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:
“Though all the East did quake to hear
Of Alexander’s dreadful name,
And all the West likewise did fear
To hear of Julius Caesar’s fame,”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)
“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)
“It was evident that the same foolish respect was not here claimed for mere wealth and station that is in many parts of New England; yet some of them were the “first people,” as they are called, of the various towns through which we passed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)