Beijing closes railway station for major reconstruction project
27/4/2006 17:12
Beijing's southern railway station will close in mid-May when work begins
to turn it into a terminus serving high-speed trains.
All the trains to and
from the Beijing South Railway Station will be allocated to three other stations
in the city from May 8, officials from the Beijing Railway Bureau told the
Beijing News on Thursday.
The city will invest 6.3 billion yuan (US$787.5
million) in the reconstruction project that is due to be completed in
2007.
The station will cover an area of 26,000 square meters, the second
largest in Beijing after the Beijing West Railway Station, when the project
concludes in 2007.
It will have 13 platforms and 24 rails, and function as
the starting station of the inner-city line between Beijing and Tianjin and the
Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway.
The new station will be 500 meters from
its original location.
The Beijing South Railway Station was built in 1958.
It currently runs mainly slow trains on the Beijing-Guangdong
line.
Xinhua
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