Chongqing West Railway Station

The biggest of the 'one airport, four stations' and the farthest from the peninsula: opened January 2018 in the Shangqiao valley of Shapingba district behind the Zhongliang ridge, it takes the trains to Xi'an, Kunming, Guiyang and Guangzhou, plus a share of Chengdu and, since the January 2026 timetable, one Qianjiang train via Wulong South. Two metro lines, the Loop and Line 5, sit in the basement, and the corridor from the rail exit to their gates has long been a 'single security check' — West and North had it before Shapingba station caught up in January 2025. Everything else about it is scale: a station 6 km from Shapingba, 40-45 minutes from Jiefangbei by any means (platform figure), a taxi rank two levels down, a ride-hailing pick-up that moved to the south side in October 2025, and a chronic tout problem at the exits that the city's own enforcement notices name.