PINGHU Railway Station, after a two-year facelift, will be put into operation Monday, serving 148 intercity bullet trains between Shenzhen and Guangzhou every day, sources from Guangzhou Railway Group Corp. said.
Travelers can book train tickets for intercity trains through www.12306.cn., ticket booking hotlines, or at ticket counters and outlets starting from yesterday.
The railway station will serve travelers to Shantou, Chaozhou and Xiamen through the Xiamen-Shenzhen High-speed Railway.
The Huizhou-Shenzhen intercity rail, which is now under planning, will be linked with Pinghu Station through Nanping railway. The Shenzhen section of the rail runs 70 kilometers with 10 stations. A trip to Nanshan and Qianhai will take about 30 minutes when the rail is put into operation.
Pinghu station will be expanded into a transport hub, where Metro Line 10, which links to Futian Checkpoint, and Metro Line 17, which links to Luohu, will meet.
In 2014, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway Co. decided to renovate the century-old station that had been inactive for eight years. The opening of the station will benefit about 1.7 million people in Pinghu and neighboring Fenggang and Guanlan.
The station was put into use in October 1911, when the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was put into operation. Service was suspended in 2006.
The Pinghu subdistrict government has budgeted 50 million yuan (US$7.49 million) in 2016 to improve the urban environment, landscaping and infrastructure around the railway station.
Source:Shenzhen Daily