Shilong railway station

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Shilong railway station

石龙站
Freight station
201609 Yard 1 of Shilong Station.jpg
Yard I of Shilong station
General information
Other names
  • Shilong Railway International Logistics Center [石龙铁路国际物流中心]
  • Honghai station [红海站]
Location Shilong Town, Dongguan City, Guangzhou
China
Coordinates 23°07′25″N113°50′24″E / 23.123636°N 113.840023°E / 23.123636; 113.840023
Owned by China Railways.svg CR Guangzhou
Operated by China Railways.svg Guangshen Railway Co.
Line(s) Guangshen railway
Tracks4
Other information
Station code
  • TWIL code: 23756 [1]
  • Telegraph code: SLQ
  • Pinyin code: slo
Services
Preceding station China Railways.svg China Railway Following station
Shitan
towards Guangzhou
Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway Dongguan
towards Shenzhen
Location
Shilong railway station
Dongguan Railway Port of Entry
Shilong railway station
Native name
东莞铁路口岸 Shilong International Railway Logistics Center

Shilong station (in Cantonese reading Shek Lung station), also known as the Shilong Railway International Logistics Center is a third-class freight station in Dongguan City, Guangdong province, on the Guangshen Railway. [2] Since 2015, it is a temporary inland railway Port of Entry, part of the Dongguan land port of entry. [3]

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The station used to include an important passenger station in the Guangzhen line that was a stop for the CRH trains between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with 170 passenger train movements every day, but it was closed in 2014. [4] [5]

History

Shilong Station enterence.jpg

The station was opened in 1911 as the Shilong Central Station of the newly completed Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway (Chinese Section). [6] [7] Since the opening of the Hong Kong-Guangzhou Through Train on 15 October 1911, Shilong Station became the main stop in the Dongguan area, as it was a necessary watering stop for the steam trains. [8]

When Chiang Kai-shek led his army to the east to attack warlord Chen Jiongming in 1925, the headquarters of the Eastern Expedition Army was located in a carriage parked at Shilong railway station. [9] To this day, a sculpture of Sun Yat-sen inspecting the Shilong Railway Station still stands at the entrance of the station.

After the establishment of the PRC and the closure of the border with Hong Kong, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Through Train service was interrupted on 14 October 1949, and the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway (Chinese Section) was renamed the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway. Although the through train service was resumed on 4 April 1979, it no longer stopped at Shilong station. [10]

Shilong Station was expanded three times in 1984, 2001, and 2006, creating a peculiar two-yard layout extending to both sides of the Dongjiang Northern Branch. [11] The passenger station (Yard II) was a major stop in the high-speed intercity service between Shenzhen and Guangzhou until it was closed and all services moved to the new Dongguan railway station (also known as "New Shilong station"). The last D-7064 train left the station at 11:21 pm of 7 January, and at 00:01 of 8 January 2014, Shilong Railway Station officially stopped passenger services. [12] The Yard I became the Shilong Railway International Logistics Center, exclusively dedicated to freight.

Station layout

Shilong International Railway Logistics Center

The Shilong Yard I is also known as the Honghai station (紅海站). The station is located on tracks III and IV of the Guangshen Railway, on the border between Dongguan and Guangzhou, next to Guanzeng Road, Sanjiang Community, Shitan Town, Zengcheng district. It has 4 freight station tracks. It has spur tracks to the Honghai Rail Welding Base of the Guangzhou repair stage., [13] a spur to the China Merchant's Group Dongguan Sinotrans Logistics Shilong Port Area, , [14] a spur to the Shilong Station Cargo Yard, and an industrial siding for the Shilong Wood Factory. [15] In 2017, the Shilong International Railway Logistics Center was built on the east side of the Honghai station. [16] It was completed in 2019 and handles mostly container freight. [17] Shilong Freight Yard is the starting point for many express mail trains mail. [18] [19] [20] and it is a terminal of the China-Europe Express (中欧班列) system. [21]

Shilong passenger station

The Shilong Yard II, or the passenger station, was located on the southern side of the Shilong North Bridge over the Dongjiang North Branch.

The first-level platforms were used for the Guangshen Railway's tracks III and IV (the conventional speed tracks), and there were two central through-tracks and two side station tracks on an elevated roadbed. It was mostly used for long distance passenger trains.

The second-level platforms were used by Guangshen Railway's tracks I and II (the high-speed tracks). There were two side platforms, located on a viaduct two to three stories above the ground. The platform was equipped with eaves and platform screen doors (originally electric metal fences, the first train station in China with platform screen doors) to prevent passengers from falling into the tracks, which allowed Guangzhou-Shenzhen intercity trains to overpass the station at high speeds (the slipstream wind and wake of trains above 140 km/h can be dangerous in open platforms). [22]

The lower Shilong station has been demolished, thought the platforms remain and the station tracks have been retained as a passing loop for lines III-IV. [23] The upper station is still extant but it is inoperative as of 2025.

