Beijing railway station
Beijing Station 北京火车站 Dongcheng District, Beijing China | |
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| Coordinates | 39°54′10″N 116°25′41″E / 39.902896°N 116.42792°E |
| Operated by |  CR Beijing Beijing Subway |
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| Connections | Bus terminal |
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| Classification | Top Class station |
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| Opened | October 4, 1959 January 15, 1971 |
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  Beijing Station Location in central Beijing Beijing Station Beijing Station (Beijing)  Beijing Station Beijing Station (China) | |
Beijing railway station, or simply Beijing station, is a passenger
Second Ring Road with Beijing Station Street to the north and the remnants of the city wall between Chongwenmen and Dongbianmen to the south. The Beijing railway station opened in 1959 and was the largest train station in China at the time. Though superseded by the larger Beijing West and Beijing South stations, this station remains the only one located inside the old walled city. Trains entering and leaving the station pass by the Dongbianmen corner tower. With gilded eaves and soaring clock towers, the architecture of the railway blends traditional Chinese and socialist realist
influence.
Generally, trains for
Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou) on the Beijing–Shanghai railway and some for Inner and the Republic of Mongolia depart from this station. Some international lines (notably the railway line linking Beijing to Moscow and to Pyongyang, North Korea
(DPRK), amongst others), also depart from this station.
The
trolleybus
routes stop at or near the railway station.
History
Predecessor station
In 1901, Zhengyangmen East Station was constructed south-east of
Beijing–Shanhaiguan Railway built by Imperial Railways of North China. Zhengyangmen East closed in 1959 with the opening of the Beijing railway station 2.5 km to the east, and eventually become part of the China Railway Museum
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Design and construction
To commemorate the
People's Republic of China, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1958 began the planning and construction of ten large-scale projects, known as the "Ten Great Buildings
" to showcase the new outlook of the country and the Beijing railway station was amongst the projects undertaken.
In late October 1958, according to the early 1950 Beijing municipal government's construction and planning records, the design arrangements for the new
railway station was commenced. The station's design was assigned to the Ministry of Railway Institute's third department (now the Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Co. Ltd) with the station house building chaired by then renowned architects Yang Tingbao (杨廷宝) and Chen Deng'ao (陈登鏊), the National Building and Industry Department and the Nanjing Institute of Architectural Design were to cooperate in the design tasks. The station's design progressed rapidly and by early December the same year, the whole design proposal was completed. On December 10, the design proposal was approved by the Central Committee. The then Premier Zhou Enlai was also very concerned about the design and construction of the new Beijing railway station, and dealt with aspects concerning the direction and positioning of station names to the layout of the VIP room environment.[1] In determining the design program proposal, Zhou Enlai proposed that turrets be built on each of the two wings of the main building and this suggestion was adopted.[2]
On January 20, 1959 the construction of the new station commenced with the number of construction workers reaching up to two million people during the peak stage and project investment amounted to 57.82 million
Chairman Mao Zedong wrote the calligraphic characters in the station sign.[3]
The Beijing railway station was one of the largest construction projects in
canopies attached to them. The Station house building faced south and the architecture included both a Chinese traditional style and the Soviet Stalinist architecture.[4] The twelve passenger waiting rooms comprised a total area of fourteen thousand square meters and was able to accommodate 14,000 waiting passengers. The inner complex of the Main Station Building contained a passenger waiting room, mother and child waiting room, movie theater, recreation hall, visitors' restaurants, post office, clinic and other facilities. The roof had two clock towers; bells marked 7 AM and 9 PM by playing "The East Is Red
".
The Beijing station equipment was considered to be relatively advanced at its -time with four AC2-59 type
Otis Company.[6]
Operation
China Railway
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| Platforms | 14 (6 island platforms, 2 side platforms) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the completion of the new Beijing railway station, its transport capacity far exceeded the formerly used East railway station and it played an increasing role in heavy transport tasks, and today it is still Beijing's most important passenger railway station, and has the largest station traffic in China. The number of trains and traffic has also increased year by year: In 1959 there were 33 train lines; in 1966 there were forty train lines; in 1978 there were sixty-one train lines; in 1985 there were seventy-eight train lines; and by 1993 there were eighty-two train lines. During the late 1950s, the number of passengers using the railway transportation system was six million people a year, in the late 1960 it was eight million people a year, in the late 1970 it reached fifteen million a year, and after the
Beijing–Kowloon Railway helped alleviate pressure on the Beijing railway station - this led to a reduction in passenger traffic for the Beijing railway station to twenty million people.[2]
Since 1976, the Beijing railway station had begun a series of upgrades to the passenger service facilities, for example a computer system had been set up for processing
canopy, alterations to the steel arch station poles, and alterations to the original site raised it from 1 to 1.2 meters.[10]
In June 2008, in order to meet the needs of the Beijing Olympic Games, bilingual signs were created at the Beijing railway station to facilitate an overall increase in foreign tourists travelling to the games, in addition to putting up the English name "Beijing Railway Station", several other signs were also erected at station entrances, exits and ticket booths.[11][12]
On June 25, 2021, G902/903 and G907/908 trains will be extended to Beijing railway station, thus the
Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway has charted trains arriving and departing at Beijing railway station.[13][14]
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Beijing Subway
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| Platforms | 2 (1 island platform) | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 210 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 15 January 1971 | ||||||||||
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The Beijing railway station is a transportation hub in Beijing.
