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Oldest train station to undergo renovation

www.chinanews.cn 2006-05-09 16:55:38

Pictured, few platform bridges like this one in the Beijing South Railway
Station that has been used for nearly half a century, can be seen in
China now.

Pictured, the 50-year-old ticket check point in the Beijing South Railway
Station is finally closed down.

Chinanews, May 9 - The Beijing South Railway Station, the oldest railway
station in the capital that has been used for 109 years, will stop
operation for a major renovation beginning Wednesday morning. The
renovation will last for one and half years.
At 11:09 tonight, the No. 2141 that runs from Tianjin to Wuhaixi will be
the last train to pass through the Beijing South Railway Station.
Spokesman of the railway station Xiao Limei said the railway station
would stop operation from tomorrow morning. All trains that originally
went past or stopped at the Beijing South Railway Station will be
diverted to the Beijing West Railway Station, the Beijing Railway
Station, the Beijing North Railway Station, and the Fengtai Railway
Station.
When completed, the new Beijing South Railway Station will become the
departure station for all high-speed and express trains that start from
Beijing, which is expected to have a larger passenger flow than its
current 8,000 daily passenger volume. It is expected that by 2015, the
new railway station will handel some 150 million people a year and by
2020, the figure will further increase to 190 million.
The new railway station is planned to cover an area of 180 hectares, with
the major area covering 94 hectares, 7.5 times as large as the Beijing
Railway Station. After completion, it will become the largest railway
station in Asia in terms of its building area, surpassing the Beijing
West Railway Station that covers 50 hectares. It waiting hall can hold
10,500 people.

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