The station building has an area of 18,006 square meters, with a total area of 33,528 square metres with the outdoor square. It has been designed to hold 6,000 waiting passengers. It is served by an elevated footbridge across the lines, arrival and departure car ramps, escalators and central air conditioning, electronic ticketing and an electronic-oriented information inquiry system. The outdoor station square hosts a large replica of the ancient Flying Horse of Gansu, a symbol of Lanzhou.
Lanzhou station has five platforms and a total of 12 shared tracks (passenger and freight).
Usage
The station is mostly used for regular speed rail services, being served by the Longhai railway, Lanzhou–Xinjiang railway and Baotou–Lanzhou railway as a major station. The average daily handling capacity is for passenger trains is about 100 trains, including various types of originating and through passenger trains.
