Kashgar railway station (喀什站) is the main railway station of Kashgar,

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

and the westernmost railway station in China. It is the western terminus for the

Southern Xinjiang Southern Xinjiang or Nanjiang () is the southern half of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Its historical name was Altishahr ({{zh, c=回部, p=Huíbù), which also includes some territories in modern-day Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, ...

and Kashgar–Hotan Railways. The station is located northeast of the city of Kashgar and is served by regular passenger trains to

Ürümqi Ürümqi ( ; also spelled Ürümchi or without umlauts), formerly known as Dihua (also spelled Tihwa), is the capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the far northwest of the People's Republic of China. Ürümqi developed its ...

via

Turpan Turpan (also known as Turfan or Tulufan, , ug, تۇرپان) is a prefecture-level city located in the east of the autonomous region of Xinjiang, China. It has an area of and a population of 632,000 (2015). Geonyms The original name of the cit ...

. A trip on the faster kind (K-series) takes under 22 hours from Kashgar to Turpan or just over 24 hours to Ürümqi.Schedule for train K9788-K9785, Kashgar-Urumqi

History

The station opened in 1999.

References

External links

* {{Xinjiang transit Railway stations in Xinjiang Railway stations in China opened in 1999 Stations on the Kashgar–Hotan Railway Stations on the Southern Xinjiang Railway