Beijing Railway Station
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15号-17 Bei Jing Zhan Xi Jie, Dongcheng Qu, Beijing Shi, China, 100062 Print route »
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Beijing Railway Station (simplified Chinese: 北京火车站; traditional Chinese: 北京火車站; pinyin: Běijīng Huǒchēzhàn), or simply Beijing Station (Chinese: 北京站; pinyin: Běijīngzhàn), is a passenger railway station in Dongcheng District, Beijing. The station is located just southeast of the city centre inside the 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 Though superseded by the larger Beijing West and Beijing South Stations, this station remains the only one located inside the old walled city.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 Manchuria (Shenyang, Dalian, Harbin) on the Beijing-Harbin Railway, for Shandong (Jinan, Qingdao) and the Yangtze River Delta (Shanghai, Nanjing and Hangzhou) on the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and some for Inner and Outer Mongolia depart from this station. Some international lines (notably the railway line linking Beijing to Moscow, Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK), amongst others), also depart from this station.
The Beijing Subway's first line used to terminate at Beijing Railway Station from 1969 to 1981. The subway station is now a stop on Line 2. More than 30 Beijing bus and Beijing trolleybus routes stop at or near the railway station.
