In the tide of high-speed rail construction, many modern railway stations with rich functions rose up along the high-speed rail line; and the fifth-class small stations that green trains passed by have gradually disappeared into the memories of passengers as time goes by. On the map of China Railway, the Bund Pictorial found these eight most beautiful railway stations, taking you to see the winding scenery on the platform and reminisce about the remains of slow time.
1. Hsinchu Railway Station, Taiwan: A model of classical Western architecture
was completed in 1913. The Hsinchu Railway Station, located in the center of Hsinchu city in Taiwan, is not only the emotional attachment in the hearts of many Hsinchu people, but also the one with the highest artistic value and the oldest history among the existing station buildings in Taiwan. It is now listed as a national first-class monument.
Hsinchu Railway Station is the work of Japanese architect Matsuzaki Manaka (Matsukisaki Manaka), who settled in Taiwan in his later years. The Hsinchu station designed by Matsuzaki adopts the Baroque architectural style, and uses the Gothic architectural elements, the shape of red bricks and stone, which not only sets off the nobleness but also does not look too gorgeous. The solidity of the stone makes it more solemn. The designers used various factors to create the railway station with extraordinary magnificence, making the railway station soon become a new landmark in Hsinchu City after its completion.
In 1893 AD, the Keelung-Hsinchu railway was completed. At that time, Hsinchu Station was located at the foot of Pillow Mountain, called "Hsinchu Train Box Office"; in the early Meiji period, the Japanese Railway Team began to modify the old routes in view of the winding and snake-like railways built during the Qing Dynasty. The Hsinchu Station was called Hsinchu parking lot at this time, and was made of simple wood. After the railway was opened to traffic in 1908, the "Hsinchu Post" (i.e. Hsinchu Railway Station) began to be built and was officially completed in 1913.
in the old photos Hsinchu Post (1923 "Hingqi Memorial Photo Post") Hsinchu Railway Station, which is still in operation, is currently under the jurisdiction of the Taiwan Railway Administration. It passes through the vertical line and the Inner Bay Line, and passes through the five cities of Taipei, Taizhong, Kaohsiung, Taitung, and Hualien. In February 2007, the Taiwan High-speed Railway was officially opened. In addition to taking the train to Hsinchu, people can also take the Hsinchu High-speed Railway Hsinchu Station to the neighboring city, participate in folk festivals such as Lantern Festival, City God Circle Activities, and experience the cultural customs of Hsinchu Fengcheng.
Passing trains: See the official website of Taiwan Railway Administration http://www.railway.gov.tw/hsinchu/
2. Jilin West Station: The dignified and elegant Gothic outdoor location
is located in Jilin West Station in northeast China. It is a large Gothic steeplet building. It is not large in scale and covers an area of only 897 square meters. However, as one of the successful masterpieces of the combination of Chinese and Western styles in the history of modern architecture in my country, it has not only become the pride of Jilin people, but also a "perfect venue" favored by film and television works: From the 1980s to the present, many film and television dramas in the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan during the Republic of China and the Anti-Japanese War have used this station as a shooting site, and famous movie stars and directors such as Liu Songren, Andy Lau, Wu Qianlian, Liu Xiaoqing, Fang Shu, and Pan Changjiang have come to Jilin for filming. The main building of the station is a square stone structure, the roof is a folded wooden structure, with glazed tiles and mural decorations inside. The height of the bell tower spiral is 29 meters above the ground, and there are spiral wooden steps inside the tower. You can look down at the top of the tower. The standing house is like a lion sitting lying on the silhouette, which means that the lion of the Chinese people has just woken up. The lion's tail is cleverly designed as a bell tower. The whole building has a unique shape and a dignified and elegant temperament. The station building is generally considered to be designed by Lin Huiyin and approved by Liang Sicheng. In recent years, there are also opinions that the main designer is W. X. Chai. The station building is basically intact, and the architectural style is very similar to that of Jinan Station of Jinpu Railway. Whether there is any other connection between the two remains to be verified.
