Beijing Chaoyang railway station

Beijing Chaoyang railway station[1] (Chinese: 北京朝阳站; pinyin: Běijīng Cháoyáng Zhàn), formerly known as Xinghuo railway station (Chinese: 星火站; pinyin: Xīnghuǒ Zhàn), is a railway station in Chaoyang District, Beijing. This station is the main terminus of the Beijing–Harbin high-speed railway, and one of eight main passenger-service stations of the Beijing railway hub.

For the railway station in Liaoning province, see Liaoning Chaoyang railway station.
For the railway station in Guangdong province, see Chaoyang railway station (Guangdong).
Beijing Chaoyang

北京朝阳[1]

Beijing Chaoyang railway station under construction in January 2021
Other namesXinghuo
LocationChaoyang District, Beijing
China
Coordinates39°56′50″N 116°30′29″E
Line(s)
Platforms1 side platform, 6 island platforms
Construction
Structure typein level, elevated
Other information
Station code
  • 11389 (TMIS code)
  • IFP (telegram code)
  • BJY (pinyin code)
Classification2nd class station
History
Opened1968 (Old Railway Station)
22 January 2021[2] (New Railway Station)
2023 (Line 3 of Beijing Subway)
Services
Preceding station   China Railway High-speed   Following station
TerminusBeijing–Shenyang High-Speed Railway
towards Shenyang
China Railway
towards Beijing
Beijing–Baotou Railway
towards Baotou
Location
Beijing Chaoyang
Location in central Beijing

History

The station began its construction in 1966 when the proposed name is Xinzhuang station named after the nearby village. However, there had been a station with the same name in Tianjin. When the station began operation in 1968, the station is named as Xinghuo railway station, named after the Xinghuo People's commune[3] (Chinese: 星火人民公社) (now Liulitun Subdistrict), and the Xinghuo People's commune is named after a famous article written by Mao Zedong, A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire[4] (Chinese: 星星之火，可以燎原).

Xinghuo station was used to be a passenger-service station for passing trains on Beijing–Baotou railway (Shuangqiao-Shahe railway), but all passenger services were canceled in 1996 with the speed-up projects. It has been an industrial freight station linking factories including a granary, a cotton depot, a thermal power plant, and the China National Railway Track Test Center (famous for the loop track).[5]

In 2013, Xinghuo station was confirmed as the largest terminus of the planned Beijing–Shenyang high-speed railway and began the renovation in 2017.[5] During the 2020 Two Sessions, the CPPCC member Pijianlong advised that the station name should be changed to Beijing Chaoyang railway station for the Chaoyang District in Beijing. Investigated and surveyed by the related ministries and commanded by the Premier, the station formally changed its name to Beijing Chaoyang railway station[6] in June 2020, and the former Chaoyang station changed its name to Liaoning Chaoyang railway station.

  • former Xinghuo Station hall (2018)
  • former basic platform of Xinghuo Station (2018)
  • former station yard and sidings of Xinghuo Station (2015)
  • A test train running on the loop track of the National Railway Track Test Center
  • A test train stopped in the NRTTC. All new model trains need to be examined in the NRTTC through Beijing Chaoyang station.


Renovation

The new station was opened on 22 January 2021.[2]

Beijing Subway

The under-construction Line 3 of Beijing Subway will serve the railway station. The planned Line 20 will also serve this station.

References
  1. "京沈高铁始发站星火站正式更名为"北京朝阳站"".
  2. "京沈高铁将全线开通！北京至沈阳缩短至2.5小时". 2021-01-20.
  3. 刘春瑞 (2013-08-03). "47岁的星火站". 新京报. 源于车站当时所在的星火人民公社。后来星火公社改回六里屯乡，车站仍保留了这个名字
  4. "A SINGLE SPARK CAN START A PRAIRIE FIRE". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. Beijing railway group. "The story of the station from Xinghuo to Beijing Chaoyang". The Paper CN (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  6. Que'r. "The future Beijing Chaoyang railway station". Weixin Official Accounts Platform (in Chinese). Retrieved 2021-02-04.
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