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Ürümqi South railway station ( zh, s=乌鲁木齐南站, t=烏魯木齊南站, p=Wūlǔmùqínán Zhàn; , USY: Үрүмчи Җәнувий Векити) is a
railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
of the Lanzhou–Xinjiang, Northern Xinjiang and the Second Ürümqi–Jinghe railways. The station is located in
Ürümqi Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the ...
,
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC: previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads ...
, China. The name of the station was Ürümqi railway station from 1962 until 1 September 2014. This name is now assigned to the newly built high-speed railway station of the Lanzhou–Ürümqi High-Speed Railway.


History

The station was constructed in 1962. On 18 May 2002, that station was demolished to make way for construction of the current station which was opened on 25 April 2004.乌鲁木齐站(中国铁路客运服务网)
On 30 April 2014, a
terrorist attack Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violence during peacetime or in the context of war a ...
occurred at the station, which left three people dead and 79 injured.


See also

*
Ürümqi railway station Ürümqi railway station (; ) is a railway station and a major transport hub for high-speed and conventional rail in Ürümqi, Xinjiang. The station was a small halt called Ergong before renovation. It should not be confused with Ürümqi Sout ...
* Alashankou railway station * Kashgar railway station * Southern Xinjiang railway


References

Railway stations in Xinjiang Railway stations in China opened in 1962 Buildings and structures in Ürümqi Stations on the Beijiang Railway Stations on the Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway Stations on the Northern Xinjiang Railway Railway Station, South {{Xinjiang-railstation-stub