1912, Japan was eyeing the Northeast China Railway. In order to seize the right to build the Jihui Railway, they took the lead in borrowing to build the airport railway. In 1922, Zhang Zuolin became the Northeast Security Commander, immediately declared Northeast Autonomy, and decided to build the Jihai Railway (now the Jilin West Station) to get rid of the obstacles and interference of the Japanese in their military transportation.Zhang Zuo, who was the governor and governor of Jilin at that time, immediately implemented this plan: the province raised funds, designed and organized construction by itself. In June 1929, the entire Jihai Railway was completed and opened to traffic.
Jilin West Station is still in operation today. This station is a second-class freight station under the jurisdiction of Shenyang Railway Bureau. It travels between Jilin and Dunhua, and the Shenji Railway will also pass through here. At the same time, Jilin West Station is also a container logistics base of Shenyang Bureau, mainly providing fast cargo transportation services for Jilin Petrochemical, Chenming Paper, Jilin Carbon, Jilin Chemical Fiber and other enterprises. It has become the only inland port container office station in Jilin City, and can send 100,000 standard containers per year.
Passing trains: 2223, 2224, 4237, 4239, 4361, 4362, 4389, 4390, K215, K216, K7369, K7370, K7373, K7374, K7375, K7376, K7388, K7390, K76, T271, T272, T5315, K75
3. Inner Mongolia Alshan Railway Station: It is known as the "smallest and most beautiful" Arshan Railway Station in China, and is stationed near Xinglin Road in the southern part of Alshan, Inner Mongolia. Under the sunshine, you can see a layer of dazzling golden light shrouded on the platform. The bright and warm colors and the clean and simple platform make people wonder if they have come to the Swiss rural town. This Oriental-style low-eaves and spire-topped two-story Japanese-style building has been welcoming and sending it on its own in the wind and rain, and embracing every traveler with open arms. Its beauty embodies the mellowness of time, small and exquisite, and intoxicating.
There are too many legendary stories about Aershan Railway Station in Inner Mongolia. Similar to many exotic railways in China, the initiator of the station building was the Japanese invaders who captured Inner Mongolia in the 1930s and committed heinous crimes here. On one side of the station, there is a semicircular spire bunker. From a distance, it looks like a "grain trough" in the countryside. The Baia Line of the railway where Arshan Station is located was originally built for the Japanese invaders to plunder local mineral resources. The Arshan Third Platform back then was undoubtedly the best witness of that era of war. As time goes by, the scenes of the turmoil in the past have been obscured in history. Today, as Taiwan’s most representative “landscape railway”, Alshan Railway Station has restored tranquility and silence.
Most of the time, few tourists visit Alshan Station, and even Alshan National Forest Park, which is not far away, is only crowded by tourists who come to visit in summer and autumn. For devout railway fans, Alshan Railway Station is undoubtedly "the most beautiful railway station in China." Perhaps their judgment is correct. Take the retro green train to walk through Alshan and enjoy the charming scenery along the way: blue sky, clear water and green mountains, you will find that the light of Alshan Station is enough to light up this spiritual land where forests and lakes are densely packed.
Today, the entire railway station is well preserved and still in use, and is a key cultural relic in Inner Mongolia. This is also the terminal station of the Baia Line. The train starts in Alshan, with the finish line in Ulanhot, passing through Baicheng and Shenyang.
Passengers: 6342
4. Liaoning Lushun Railway Station: The most complete European-style platform in China
was built in 1898. The Lushun Railway Station has been vicissitudes of life for a century. It still stands poetically and picturesquely at the confluence of the western part of the Baiyu Mountain Scenic Area in Lushun, Dalian City and the confluence of the Long River estuary. This unique wooden building has the most complete European-style platform in China. Looking around, the straw hat-shaped oval spire is hung with feather-like tiles, and the exquisite details are full of exotic charm. The Russian-style white walls and green windows stand on each other.
