Hohhot railway station, or Huhehaote railway station () is a

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on the Jingbao Railway line. The station is located in

Hohhot Hohhot,; abbreviated zh, c=呼市, p=Hūshì, labels=no formerly known as Kweisui, is the capital of Inner Mongolia in the north of the People's Republic of China, serving as the region's administrative, economic and cultural center.''The Ne ...

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. It is downtown, next to the Express Bus Station.

History

The station opened in April 1921, expanding the Jingbao Line from

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to Hohhot. The ceremony marking the opening of the line was held in May of the same year. The station was initially referred to by older names for Hohhot, including Suiyuan () or Guisui (). The name was changed to Hohhot Station in 1954. In 1959, work started on the western site () of Hohhot Station. The western site went into use in 1965 and, in 1966, all

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were diverted here. It became common practice to refer to the main site as Hohhot Passenger Station (). In 1981, a formal paper was published by the Hohhot Rail Authority() declaring that the station was a level one transit station.

Metro station

Line 2 of

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, which was opened on 1 October 2020, serves Hohhot railway station.

Development

A new station called Hohhot East railway station () opened in 2008. Both stations service passenger trains, with Hohhot East services heading west to

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, and

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. Trains from Hohhot railway station continue to service the east, including

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, and

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. The trains from Hohhot East railway station also pass through the original Hohhot railway station.

References

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History

Metro station

Development

See also

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