1. A planner in China; railway stations Jan Duffhues december 2010

3. Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing

4. By train

5. In this presentationThe railway stations The railway network Urban transportation TOD … what else I saw

7. 3 levelsDepartures (+2 and up) Platforms (+1) Arrivals (0) So, for changing trains, you need to go down from the platform to arrivals, walk to the front of the station, go up two levels to departures, and descend to the platforms once more

9. 10 south of the ‘centre’ of Guangzhou; middle of nowhere

13. Also: middle of nowhere

15. Cost: railway station $486 mln, surroundings $1,46 mld (wikipedia)

16. Surface: 370.860 m2

17. Span of the roof: 116 meter

19. Wuhan - 4

20. Wuhan - 4 Wuhan - 5

21. Wuhan - 5

22. Wuhan - 6

23. Wuhan - 7

25. Not many users, not even in the future (48.000 passengers is nothing)

26. Surroundings are bare, undeveloped and inaccessible

28. New HSR-station for Shanghai. HSR to Nanjing & Hangzhou already open, not yet to Beijing

30. 1 hall

31. 30 tracks

32. So big, there’s smog inside the building

33. So big, it is confusing. Where are the exits? Or entrances?

34. Looks more like an airport

35. Little/no retail or catering

36. No klocks

38. Shanghai Hongqiao - 4