Pingsui Xizhimen Station Former Site

Visitor information

Also known as

平绥西直门车站旧址

City

Beijing

Coordinates

39.9452718, 116.3471615

About Pingsui Xizhimen Station Former Site

The former site of Pingsui Xizhimen Station is located at No. 1 Beibinhe Road, Xicheng District, Beijing. It was built in the first year of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty (1909). It is the only well-preserved station facility among the existing Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway station facilities. The old site of Pingsui Xizhimen Station currently has the station building (today’s waiting hall of Beijing North Railway Station), platforms, locomotive garages, staff dormitories, overpasses and other buildings, as well as ancillary buildings such as the locomotive depot office, general affairs room, operation room, dormitory, duty room, garage, turntable ruins, electric section signal work area, north throat bunker, East 1 platform and other ancillary buildings.

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