Jinan West Railway Station

Jinanxi 济南西
Main hall of the station in November 2012
Other names	Jinan West
Location	Huaiyin District, Jinan, Shandong China
Coordinates	36°40′08″N 116°53′13″E / 36.66889°N 116.88694°E / 36.66889; 116.88694Coordinates: 36°40′08″N 116°53′13″E / 36.66889°N 116.88694°E / 36.66889; 116.88694
Operated by	Jinan Railway Bureau Ministry of Railways of the PRC
Line(s)	Jinghu High-Speed Railway Shiji Passenger Railway
History
Opened	30 June 2011

The Jinan West Railway Station (Chinese: 济南西站) is a high-speed railway station in Jinan, Shandong, People's Republic of China.

Overview

Square in front of the station

It is served by the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway and Shijiazhuang-Jinan High Speed Railway which mainly serve the Beijing to Shanghai passengers, and was opened for high-speed rail service on 30 June 2011.^[1] New services to Ningbo, Fuzhou, Wuhan and Changsha were added on 1 July 2013. The West Railway station is located about 20 kilometers to the west of the city centre of Jinan.

Trains from Beijing to Qingdao call at the central Jinan Railway Station instead. Trains will pass through Jinan West and will call at this station.

The design of the station accommodates a sole entrance for departing passengers at the eastern side of the station. There are exits on the western and eastern sides of Jinan West for arriving passengers. At departures level, a part of the waiting concourse is designated as a VIP waiting area for Business Class riders, and another portion dedicated for special needs passengers.

At low levels will be stations of R1 and R2 lines of Jinan Metro scheduled to open in 2018.

Preceding station		China Railway High-speed		Following station
Dezhou East towards Beijing South or Tianjin West		Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway		Tai'an towards Shanghai Hongqiao

References

↑ Jinan welcomes high-speed rail, China Daily, July 4th, 2011

External links

Media related to Jinanxi Railway Station at Wikimedia Commons

Major railway stations in China

North China	Baotou Beijing West South Fengtai Hohhot Shijiazhuang Taiyuan South Tianjin West

Northeast China	Changchun West Dalian North Dandong Harbin West Qiqihar South Shenyang North

East China	Bengbu Fuyang Fuzhou South Hefei South Jinan West Jinhua Hangzhou East South Nanchang West Nanjing South Ningbo Qingdao North Shanghai South Hongqiao Suzhou Wenzhou South Xiamen North Xuzhou Yingtan

South Central China	Changsha South Chaoshan Guangzhou East South Hong Kong Hung Hom / Kowloon West Kowloon Huaihua Liuzhou Luoyang Longmen Nanning Shenzhen North East Futian Wuhan Wuchang Hankou Xiangyang Zhengzhou East Zhuhai

Southwest China	Chengdu East Chongqing North Guiyang Kunming Lhasa

Northwest China	Baoji South Lanzhou West Ürümqi South Xi'an North Xining Yinchuan

Stations in italics are proposed, under planning or under construction.

Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway

Beijing–Shanghai	Beijing South Langfang (Tianjin West) Tianjin South Cangzhou West Dezhou East Jinan West Taian Qufu East Tengzhou East Zaozhuang Xuzhou East Suzhou East Bengbu South Dingyuan Chuzhou Nanjing South Zhenjiang South Danyang North Changzhou North Wuxi East Suzhou North Kunshan South Shanghai-Hongqiao

Hefei–Bengbu Branch	Hefei Hefei North Shuangdunji Xiatangji Shuijiahu Huainan East Xinliufu Bengbu South (Bengbu)

Qingdao–Taiyuan High-Speed Railway

Qingdao–Jinan	Qingdao Qingdaobei Jiaozhou North Gaomi Changyi Weifang Changle Qingzhou North Linzi Zibo Zhoucun East Zhangqiu Jinan East Jinan (- Jinan North)

Jinan-Shijiazhuang (u/c)	Jinan North Jinan West Qihe Dezhou East Hengshui Xinji South Gaocheng South Shijiazhuang East Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan	(Shijiazhuang -) Shijiazhuang North Huolu Jingxing North Yangquan North Donglingjing Taiyuan East Taiyuan

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