Songjiazhuang station

Songjiazhuang

宋家庄
Songjiazhuang; 宋家庄
	Line 5 boarding platform; ; Line 10 clockwise platform; ; Yizhuang line boarding platform
General information
Location	Songzhuang Road (宋庄路) and Shiliuzhuang Road (石榴庄路); Dongtiejiangying Subdistrict, Fengtai District, Beijing; China
Operated by	Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corporation Limited
Line(s)	Line 5; Line 10; Yizhuang line;
Platforms	10 (4 island platforms and 3 side platforms)
Tracks	7
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	October 7, 2007; 16 years ago (Line 5); December 30, 2012; 11 years ago; (Line 10); December 30, 2010; 13 years ago (Yizhuang line)
Services
Location
	Songjiazhuang Location in central Beijing

Songjiazhuang Station (simplified Chinese: 宋家庄站; traditional Chinese: 宋家莊站; pinyin: Sòngjiāzhuāng Zhàn) is a station on Line 5, Line 10, and the Yizhuang Line of the Beijing Subway. This is an interchange station, terminal for Line 5 and Yizhuang Line. These two stations lie in the perpendicular directions, so that the passengers leaving the train from Line 5 proceed ahead to get to the station of Yizhuang Line. The station handled a peak passenger traffic of 262,800 people on May 5, 2013.^[1]

On December 30, 2012, Phase 2 Section 1 of Line 10 opened, passing through Songjiazhuang Station, making Songjiazhuang Station the 3rd 3-way transfer station of Beijing Subway (The first two being Xizhimen Station and Dongzhimen Station).

The Yizhuang Line has three platforms employing the spanish solution. For the Yizhuang Line departing passengers use the middle platform, whereas the arriving passengers disembark to the side platforms.

Station layout edit

The entire station is underground. Line 5 has 2 side platforms. Line 10 has dual-island platforms with a single track between the 2 platforms. The Yizhuang line also has dual-island platforms, using the spanish solution.

With 10 platforms and 7 tracks, the station places first on the amount of platforms and second (to Xingong station) on the amount of tracks throughout the entire Beijing Subway.