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Luojiaba station

metro station in Chongqing, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ65046848 ↗
Source-derived summary

Luojiaba station (Chinese: 罗家坝站; pinyin: Luójiābà zhàn) is a metro station on the Loop Line of Chongqing Rail Transit in Nan'an District of Chongqing Municipality, China.

It serves the area surrounding Yusheng Road, including a nearby hospital and 2 nearby schools.

The station opened on 1 July 2019.

Station structure

Floors

Notes:

Signage boards of Exit 1 in the station contains no information on nearby places.

As of July 2019, only the elevator at Exit 1 that connects the station with ground level is under construction, while the 2 other elevators, 1 connecting the station with ground level at Exit 2 and the other, responsible for connecting the concourse with the platform are in use.

Loop Line Platform

Platform Layout

An island platform is used for Loop Line trains travelling in both directions. Loop Line trains can access the car depot from using the railway junction. The station can also act as a reversing station using its scissors crossover for trains to switch direction.

The railway junction is located on the right side of this diagram

Exits

There are a total of 4 entrances/exits for the station.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Luojiaba station” as metro station in Chongqing, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Luojiaba, station and metro.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Luojiaba, station and metro providing the first useful test.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65046848. Authority coordinates are 29.529, 106.579. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Luojiaba station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.