History and architecture are inseparable. Lushun Station under the setting sun, as an insider of history, is like a picture album full of stories, passing through the long river of time and turning pages of old stories to the world. In 1898, Tsarist Russia occupied Lushun and began to expand the military port and pave the railway. When inspecting the location of the railway station, it was originally planned to be in Sun Gully, but later, for the needs of military transportation, it was selected as the terminal station of the South Manchuria Railway branch. On July 14, 1903, Lushun Station was put into operation. After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the railway was taken over by the Japanese army and the railway tracks were changed from narrow rails to standard rails.After Japan surrendered, the Soviet army took over the station again and implemented the Sino-Soviet battalion. It was not until December 1952 that the Chinese government officially took over the station.
Because Lushun Railway Station has great reference value in the research of architectural history, it was listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit in 1985. As the most complete European-style train station along the Northeast Railway, it has transported two trains to Dalian for a long time: 6331 and 6332. Unfortunately, due to various reasons, since April 20, 2014, these two trains will no longer operate. The sharp decline in passenger flow and the market segmentation of multiple modes of transportation are the main reasons why this century-old train exits the historical stage. From then on, taking the slow European-style old train to Lushun will become an eternal memory.
Travel passes: None (Abandoned)
5. Nanjing Pukou Railway Station: A witness to the memory of the Republic of China
Do you still remember the farewell station in "Deep Love in the Rain"? It really exists in Nanjing on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The plot of Zhu Ziqing's father climbing over the platform in "Back View" also happens here. Nanjing Pukou Railway Station is connected with the deep feelings for the Republic of China. Because it is the only railway station in the country that has preserved the characteristics of the Republic of China in a relatively complete manner, it has become a film and television shooting base with the Republic of China as the background, and was included in the list of the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 2013.
Pukou Railway Station was built by Mr. Wang Zuoqing, a national capitalist in Nanjing from 1908 to 1914. Although it has been a hundred years now and the surface has become mottled, the style of the past can still be seen, with a strong English style: a pointed ridge, high and narrow windows, and a red roof cast in iron. The main building of the station is only three floors, which is really not tall. But the yellow building and the red roof have a magnificent and natural feeling. The main building faces north and south, with high and narrow windows, ridges on the roof, and is covered with corrugated iron; the inside of the building is made of wooden structure, with an arch-shaped corridor on the west end of the ground floor, directly to the Pukou Ferry Terminal.
Pukou Railway Station is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River in Nanjing. It was built in 1914. It is the only railway entrance to Beijing during the Republic of China period. It is the southern terminal of the Jinpu Railway and is a key transportation hub in the north and south and a must-fight for military strategists. There are countless celebrity anecdotes that happened here: In 1918, Zhu Ziqing went to Beijing to study, said goodbye to his father at Pukou Railway Station, and wrote the famous prose "Back View"; in 1927, Guo Moruo crossed the river at Pukou Railway Station and went to Nanchang to find revolutionary comrades; in 1929, Sun Yat-sen's coffin was transported from Beijing to Pukou Railway Station; in 1949, Deng Xiaoping and Chen Yi arrived at Pukou Railway Station from Hefei, crossed the river that night, drove into the Presidential Palace, and Nanjing was liberated from then on... From the end of the 20th century to the early 21st century, Pukou Railway Station attracted a large number of film and television crews to shoot outdoor scenes, and appeared many times in many film and television dramas such as "Sun Yat-sen", "Deep Love in the Rain", and "The Golden Fen Family".
As a witness to the memory of the Republic of China, countless wonderful stories have been staged here. Now the play has ended, leaving silent rails sobbing in the wind.
Travel times: None (Abandoned)
6. Heilongjiang Hengdaohezi Railway Station: Russian castle in Western painting
is located in Hengdaohezi, Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province. It is a century-old ancient town. A century ago, the place was occupied by Russia, and the Soviets left too many marks here, including the Middle East Railway - today's Hengdao Hezi Railway Station. In 1900, after the completion of the Hengdao River section of the Middle East Railway, it was named "Hengdaohezi Station". In 1903, the large locomotive garage inside the station was officially completed. It was used as a locomotive garage until the 1990s and was the hub of the Middle East Railway. It was not until the last steam locomotive was out of service that the locomotive garage began to become empty.
