Beijing railway station

Beijing Station

北京火车站
China Railway
China Railway High-speed
Beijing railway station in May 2021
General information
LocationBeijingzhan Jie, Dongcheng District, Beijing
China
Coordinates39°54′10″N 116°25′41″E / 39.902896°N 116.42792°E / 39.902896; 116.42792
Operated byChina Railway CR Beijing
Beijing Subway Beijing Subway
Line(s)
ConnectionsBus terminal
Other information
Station code
  • Telegraph code: BJP
  • Pinyin code: BJI
  • TMIS code: 10001
ClassificationTop Class station
History
OpenedChina Railway October 4, 1959; 65 years ago (1959-10-04)
Beijing Subway January 15, 1971; 53 years ago (1971-01-15)
Location
Beijing Station is located in Beijing
Beijing Station
Beijing Station
Location in central Beijing
Beijing Station is located in Beijing
Beijing Station
Beijing Station
Beijing Station (Beijing)
Beijing Station is located in China
Beijing Station
Beijing Station
Beijing Station (China)

Beijing railway station, or simply Beijing station, 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 Though superseded by the larger Beijing West and Beijing South stations, this station remains the only one located inside the old walled city.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 northeast China (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 the Republic of Mongolia depart from this station. Some international lines (notably the railway line linking Beijing to Moscow and to Pyongyang, North Korea (DPRK), amongst others), also depart from this station.

Beijing railway station used to be the eastern terminus of Beijing Subway's Line 1 until 1987, when the station became part of Line 2. More than 30 Beijing bus and trolleybus routes stop at or near the railway station.