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Nanning railway station (Chinese: 南宁站 / 南宁火车站; pinyin: Nánníng Zhàn / Nánníng Huǒchē Zhàn)[3] is the main railway station serving the city of Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is located in the city centre, at 82 Zhonghua Road, in the district of Xixiangtang.

Nanning 南宁
Front view of the station building
General information
Location	Xixiangtang District, Nanning, Guangxi China
Coordinates	22°49′45.5″N 108°18′40.5″E
Operated by	China Railway Nanning Group,[1] Ministry of Railways of the PRC
Line(s)	Nanning–Kunming Hunan–Guangxi Nanfang Railway Nanning–Guangzhou Liuzhou–Nanning Yunnan–Guangxi Nanning–Pingxiang high-speed railway (under construction)
Platforms	7 (14 tracks)[2]
History
Opened	1951
Services
Preceding station China Railway High-speed Following station Nanning East towards Liuzhou Liuzhou–Nanning intercity railway Terminus Preceding station Nanning Metro Following station Baicangling towards Shibu Line 1 Chaoyang Square towards Nanning East Railway Station Mingxiu Lu towards Xijin Line 2 Chaoyang Square towards Tanze

Overview

The station opened in February 1951 and the upgrade of building and platforms, to allow high-speed train services also, was completed in December 2013. It is the junction point of the Nanning–Kunming Railway, the Hunan–Guangxi Railway, the Nanfang Railway, the Nanning–Guangzhou Railway, the Liuzhou–Nanning Intercity Railway, and the Yunnan–Guangxi Railway (under construction).

Services

• Rapid transit: Nanning Metro lines 1 and 2 are both connected to the station.
• Regional services:[4] the station is connected to Liuzhou, Guilin, Wuzhou, Guigang, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang, Beihai and others.
• National services:[4] the station is connected to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Kunming, Xiamen, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Xi'an, Qingdao, Changsha and other major cities. One of this services is the "Beijing-Nanning Through Train".
• International services:[4] the station is served by the "Beijing-Nanning-Hanoi Through Train", that connects the Chinese and the Vietnamese national capitals. The planned Nanning–Pingxiang high-speed line,[5] part of the Nanning–Singapore economic corridor[6] and of the Kunming–Singapore Rail Network, would connect also Nanning Station to Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore.[7]

Notable events

In February 2019, Nanning railway station was the scene of a viral video of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un smoking a cigarette during a break on his way to the Hanoi Summit with then American president Donald J. Trump.[8]

See also

• Nanning Rail Transit
• Nanning Locomotive Depot

References

External links

• Media related to Nanning Railway Station at Wikimedia Commons

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