Wuchang railway station
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| Location | Zhongshan Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 30°31′43″N 114°19′4″E / 30.52861°N 114.31778°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | TMIS code: 21077 Telegraph code: WCN Pinyin code: WCH | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Top Class station | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wuchang railway station is a major railway station on the Beijing–Guangzhou railway, the Wuhan–Jiujiang railway and the Hankou–Danjiangkou railway, located on the east side of Zhongshan Road in Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Founded as the Tongxiangmen railway station (通湘门站) in 1916, the station was moved several times and settled in the current location in 1957. It is the largest transportation center in Wuhan with daily traffic of 77,000 passengers and 20,000 packages as of 2000, and a record of 80,000 passengers per day during the Chunyun period as of 2008.