- Line 2stops at the Beijing railway station, with Entrance D on the station plaza.
- Beijing Bus routes and stops near the station:
- Beijing Station East (北京站东) 250 m (820 ft) east of the station plaza: 9, 10, 20, 25, 29, 39, 52, 59, 122, 203, 204, 209, 403, 420, 434, 637, 638, 639, 666, 668, 673, 674, 729, 804, 805, 827, 829, 938, 957
- Beijing Station West (北京站西) 280 m (919 ft) west of the station plaza: 103, 104, 208, 209, 211, 673
- Beijing Station Front Street (北京站前街) 290 m (951 ft) north of the station plaza: 9, 24, 204, 673, 674, 729, 804, 特2
- Beijing Station Intersection East (北京站口东) on Chang'an Avenue, 600 m (1,969 ft) north of the station plaza: 1, 52, 90, 99, 120, 126, 205, 208, 420, 637, 666, 728, 特2
- Jianguomen Bridge South (建国门桥南) 900 m (2,953 ft) east of the station plaza on the Second Ring Road: 25, 39, 43, 44, 52, 122, 434, 637, 638, 750, 特2
- Beijing Airport BusRoute 3 has a terminus located about 300 m (984 ft) east of the station plaza.
Bus route numbers in bold denotes bus terminus.
Station layout
The station has an underground island platform.
Exits
There are four exits, lettered A, B, C, and D. Exit A is accessible.
Sister stations
- Seoul Station, South Korea
- Tokyo Station (concluded[clarification needed] 1980) and Ueno Station (concluded 1980), Japan
Gallery
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The facade of the newly built Beijing railway station in 1959 -
Aerial view of the Beijing railway station in 1959 -
An NY1 diesel locomotive hauling a passenger train out of the Beijing railway station in 1959 -
The Beijing railway station at night in 2008 after the station's English sign was added in advance of the2008 Summer Olympic Games -
The Beijing railway station in 2012, after the electrification of the tracks
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Notes
- ISBN 978-7-80740-126-1.
- ^ ISBN 7-113-05380-7.
- ^ E. Perry Link, The Uses of Literature: Life in the Socialist Chinese Literary System Princeton University Press, 2000, pg. 6
- ^ 卢铿 (2005). 《谁来为千城一面的建筑风格埋单》 [Who Will Bill for the City's Architectural Style?]. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
- ^ 上海电梯行业发展历程回顾 [The Self-study review and Development of the Shanghai Elevator Industry]. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 北京站自动扶梯三次大修 由双上行更换为三上行 [The Three Overhauls and Replacements of the Beijing Railway Station escalators]. The Capital Construction Press 《首都建设报》. 2005-04-04. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 上海之最 [Shanghai's Most Recent Products]. The Shanghai City Local Records Office (上海市地方志办公室). Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 《火车站变迁演绎起点和终点背后的故事》 [The Story behind the changes to the Railway Station]. China Construction News (中华建筑报). 2009-09-29. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-07-02.
- ^ 北京火车站首次扩能改造 施工期间照常运营 [The Capacity Expansion of the Beijing Railway Station: operating as usual for the first time during the construction period]. CNS (中新社). 2003-03-03. Archived from the original on 2012-08-03. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 新北京站今日露臉兒 站臺抬高至1.2米 [New Beijing Railway Station site today is raised]. Xinhua. 2004-07-13. Archived from the original on September 1, 2004. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 北京火车站首挂英文标志 [Beijing Railway Station, the first English signs]. Xinhua. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ 北京站首挂英文标志. The Beijing News. 2008-06-19. Archived from the original on 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2010-06-24.
- ^ "京哈高铁首次迎来复兴号智能型动车组 列车增至34列". 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
京哈高铁哈尔滨西站始发的G902次高速动车组列车将首次图定停靠北京站
- ^ "本周五北京站首开"G"字头动车组，六大站迈入高铁复兴新时代" [This Friday, the first G-class train will call at Beijing Station, six major stations in Beijing are in the high-speed age with Fuxing trains]. China News (in Chinese). 2021-06-21. Archived from the original on 2021-06-24. Retrieved 2021-06-21.
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