References

  1. ↑ 根据《中华人民共和国铁路车站代码》（GB/T10302-2010）
  2. ↑ "车务之家：京九铁路全线站点介绍". Archived from the original on 2007-11-21. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  3. ↑ 王红君 (2015-09-14). "东莞石龙铁路国际物流中心启用". 东莞阳光网. Archived from the original on 2018-12-02. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
  4. ↑ "东莞火车站将于8日正式启用 26条公交线路接驳". 6 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  5. ↑ "东莞火车站即将在明天正式启用（新石龙火车站更名东莞站）". 7 January 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-03-30. Retrieved 2014-03-30.
  6. ↑ "新石龍火車站動工 力爭2011年投入使用". Archived from the original on 2011-06-12. Retrieved 2011-12-02.
  7. ↑ 中共东莞市石龙镇委员会, ed. (2004). "第二节 铁路" (PDF). 东莞市石龙镇志. Vol. 第一卷. 广州: 岭南美术出版社. pp. 209–211. ISBN   7-5362-3007-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2025-02-24. Retrieved 2025-02-24.
  8. ↑ 九廣鐵路公司（2006年）：《百載鐵道情》，第136頁，香港：九廣鐵路公司。
  9. ↑ "东莞轻轨R2线起点站石龙火车站动工". Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  10. ↑ "Guangzhou-Kowloon through train service resumed | Today in History | Fun Fact". Our China Story. 2025-04-04. Retrieved 2025-04-14.
  11. ↑ "石龙新火车站本月31日动工 首条轻轨共设11站". Archived from the original on 2019-08-31. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  12. ↑ "百年老站的最后一夜(组图)". 搜狐网. 2014-01-09. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2017-02-15.
  13. ↑ 魏品香 (2010). "红海、衡西两焊轨基地调查研究". 广东科技. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-5423.2010.14.019.
  14. ↑ "中国外运广东公司公铁海河多式联运项目入选国家示范工程". 招商局集团. 2016-06-02.[ dead link ]
  15. ↑ "营业站服务信息查询". 中国铁路95306网. Archived from the original on 2018-09-14. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  16. ↑ "中东欧国家主流媒体16国记者团参观建筑公司石龙铁路国际物流中心(石龙货场)项目". 中铁四局. 2018-04-28.
  17. ↑ "石龙铁路集装箱办理站工程开工 预计2019年完工，分为三大功能区". 南方日报. 2017-07-06. Archived from the original on 2019-01-07. Retrieved 2020-05-28.
  18. ↑ "复兴号动车组首次试点整列装运快件". 首都建设报 . 2020-11-02. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24. 铁路部门对去往广州方向X103次特快货物班列进行了调整......到站也由广州市区的棠溪站变更至广州市增城区的石龙站，有效避免广州市区白天货车禁行影响，更加靠近顺丰华南分拨作业点
  19. ↑ 许鸽飞 (2022). "石龙站X104电商班列安检优化对策探讨". 铁道货运. 40 (11). 中国铁道科学研究院集团有限公司: 29–33. ISSN   1004-2024. X104电商班列发站为广州局集团公司石龙站，到站为中国铁路北京局集团有限公司黄村站......装车地点在石龙新货场货7线
  20. ↑ "铁路货运助力"双11"". 北京城市副中心报. 2022-11-08. Archived from the original on 2022-12-25. Retrieved 2022-12-24. 以这列X104次为例，这趟车从广东省东莞市石龙镇出发，装载了大约6万个订单的货物，运行时间不到24个小时，编组是17辆
  21. ↑ Eurasian Development Bank Center for Integration Studies (2018). "Silk Road Transport Corridors: Assessment of Trans-EAEU Freight Traffic Growth Potential" (PDF). eabr.org. p. 61. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-03-17. Retrieved 2025-04-12.
  22. ↑ Rocchi, D.; Tomasini, G.; Schito, P.; Somaschini, C. (2018-02-01). "Wind effects induced by high speed train pass-by in open air" . Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics. 173: 279–288. Bibcode:2018JWEIA.173..279R. doi:10.1016/j.jweia.2017.10.020. ISSN   0167-6105.
  23. ↑ "广深线石龙II场关闭及I场改造相关工程设计招标". 广州公共资源交易中心. 2025-03-12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2025-03-12. Retrieved 2025-03-12.
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