Muxuyuan station

Muxuyuan
明孝陵•苜蓿园
Nanjing Metro
The Line 2 platform of Muxuyuan station.
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese 明孝陵•苜蓿园站
Traditional Chinese 明孝陵•苜蓿園站
General information
Other names Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum
Location Xuanwu District, Nanjing, Jiangsu
China
Line(s)      Line 2
Construction
Structure type Underground
History
Opened 28 May 2010 (2010-05-28)
Services
Preceding station   Nanjing Metro   Following station
toward Youfangqiao
Line 2
toward Jingtianlu

Muxuyuan (Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum) Station is a railway station on Line 2 of Nanjing Metro. It started operations on 28 May 2010 along with the rest of Line 2.[1][2]

Statistics

It has a length of 199.68 m (655.1 ft), a width of 20.8 m (68 ft), a height of 14.46 m (47.4 ft), and it covers an area of 11,015 m2 (118,560 sq ft).[3]

Decorations

Since Line 2 of the Nanjing Metro is centered on Chinese traditional festivals, the theme of this station's decorations is the Qixi Festival.[4] At 700 m2 (7,500 sq ft), It features the largest painting area of any Line 2 station,[4] if not the entire Nanjing Metro system. Several traditional romance stories can be seen if one looks up at the ceiling, such as Niulang and Zhinü, Houyi and Chang'e and so on.[5]

In April 2013, the station became the second in the Nanjing Metro system, after Xuezelu, to install a set of "musical stairs" leading up from the station platform.[6] The stairs, christened "music stairs" (音乐楼梯), were intended to play chords from the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto whenever passengers would use the stairs. However, repeated wear and tear on the steps has caused loss of this unique functionality.[7]

Another set of ceiling paintings on the tale of Niulang and Zhinü

Around the station

References

  1. ↑ 大事记. Nanjing Metro. Retrieved 2018-07-24. 5月28日 南京地铁二号线及一号线南延线建成通车，运营里程跃居全国第四，初现网络化运营格局
  2. ↑ 南京地铁二号线载人模拟运营 [Nanjing Metro Line 2 Undergoes Trial Runs]. Yantse Evening News (in Chinese). May 23, 2010. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ 车站简介. Nanjing Metro. Retrieved 2018-07-25. Find the station name and direct your mouse pointer to it, wait until the icon turns into a darker color, and click.
  4. 1 2 节日文化墙现身地铁二号线. 南京晨报 [Nanjing Morning News]. 2010-04-21. 据介绍，元通站设的是“元宵节”，兴隆大街站“国庆节”，集庆门大街站的“中秋节”，茶亭站的“清明节”，莫愁湖站的“端午节”，大行宫站的“春节”，明故宫站的“重阳节”，苜蓿园站的“七夕节”，钟灵街站的“冬至”，马群站的“元旦”，南大站的“国际劳动节”。
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  6. ↑ 音乐楼梯“亮相”地铁苜蓿园站. 中国江苏网. 2013-04-23.
  7. ↑ 红楼主题墙、音乐楼梯遭破损 南京地铁很“受伤”(图). 龙虎网. 2015-04-08.
  • 换乘路线. Nanjing Metro.
  • 南京地铁线路. Nanjing Metro.

Coordinates: 32°02′25″N 118°50′06″E / 32.04028°N 118.83500°E / 32.04028; 118.83500

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