Shanghai railway station
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Shanghai Railway Station (上海火车站) is the main railway station in Shanghai, although its place of prominence has been eclipsed recently by the newly built Shanghai south railway station.
The station is located in Zhabei, to the North of the city centre. The station is the terminus of the main Beijing- Shanghai rail line and offers up to eight Z (non stop, deluxe) trains each day.
In addition to this there are T train (High Speed trains that only stop at main stations) to Dalian, Beijing, Urumqi, Nanjing, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, Xian, Lanzhou, Jinan, Tongling, Tianjin, Taizhou and Ningbo. K trains (fast) serve Guiyang, Changsha, Guangzhou, Kunming, Wuhan, Yinchuan, Xining, Nanchang, Zhanjiang, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Yichang, Chongqing, Fuyang, Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Baotou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Taiyuan, Harbin, Jilin.
The train which takes longest to reach its destination is the T52 (which becomes T53 after Xuzhou) departing at 20:38; it takes 47 hours and 13 minutes to reach Urumqi (This is also China's longest passenger rail route by distance - 4077 km). The shortest journey is to Kunshan on the 2002 deparing at 06:47 daily, taking only 26 minutes.
[edit] Metro Station
A Metro station of the same name is located near the main station.
This station is part of Line 1, Line 3 and Line 4. The trains for Line 3 and Line 4 share the same above-ground platforms.
The metro station is an important transfer station between lines on the metro. In addition, it provides an important interchange between the metro system and the railway station. As in many cities, crime figures around the railway station are higher than in the rest of the city. A tunnel leads directly from the concourse of the main station to the concourse of the metro station.
The transfer from Line 1 to Line 3/Line 4 is actually quite long. Both stations are located are a different side of the actual train station with a long tunnel connecting both. Halfway the transfer tunnel there a branch that goes directly to the train station itself. Walking from one metro station to the other takes between 10 and 15 minutes.
