Coordinates: 36°25′08″N 94°55′25″E / 36.41889°N 94.92361°E / 36.41889; 94.92361 Golmud east railway station, or Geermu east railway station (simplified Chinese: 格尔木东站; traditional Chinese: 格爾木東站; pinyin: gé ěr mù dōng zhàn) is a railway station in Golmud, Qinghai, China.
Famous quotes containing the words east, railway and/or station:
“Once did She hold the gorgeous East in fee;
And was the safeguard of the West:”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn’t love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”
—Toni Morrison (b. 1931)