Shigatse railway station (), officially Xigazê, is a railway station in

Shigatse Shigatse, officially known as Xigazê () or Rikaze ( zh, s=日喀则, p=Rìkāzé), 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 ...

Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China. It was established in 1965 to replace the ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It lies in

Jiacuoxiong Township Gyacoxung (; ) is a township of Samzhubzê District (Shigatse City), in the Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), often shortened to Tibet in English or Xizang in Pinyin, Hanyu Pinyin, is an Autonomous regions of China, ...

, Samzhubzê District. The station officially opened for operations on 16 August 2014.

Track layout

The Shigatse passenger railway station is large compared to current needs as it has five tracks serving two

island platform An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single platform is positioned between two tracks within a railway station, tram stop or transitway inte ...

s and a single

side platform A side platform (also known as a marginal platform or a single-face platform) is a platform positioned to the side of one or more railway tracks or guideways at a railway station, tram stop, or transitway. A station having dual side platforms, ...

. Islands reserved for expansion include ''international'' (or at least to the border) plans for

China–India railway China–India Railway or Sino Indian Railway () are a number of planned railways between China and India: * Shigatse-Yadong-Sikkim line: Most advanced in implementation, technically not entering India yet still bearing the name, 460 km standard ...

link to

Yadong Yadong County (), also known by its Tibetan name Dromo/Tromo County () is a frontier county and trade-market of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, part of its Shigatse Prefecture. Yadong County is coextensive with the Chumbi valley that ex ...

as well as a

China–Nepal railway The China–Nepal Railway ( zh, 中尼铁路; ) is a planned railway between China and Nepal. The railway will link Kathmandu with Shigatse, Tibet, crossing the China–Nepal border at Gyirong– Rasuwa. Background As a landlocked country nes ...

link to Gyirong and at some point,

Kathmandu Kathmandu () is the capital and largest city of Nepal, situated in the central part of the country within the Kathmandu Valley. As per the 2021 Nepal census, it has a population of 845,767 residing in 105,649 households, with approximately 4 mi ...

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Stations on the Lhasa–Xigazê Railway Railway stations in Tibet Buildings and structures in Shigatse Railway stations in China opened in 2014 2010s establishments in Tibet 2014 establishments in China {{Tibet-railstation-stub

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