Changping railway station, formerly Sheung Ping railway station (at opening) and Dongguan railway station (until 2014), serves the city of

Dongguan Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the ...

in Guangdong Province, China, located in Changping Town of the city. It is served by Guangshen railway, Guangmeishan railway, Jingjiu railway as well as the

Guangdong through train Guangdong (, ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal Provinces of China, province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a ...

service. It is a port of entry to mainland China for passenger trains from Kowloon,

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on the

service.

Configuration

The station is configured in a northwest-southeast alignment. Trains departing to the northwest continue along the Guangshen railway towards

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

. To the southeast, there is a junction where the Guangshen railway merges with the Guangmeishan railway and Jingjiu railway (coming from the east). The Guangshen railway continues south towards

Shenzhen Shenzhen (; ; ; ), also historically known as Sham Chun, is a major sub-provincial city and one of the special economic zones of China. The city is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern province ...

, where it is connected to the

East Rail line The East Rail line () is one of ten lines of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. It used to be one of the three lines of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) network. It was known as the KCR British Section () from 1910 to 199 ...

of Hong Kong at the border near

Luohu Luohu District is a district of Shenzhen, China, located north of the New Territories of Hong Kong, east of Futian District, southeast of Longgang District, southwest of Pingshan District, and west of Yantian District. It is one of the oldest ...

Lo Wu Lo Wu or Lowu is an area in North District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It lies on the border between Hong Kong and mainland China, specifically the Luohu District of Shenzhen in mainland China. The area is most notable as the location of th ...

. The Jingjiu railway continues east through the Dongguan East station then onwards towards Beijing.

History

Sheungping railway station was opened in 1911 along with the Chinese section of Kowloon-Canton Railway, Sheungping being the

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

-based postal romanization of Changping, which is

Putonghua Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standar ...

-based. The

service started to call at Changping railway station in 1994, bringing convenience to passengers travelling between Hong Kong and

, especially Hong Kong residents who reside in the vicinity of Dongguan and commute back to Hong Kong on a daily basis. Since 1997, it also became a port of entry for the

Beijing–Kowloon through train The Beijing–Kowloon through train () is an intercity railway service between Hung Hom station (formerly Kowloon station until 1998) in Hong Kong and the Beijing West railway station, jointly operated by the MTRC of Hong Kong and China Railway, ...

and Shanghai–Kowloon through train services, and at that time all passengers departing from Kowloon were required to leave the train with all their belongings for immigration and customs checks before boarding the train again for their destinations (Beijing or Shanghai), vice versa. The Beijing and Shanghai through trains no longer stops at this station (and became non-stop services) since Beijing West and

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stations set up their own immigration facilities and became ports of entry in October 2003. Dongguan station will be renamed "Changping station" once again with effect from 20 June 2013. The name "Dongguan station" will be used by another station on the Guangshen railway line which is now under construction and was once known as " New Shilong station" in its planning stage.

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* {{China – Hong Kong border crossings Buildings and structures in Dongguan Railway stations in Guangdong China–Hong Kong border crossings Stations on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway Stations on the Beijing–Kowloon Railway