Hangzhou Railway Station (Chinese:

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 杭州火车站 or 城站) is located in Shangcheng District

Shangcheng District

Shangcheng District is an administrative district in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China. There lies the ruins of Empire City of Song Dynasty...

, Hangzhou

Hangzhou

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, Zhejiang Province of China. It is affiliated to Shanghai Railway Bureau

Shanghai Railway Bureau

Shanghai Railway Bureau is a regional bureau affiliated to the Ministry of Railways of the People's Republic of China. As of 2007, the bureau is in charge of a total length of 10,810.5 kilometers, and commercial length of 4,928.1 kilometers of railways. It oversees 503 stations and manages the...

, and is also the terminal of Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway. The station is ranked first-class.

History

The station was built in 1906 as a stop along Jiang-Shu railway(江墅铁路), and then was called "Qing Tai Men Station"(清泰门站). It was openned on 23 August 1907 as the railway was put into use. Because the station was hundreds of meters away from Hangzhou City at that time, the residents inside the city felt very inconvenient. Thus, Ma Yifu(马一浮), a scholar returning from America, suggested the station move into the city. The building of the in-town station started in 1909 and completed in 1910. In 1937, Sino-Japanese War

Second Sino-Japanese War

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 began. The station was bombarded twice in October by Japanese, and Hangzhou was occupied on 24 December. During Japanese occupation in Hangzhou, the station was rebuilt from 26 March 1941 to 21 March 1942, and its appearance resembled the style in Japan's Nara period

Nara period

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As the passenger load continuously grew, the station's capacity could hardly cope with the future demands. Therefore, the old station was pulled down in 1997, and the new station was erected in 1999, and put into use on 28 December.

External links

• Hangzhou Train Travel Guide and Timetable