Lhasa railway station

Lhasa railway station (Tibetan: ལྷ་སའི་འབབ་ཚུགས་, ZYPY: Lhasai babcug, simplified Chinese: 拉萨站; traditional Chinese: 拉薩站; pinyin: Lāsà zhàn) is a railway station in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Lhasa ལྷ་ས་ 拉萨
Lhasa Station
General information
Location	Doilungdêqên, Lhasa, Tibet China
Coordinates	29°37′30″N 91°04′07″E
Elevation	+3,641 m
Line(s)	Qinghai–Tibet railway Lhasa–Xigazê railway Lhasa–Nyingchi railway
Platforms	4
Connections	Bus terminal
History
Opened	2006
Services
Preceding station China Railway Following station Lhasa West towards Xining Qinghai–Tibet railway Terminus Terminus Lhasa–Xigazê railway Lhasa South towards Xigazê Lhasa–Nyingchi railway Lhasa South towards Nyingchi
Location

Location

The railway station lies in Niu New Area, Doilungdêqên District, 1 kilometer to the south of the Lhasa River and 5 kilometers southwest of the Potala Palace.

The Liuwu Bridge links central Lhasa to Lhasa railway station and the newly developed Niu New Area on the south bank of the Lhasa River.^[1] The bridge is one of the notable structures of the 1,142 kilometres (710 mi) Qinghai–Tibet Railway, the highest railway in the world.^[2]

Schedules

In addition to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the station is served by the Lhasa–Shigatse railway to Shigatse in western Tibet. The station will also be the future terminus of the Sichuan–Tibet railway from Chengdu, with the first section to Nyingchi opened in June 2021 and the full line planned to open in 2030.

As of 2020, there are nine daily departures: two to Shigatse and seven via Xining. Of these, one terminates, and the remaining six each continue to one of the following destinations: Beijing West, Chengdu, Chongqing West, Guangzhou, Lanzhou, Shanghai.

Track layout

The Lhasa passenger railway station is large compared to current needs, containing four tracks serving two island platforms under one roof. There is space for one more island platform and three more tracks.

A departure indicator displays information regarding the next four trains scheduled to depart in both Chinese and Tibetan. The times and train numbers are in Latin alphanumeric characters.^[3]

Gallery

• 
  Station bus stop
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  Station Building
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  One of the station platforms
• 
  The front view of the station building
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  An NJ2 Diesel Engine at Lhasa Station
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  A view of some of the platforms

See also

• Qingzang railway
• List of stations on Qingzang railway