Jinhua railway station
Chinese railway station (for the metro station, see Q110660118)
Jinhua railway station (simplified Chinese: 金华站; traditional Chinese: 金華站; pinyin: Jīnhuá Zhàn), formerly Jinhua West railway station, is a railway station on the Shanghai-Kunming railway and the Hangchangkun Passenger Railway located in Wucheng District, Jinhua, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
History
The old Jinhua railway station, served as the main passenger station of Jinhua, was initially built in 1931, and was opened on February 15, 1932. The old Jinhua railway station was the First-class station on the former Zhejiang–Jiangxi railway, consisted of passenger facilities, freight facilities plus a classification yard. The 2-floor station building covered an area of 3,135 square meters.
Metro connections
The station is served by Jinyidong line of Jinhua Rail Transit.
Jinhua West railway station
The railway split the downtown Jinhua which severely had a negative impact on the road traffic due to the expansion of the Jinhua City. The Ministry of Railway initiated a plan to build a new passenger station in Wuliting, the northern part of the city in 1978. The Municipal Government of Jinhua reserved the land of 3,000 Mu in the West of the city as the proposed construction site in accordance to cooperate with the plan. However, the Ministry of Railway announced to suspend the plan for the new passenger station in Jinhua, given the reason of "lack of funding" in a conference held in November 1990. The Jinhua Government then began a massive campaign, including lobbying with stakeholders, members in National People's Congress (Yan Jici) and Political Consultative Conference in order to restart the plan for the new passenger station.
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