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Xiaojinkou railway station () is a railway station in
Huicheng District Huicheng District () is a district of Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, China. Huicheng is the northern urban center of Huizhou along with Huiyang as the southern urban center. Administrative divisions Huicheng is responsible for the administra ...
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Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...
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Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...
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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
. It opened on 30 March 2016. The station is located on Huizhou Boulevard, and has an island and two side platforms. The station currently serves as the eastern terminus of the
Guangzhou–Huizhou intercity railway Guangzhou–Huizhou intercity railway, also known as the Guanghui intercity railway, is a regional railway within Guangdong province, China. It runs between the cities of Guangzhou and Huizhou in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). It is part of a large ...
until the section to Huizhou North railway station opens. The station has 4 exits, lettered A-D. Exit D was used in the past when the station first opened, but was later changed to only use Exit C.


History

As a supporting station connecting to Huizhou North railway station, this station was named North Coach Terminal in the early planning stage, but at that time, it was only reserved for the long term and was planned as an elevated station. After the construction of the Huizhou Boulevard section of the Dongguan–Huizhou Intercity Railway (now
Guangzhou–Huizhou intercity railway Guangzhou–Huizhou intercity railway, also known as the Guanghui intercity railway, is a regional railway within Guangdong province, China. It runs between the cities of Guangzhou and Huizhou in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). It is part of a large ...
) started in 2009, the
Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...
Municipal Government continued to strive to adjust the line underground in order to avoid the elevated line cutting the city and the construction of the elevated line affecting urban traffic. In 2010, after the Ministry of Railways intervened in the construction of the
Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region intercity railway The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region Intercity Railway System (, abbreviated as PRDIR) is a regional higher-speed rail and suburban rail network being gradually constructed in the Pearl River Delta ( Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater B ...
, the line scheme was redesigned, and the line through Huizhou Boulevard was changed to underground, and the station was also changed to a non-reserved underground station and named Huizhou North Coach Terminal. At the end of 2015, the station was named Xiaojinkou.


Gallery

China Railway Xiaojinkou Sta Turnstile.jpg, Concourse China Railway Xiaojinkou Sta Entrance C.jpg, Exit C


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{{PRDIR, Guanghui ICR=yes Railway stations in Huizhou Railway stations in China opened in 2016