Beijing Fengtai Station Looks Fancy as Ever, Slated to Open by Year's End

Vincent R. Vinci, Contributing Editor | Apr 15, 2022 11:10 am | Add a comment | 327 reads

You might’ve noticed a fancy new train station making the rounds in Chinese papers and the web over the past few days. This is the revamped Beijing Fengtai Station, which, interestingly enough, is also one of the capital’s oldest train stations.

Be that as it may, this new incarnation of Fengtai Station is a far cry from its 1898 predecessor. While the original, which served freight and passenger trains until it’s conversion to freight only in 2010, was just your run of the mill train station, the new Fengtai Zhan is planned as the city's next state-of-the-art transportation hub.

This new station is pretty big as well. The total land area spans 125 hectacres, and the main station house is over 400,000 square meters, according to China Daily.

As a transportation hub, Fengtai will have a subway station on Line 10 – open as of this week – which connects riders directly to the station. From there, they’ll be able to take either slow or high-speed trains on the station’s double decker tracks (all those square meters being put to good use!) far and wide.

Trains will travel to a number of places, connecting Beijing to Shijiazhuang in Hebei, Wuhan in Hubei, Zhengzhou in Henan, and even cities down south like Guangzhou.

Construction on the new Fengtai Zhan began back in 2018, and the station is expected to be completed and open to the public by the end of this year.