Lianyungang railway station () is a station in Haizhou District,

Lianyungang Lianyungang () is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Jiangsu province of China, province, China. It borders Yancheng to its southeast, Huai'an and Suqian to its south, Xuzhou to its southwest, and the province of Shandong to its north. Its ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

History

The station was established in 1925. The former site of the station was on Jiefang E. Road in the city center. In 1998, the station was moved to the current site together with the relocation of

Longhai railway The Longhai railway (), formerly romanized as the is a major arterial east–west railway in China. It runs from Lianyungang, Jiangsu, on the Yellow Sea to Lanzhou, Gansu, through the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu, cove ...

out of Lianyungang city center. The station was once named as Xinpu railway station (). It was changed to the current name on 1 January 2004. On 20 March 2015, the renovation and expansion project of the station started and the passenger services of the station was suspended. The former station building, opened in 1998, was demolished in 2016 to make room for new platforms and tracks. The new station building is south of the former site.

References

Railway stations in Jiangsu Stations on the Longhai Railway Railway stations in China opened in 1925 {{Jiangsu-railstation-stub