Ruyifang station


Ruyifang Station is an interchange station between Line 6 and Line 11 of the Guangzhou Metro. It is located underground in the Liwan District of Guangzhou. It started operations on 28 December 2013. The Line 11 station opened on 28 December 2024.

Construction incident

In the 03:00 hour of 5 October 2007, as the Ruyifang station was being dug up, water from an unidentified source covered a area of the construction site was submerged to a depth of. No injuries were reported, and by 06:30 on 6 October, the previously submerged portion was re-sealed.
After the incident, the original split platforms design for Line 6 were re-designed into a full-width island platform, but they had to maintain the original width due to the construction of the siding near the station had completed. This 23m-wide platform once made it the widest platform of the whole line and the metro network, until it was overtaken in 2020 by of Line 8.

Station layout

Entrances/exits

The station has 5 points of entry/exit, in which Exits A and B opened with the station's initial opening. When Line 11 opened, Exits D1, D2 and E opened. Exit A is accessible via elevator and Exit B is accessible via stairlift.
Although there is an elevator next to Exit A, because most of the station space is divided into public areas, the space in the station equipment area is limited, so Exit A cannot be equipped with a direct elevator to the concourse on the fourth basement floor, and only two elevators can be set up separately.

History

This station first appeared in 1997 in the "Guangzhou City Rapid Rail Traffic Line Planning Research ", and was a station on Line 5 in Plan B at that time, located near the original Guangzhou South Railway Station. Later, in the 2003 plan, this station was confirmed to be one of the stops on the current Line 6. In the 2008 proposal, the new Great Ring Line also passed through the station and intersected with Line 6. In the end, the ring line became the current line 11 in the 2010 plan, and it can still interchange with Line 6 here. In 2006, the construction of the Line 6 station started. The original construction plan of the station was the design of the open-cut station hall and the concealed excavation of the island platform, which was later modified to the design of the island platform station with full cut-and-cover after the subsidence incident. At the same time, due to the planned circular line passing through this station, some platforms and interchange points of the ring line have been added to the station design. On 15 October 2011, the station was topped out. On 28 December 2013, the station was put into use with the opening of Line 6.
The Line 11 station started the main structure construction in July 2018, topped out in December 2021, and in April 2024 completed the construction work connecting the station to Line 6, before completing the "three rights" transfer on 30 July of the same year.