Walking into the central hall on the first floor of Lhasa Station, it is as if one is in a traditional Tibetan-style palace, while the electronic display screen and escalators bring people back to the modern society. The central hall is mainly in red tones, the floor is paved with white and red-based color bright senior non-slip stone, and the hall stands tall with eight large columns, making people's eyes bright.
It is said that this indoor columns are designed in Tibetan architectural style. The interior of the columns is a steel structure, while the exterior is covered with specially treated red pine wood, which is anticorrosive, UV-resistant and deformation-resistant. "The best feature of these columns is that they can be fireproof because of the special chemical treatment." On the southeast side of the first-floor lobby, there is a large soft-seat waiting room and three VIP waiting rooms. The VIP halls are equipped with high-class carpets and large tapestries, while the tapestry patterns are mainly famous tourist attractions in Tibet such as the Potala Palace and Mount Everest. The halls on the first and second floors are equipped with east-west through corridors, and on the west side of the halls on the first floor, there are general waiting halls and ticketing halls.
Ticketing for trains, airplanes and long-distance buses is centrally handled in the ticket hall.
There is a large shopping mall on the northeast side of the hall on the second floor, and an ordinary waiting room on the south side, in which there is also a special waiting room for mothers and babies, a waiting room for military personnel, a small soft-seat waiting room and a medical room. Lhasa station general waiting room area of 1760 square meters, soft seat waiting room area of about 800 square meters, VIP waiting room area of less than 700 square meters.
Lhasa Station*** has six platforms, two of which are spare platforms. It can enter and exit 10 trains at the same time, with a daily passenger throughput of up to 2,700 people. The whole station building is heated by solar energy equipment, and all the heating equipment has no source of pollution.
Lhasa Station was completed on June 25, 2006, and the construction of the station was carried out by China Railway Construction Engineering Corporation (CRECEC). The China Railway Construction Group, which is responsible for the construction of the station, said that the modern Tibetan-style building will enable travelers to enjoy the convenience of a variety of modern services while experiencing the national flavor.