Kunshan South Railway Station
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The Kunshan South Railway Station is a railway station on the Jinghu High-Speed Railway (under construction) and the Huning Intercity Rail (opened July 2010). The station is located in Kunshan
Kunshan
Kunshan is a satellite city in the greater Suzhou region. Administratively, it is a county-level city within the prefecture-level city of Suzhou. It is located in southeastearn part of Jiangsu Province, China, adjacent to Jiangsu's border with the Shanghai Municipality.The total area of ​​Kunshan...

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Jiangsu
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The Kunshan South Station has 2 platforms and 6 tracks on the Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway; it will also have another 2 platforms and 6 tracks on the Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway. (The two rail lines will have the same track alignment in the central Kunshan City). The new station is located about a kilometer to the south from the Kunshan Station on the "old" Jinghu Railway
Jinghu railway
The Beijing–Shanghai Railway or Jinghu railway is a railway line in China between Beijing and Shanghai. The line has a total length of 1,462 kilometres and connects the municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu...

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History

The construction of the station started on July 21, 2009. The Station opened on July 1, 2010.
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