Shenzhen East railway station

For the Shenzhen Metro station here, see Buji station. For the station in Pingshan District, see Shenzhen Pingshan railway station.

Shenzhendong 深圳东
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese	深圳东站
Traditional Chinese	深圳東站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Shēnzhèndōng Zhàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Sām jan dūng Jaahm Jyutping sam1 zan3 dung1 zaam6
Chinese name (Buji Station)
Chinese	布吉站
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Bùjí Zhàn Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Bou gāt Jaahm Jyutping bou3 gat1 zaam6
General information
Other names	Shenzhen East
Location	Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong China
Coordinates	22°36′14″N 114°06′52″E
Operated by	China Railway Corporation
Line(s)	Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway Beijing–Kowloon Railway
Platforms	11 (5 island platforms, 1 side platform)
History
Opened	1911 (1911), 2012 (current station building)
Previous names	Buji
Services
Preceding station China Railway Following station Pinghu towards Guangzhou Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway Sungang towards Shenzhen Pinghu towards Beijing West Beijing–Kowloon railway Sungang towards Hung Hom

Shenzhendong (East) railway station (simplified Chinese: 深圳东站; traditional Chinese: 深圳東站; pinyin: Shēnzhèndōng Zhàn), formerly Pu Kuut station and Buji station (布吉站), is located in Buji Subdistrict, Longgang District, Shenzhen, in Guangdong. It is a station on the Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway.

Waiting Hall for Shenzhen East railway station

History

The station opened in 1911 as a freight and Level 3 passenger station (三等站) on the Kowloon–Canton Railway. Initial renovation works commenced in 2004. The station building was demolished in April 2008, and work began on the construction of a new passenger hub that was completed by the end of October 2012.

In September 2012, it was announced that the new station would be named "Shenzhen East Station". The Shenzhen East name was originally assigned to a proposed Longgang Station on the Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway, currently named Shenzhen Pingshan Station.

Structure

The renovated station began operating 21 December 2012. The 127,000-square-meter hub houses the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, serving 3 separate railway lines (2 high-speed lines and 1 conventional rail line). The completed station building features 3 ticket halls and a waiting hall of 7,100m². There are 6 north-south platforms serving 11 tracks on the main platform level. Separate east-west platforms will serve trains on the Xiamen-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway (u/c). The station is adjacent to Buji Station on the Shenzhen Metro, served by Line 3 and Line 5.

Train services

C8004, a Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway intercity train, is passing through Shenzhen East railway station without stopping.

The new Shenzhen East will handle middle- and long-distance, lower-speed trains, including trains to Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces. Shenzhen railway station will be the main hub for intercity trains in Guangdong Province, for example, and its current long-distance trains to Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Guilin and Fuzhou will be relocated to Shenzhen East in the future.

This station was initially designed for stopping by Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway intercity trains but the plan was abandoned after construction was nearly completed, and Pinghu has become the additional station for intercity trains afterwards.

Shenzhen East station is now mainly used for non-high-speed services, while starting 10 January 2024, a pair of regularly operating "D-suffix" train, namely D146/7、D148/5, heading to Zhengzhou station is added where CR200J1-C trains are in use as at January 2024.