Longyang Road station

Location
	Longyang Road Location in Shanghai

Longyang Road

Long Dương lộ
Longyang Road; Long Dương lộ
	Line 2 Platform
General information
Location	Longyang Road (Long Dương lộ) and Baiyang Road (Bạch dương lộ); Pudong, Shanghai; China
Coordinates	31°12′11″N121°33′25″E/ 31.203147°N 121.556862°E
Operated by	Shanghai No. 2/3 Metro Operation Co. Ltd.; Shanghai Maglev Transportation Development Co., Ltd.
Line(s)	Line 2; Line 7; Line 16; Line 18; Shanghai maglev train;
Platforms	Metro: 10 (5island platforms); Maglev: 4 (1islandand 2side platforms)
Tracks	Metro: 10; Maglev: 2
Construction
Structure type	Underground (Lines 2, 7 & 18); Elevated (Line 16 & Maglev)
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Station code	L02/12(Line 2) L7/32(Line 7) L16/01(Line16)
History
Opened	20 September 1999(Line 2); 31 December 2002(Maglev); 5 December 2009(Line 7); 28 December 2014(Line 16); 30 December 2021(Line 18);
Services
Location
Location
	Longyang Road Location in Shanghai

Longyang Road(simplified Chinese:Long Dương lộ;traditional Chinese:Long Dương lộ;pinyin:Lóngyáng Lù) is aninterchange stationthat serves both theShanghai maglev trainand lines2,7,16and18on theShanghai Metro.^[1]It provides quick transfers between the metro system and the Maglev train to and fromPudong International Airport.There are two separate fare-paid zones at this station: one for the conventional metro lines (Lines 2, 7, 16, 18) and one for the Maglev train, which has a separate fare system. It is also the third four-line interchange station in mainland China and the second in Shanghai, afterCentury AvenueandChegongmiaoinShenzhen,and the first five-line interchange (Maglev included) station in Shanghai and mainland China.

History

On 20 September 1999, this station is part of the initial section of Line 2 that opened fromZhongshan Parkto this station that opened.^[2]^[3]^[4] Trial operations on the Shanghai Maglev opened on the last day of 2002.^[5]

The interchanges with Lines 7 opened on 5 December 2009.^[6]^[7] The interchange with Line 16 opened on 28 December 2014.^[8] The interchange with Line 18 opened on 30 December 2021, with the formal opening of Line 18 north section, the station becomes a five-line transfer station.

Structure

The layouts of transfer routes in Chinese

Longyang Road station consists of five parts, from north to the south respectively, Line 7, Line 2, Maglev Line, Line 16 and Line 18. Lines 2, 7 and 18 are under ground, while the station hall of Line 2 is on the ground level. The station on Line 16 and Maglev Line are elevated stations.

The platform of Lines 2, 7, 18 are standard island platforms. There are 2 sets of island platforms at Line 16, while trains provide service usually on platforms 1, 2 and 3.^[9]The platform 2 is usually used for express trains (stops only atLuoshan Road station,Xinchang station,Huinan station,Lingang Avenue stationandDishui Lake station) and non-stop trains (directly heads for Dishui Lake).^[10]The train coupling and decoupling take place on weekdays at platform 1.

Concourse for L2
Concourse for L7
Platform of Line 7
Exterior of Maglev station
Line 16platform
Station hall ofLine 18
The platform of Line 18
Station name wall at the Line 18 platform

Transfer

Since the opening of the north section of Line 18, Longyang Road has become a five-line transfer station. Between the part ofLine 7,Line 2,Line 16andLine 18,there are two mono-directional transfer passages. For example, passengers at Line 7 can go through a transfer passage and arrive at the station hall of Line 2, which takes about 3 minutes. Then across the station hall of Line 2, passengers walks above one minute to arrive at the west end of Line 16 station hall. Passengers can either turn left to transfer to Line 16, which takes 3.5 minutes, or walk straight to transfer to Line 18, which takes about 1 minute and 45 seconds.^[11]

Passengers at the Line 18 station hall at the south end of the whole station can walk to the station hall of Line 16 through a transfer passage at the east, which takes about 3.5 minutes. Then passengers can arrive at the station hall of Line 2 through the station hall of Maglev Line and a set of mono-directional escalator, which takes about 2.5 minutes. Following through the transfer passage, passengers at the Line 2 station hall will walk to the east end of Line 7 station hall, which takes about 2min.^[11]

To take theShanghai maglev train,the nearest exit is Exit 4 at Line 2.

Transfer passage between the two station halls of Line 2 & Line 7
Transfer passage between the two station halls of Line 2 & Line 7
Transfer passage between the two station halls of Line 2 & Line 16
A set of escalators mono-directionally upwards, at the transfer passage from Line 18 to Line 16
Transfer passage from Line 18 to Line 16 at the elevated part