Qarhan railway station

The Qarhan or Cha'erhan railway station is a station on the Qingzang Railway at Qarhan in Golmud County, Haixi Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China.

Qarhan railway station
Traditional Chinese察爾汗
Simplified Chinese察尔汗
Literal meaningQarhan Station
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChá'ěrhán Zhàn
Wade–GilesCh‘a-erh-han Ch‘an
Qinghai-Tibet Railway Qarhan Station

Qarhan station is located in Qarhan Playa of the Qaidam Basin, near Dabusun Lake where major salt works are located. As of 2012, a 25 km (16 mi) private railway branch from this station to the nearby facilities of the Zangge Potash Co Ltd. is under construction.[1]

Most passenger trains pass through Qarhan without stopping. As of 2017, just one train a day in each direction (local service XiningGolmud) stops there.[2]

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Preceding station   China Railway Following station
Dabusun
towards Xining
Qinghai–Tibet railway Yushuihe
towards Lhasa

36°47′58″N 95°17′55″E / 36.79944°N 95.29861°E / 36.79944; 95.29861