Source: [Sichuan Daily - Sichuan Guan News] Sichuan Guan News reporter Zheng Zhihao "This is a group photo of the station employees, which is very time-honored," said Jing Bo, secretary of the Party Branch of the Longchang Station of the Neijiang Railway on June 25, on the wall o

Source: [Sichuan Daily - Sichuan Guan News]

Sichuan Guan News Reporter Zheng Zhihao

"This is a group photo of the station employees, which is very time-honored," on June 25, on the wall of the corridor of the Longchang Station of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, Jing Bo, secretary of the Party Branch of the Neijiang Railway Department, pointed to a yellowed black and white photo and said.

This photo was taken in 1956. The workers were dressed in neat work clothes, with the above words " Longchang Station running a group of safe and accident-free winning photos for 1223 days." Behind the photo is a fiery era.

Old photos on the wall of Longchang Station. The picture comes from Longchang Station

On December 7, 1951, after the Chongqing-Neijiang section of Chengdu-Chongqing Railway was opened, Longchang Station was put into operation immediately and began to inject vigorous power into urban development. Before the train was opened, the Yida coal mine in Longchang was in a downturn and almost all workers were dismissed from the factory. The train is entering Longchang, with convenient transportation and coal mine production is booming. Less than three months after the train was opened, Longchang opened a factory for producing carbon black along the railway.

On July 1, 1952, after the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway was opened to traffic, the production and sales areas of the goods were more closely linked. Coal from Longchang and other places began to be transported in large quantities to Chengdu and Chongqing. In Chengdu, coal prices have been reduced by 30%, and ordinary families can afford coal as fuel. At that time, the electric light companies in Chengdu also reduced production costs, and the reduction of electricity prices promoted the prosperity of Chengdu's industry.

On November 16, 1953, a photo of a large amount of flour loading at Longchang Station was published on the first page of " People's Daily ". The picture said, "This year, the wheat production in Sichuan Province increased by 20%, and a large number of flour were exported to various places." On the third anniversary of the opening of the Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, a reporter from the People's Daily came to Longchang again, "I saw many newly built factories."

With the development of the economy, the role of Longchang Station in the entire southern Sichuan region has become more prominent.

Zou Yong, an old employee of Longchang Station who has more than 30 years of service, recalled that in the 1990s, almost all the livelihood supplies needed by citizens in southern Sichuan and the raw materials needed for industrial production had to be transported through Longchang Station.

A large tiled mural next to the square in front of the station vividly shows the busy scene of Longchang Station at that time: the main picture of the picture is a huge welcoming pine tree, with the advertising slogan of the Longchang Railway Passenger and Freight Service Department, "providing you with complete vehicles, small-thickness, and container transportation." The signature time was October 1993.

freight advertising mural on the wall of the shop in front of Longchang Station. Photo by Zheng Zhihao

With the rise of other modes of transportation and the smooth flow of more traffic channels, Longchang Station is not as busy as before.

Since promoting the construction of Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle , Longchang Station has shouldered the mission of helping urban development. Neijiang has developed rapidly in recent years, and some of the construction materials required for urban construction are transported through Longchang Station. "According to statistics, building materials, stone slag and other goods account for a relatively high proportion of the goods transported in recent years." Song Bin, the station manager, founded a record book of freight structures for reporters in recent years, saying that the structure of freight products shows that the demand for logistics in urban construction is increasing.

A freight statistics table is posted on the wall in the Longchang Station Station. The reporter noticed that the number of loading and unloading vehicles at the station in 2021 was close to 70,000, and the cargo shipment volume was close to 130,000 tons. The freight revenue increased by about one-sixth compared with 2020.

scene inside Longchang site. Photo by Zheng Zhihao

In the future, the node role of Longchang Station may be more prominent. On June 9, the No. 10 pier of the Luzhou Tuojiang Railway Super Bridge of Longhuang Railway (Longchang to Xuyong Section) was completed, marking the next stage of the construction of the main pier of the bridge.

Longchang Station in Neijiang is the starting point of the Longhuang Railway. After the full line of the Longhuang Railway is completed, from Chengdu to Neijiang to Guangxi, a new route will be formed from Western Land-Sea New Channel Western Channel, becoming the most convenient major railway freight channel for sea to go south to Sichuan to Beibu Gulf Economic Zone.

In Longchang Station, from the first floor to the top floor of the third floor, from black and white photos to color photos, from the 1950s to the present, it records the images of employees on the station in different eras, and also records the changes in Longchang Station over the past 70 years."After the Longhuang Railway is completed, our photo wall will also usher in a major update, and this site will also play a greater role." Jingbo looks forward to it.

This article comes from [Sichuan Daily-Chuanguan News] and only represents the author's views. The national party media information public platform provides information release and dissemination services.

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