Line 8 of the

Wuhan Metro Wuhan Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China. Owned and operated by Wuhan Metro Group Co., Ltd., the network now includes 11 lines, 282 stations, and of route length. With 1.22 billion annual passengers in 2019, W ...

was opened on 26 December 2017 as the sixth line in the Wuhan Metro network and the third line (after

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and Line 4) in the system to cross the

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flow ...

History

Line 8 is 38.197 kilometers in length and is completed in three phases. The first phase of Line 8, running from Jintan Road station in

Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers wh ...

to Liyuan station in

Wuchang Wuchang forms part of the urban core of and is one of 13 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the ...

, was opened on 26 December 2017. The second phase takes a north-south alignment in Wuchang from Liyuan station to Yezhihu station opened on 2 January 2021. The third phase, an extension lately added to previous Line 8 plans, runs from Yezhihu station to Military Athletes' Village station, intending to serve the athlete village and audiences of

2019 Military World Games ) , Nations participating=>140 , Athletes participating=9,308 , Events=316 events in 27 sports , Opening ceremony= , Closing ceremony= , Officially opened by= CCP General Secretary and PRC President Xi Jinping , website= (archived) , Athlete's O ...

. Therefore, the third phase was opened on 6 November 2019, prior to the scheduled open date of the second phase.

Stations

References

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