Railway Station is built on the other side of the locomotive garage, presenting a typical Russian architectural art style. The Gothic roof is painted with brick red paint, which at first glance looks like an orange newspaper in a fairy tale. On the goose yellow brick house with white edges, chimneys are neatly arranged. Around the garage, two brick red towers stand on both sides, unique and eye-catching. Under the distant mountains, people feel inexplicably happy.Against the backdrop of the blue sky, white clouds and green mountains, the railway station is like an oil painting, playing a literary and artistic role in this peaceful and quiet town.
located in the Yorksk Church in the station is the only remaining wooden church after St. Nicholas Church in Harbin. The yellow-green church stands back and two typical Russian-style onion tops, the logs are closely tied together, making them look very strong. The hall has been rearranged, with white gray on the walls and photos and portraits hung. The door frames and window frames are sky blue.
As a station along the Binsui Railway, Hengdaohezi Station is now under the jurisdiction of the Mudanjiang Railway Branch of the Harbin Railway Bureau. A total of 16 passenger trains pass by, passing through Qitaihe, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Bei'an, Wenzhou, Yimpo, Suifenhe, Dalian and other places.
Passing trains: K7226, K7112, K7110, K7053, K554, K552, 6218, 6217, 2728, 2727, 2051
7. Wuhan Dazhimen Railway Station: The most dazzling highlight of the Beijing-Hanzhou Railway
, known as the "most beautiful old station in Wuhan", is located near the station road of Jinghan Avenue, Hankou. It is the first large station in China's long-distance quasi-rail railway - the southernmost end of the Jinghan Railway. The station building faces west and east, and when it was built, it faced the Consular Street (west section of Station Road) in the French Concession in Hankou, forming a strong scene-confrontation effect.
Railway Station was designed by French engineers. The basic facilities of the station draw on the facilities configuration of mature European stations. In terms of building appearance, it reflects the medieval style of Germany. The building plane is in a horizontal sub-shaped shape and protrudes in the middle. The facade is formed by protruding in the middle and at both ends, and a 20-meter-high tower fort is built at the four corners of the middle; the top of the fort is cast iron, with a streamlined square cone. Set symmetrically from left to right in five sections. The walls, windows, eaves and other parts are decorated with sculptures.
In 1902, Zhang Zhidong, who was obsessed with the Westernization Movement, submitted a memorial to the court on the establishment of the imperial court's "Railway Corporation", which included the plan to build a railway station near Dazhimen, Hankou. Finally, after several years of careful construction, the earliest railway station in Hankou, Dazhimen Railway Station, stood in Hankou, Wuhan. At the beginning of the 20th century, this most majestic and modern railway station in Asia at that time was regarded as the most dazzling highlight of the entire Beijing-Hanzhou Railway.
Station was built and the train was opened. The appearance of Hankou also changed. The Xiakou County Chronicle records that "Houhu built a dike, reeds and Han connected the rails, the situation changed every year, and every inch of land in the town was valuable." During the Anti-Japanese War, the Dazhimen Railway Station met in a storm: On the afternoon of September 17, 1937, the commander of the 9th Army Hao Mengling went north from here to fight against Japan. He fought for the bloody battle and finally returned with a horse and a body; in the spring of 1938, Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army and a horse-ridden horse, came to Wuhan here; in the Battle of Taierzhuang, Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army, died for his country, and his coffin was transported to Wuhan via the Dazhimen Station. These past events have written pages of historical chapters for the old station.
Today's Dazhimen Railway Station has become a historical trace. The century-old station building is like a deep-burned daughter. The longer it is, the more fragrant it becomes, the more it is. On the Jinghan Avenue where traffic flows, it has become a landmark building in the Old Hankou, full of urban memory and glory. On June 25, 2001, Dazhimen Railway Station, as an important historical site and representative building in modern times, was approved by the State Council to include the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Travels: None (Abandoned)
