is Bayi District. Nyingchi is the location of Buchu Monastery. Economy ...

opened in June 2021 and the full line planned to open in 2030. As of 2020, there are nine daily departures: two to

Xigazê Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê (; Nepali: ''सिगात्से''), is a prefecture-level city of the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Its area of jurisdiction, with an area of , corresponds to the histori ...

and seven via

Xining Xining (; ), alternatively known as Sining, is the capital of Qinghai province in western China and the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau. The city was a commercial hub along the Northern Silk Road's Hexi Corridor for over 2000 years, and w ...

. Of these, one terminates, and the remaining six each continue to one of the following destinations: Beijing West,

, Chongqing West,

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, sou ...

Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...

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Track layout

The Lhasa passenger railway station is large compared to current needs, containing four tracks serving two

island platform An island platform (also center platform, centre platform) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway interchange. Island platforms are popular o ...

s under one roof. There is space for one more island platform and three more tracks. A departure indicator displays information regarding the next four trains scheduled to depart in both Chinese and Tibetan. The times and train numbers are in Latin alphanumeric characters.IRSE News November 2007 Issue 129

Gallery

File:拉萨火车站汽车站全貌.jpg, Station bus stop File:LhasaRailwayStation.jpg, Station Building File:Lhasatrainstation_shu.jpg, One of the station platforms File:Lhasa_railway_station_20060731.jpg, The front view of the station building File:TIB-lhasabahn-lhasa.jpg, An NJ2 Diesel Engine at Lhasa Station File:Tibet_D04_-_Lhasa.jpg, A view of some of the platforms

References

Sources

External links

''Lhasa Railway Station construction completed''
{{Lhasa Prefecture Railway stations in Tibet Transport in Lhasa Doilungdêqên District Railway stations in China opened in 2006 Stations on the Qinghai–Tibet Railway Stations on the Lhasa–Xigazê Railway