According to the official news of China Railway, as the largest railway hub passenger station in Asia, Beijing Fengtai station has met the operation conditions and will be officially opened soon! Beijing Fengtai Railway Station is located outside the Third Ring Road in the southwest of Beijing. It took three and a half years to build. It is the largest railway hub passenger station in Asia, with a construction area of nearly 400000 square meters, 1.2 times that of Beijing South Railway Station and twice that of the Forbidden City**
It is also the first large-scale station designed for a double deck depot in China and the first super large passenger station with overlapping high-speed and ordinary speed passenger depots. The scale of the depot is 17 sets and 32 lines . It adopts the layout of four floors above the ground and three floors below the ground. It can run high-speed rail on the top floor, ordinary speed on the ground and subway on the underground, and support rapid entry and seamless transfer.
The total steel consumption of the station is close to 200000 tons , 70000 welds have unique numbers, and the size, material and weight of each steel member can be traced.
In addition, a 496m long sunshine hall is set on the roof of the station building, and more than 200 light guide tubes reflect natural light to solve the lighting problem in the station. It can save 950000 kwh of power consumption every year, and is very fond of reducing carbon emissions by more than 900 tons.
In 1895, the Qing government built a new Jinlu railway and built a station in Fengtai at the end of the year. Fengtai station became the earliest railway station in Beijing. It was connected to Luhan railway in 1897 and the new Beijing Zhangjiakou Railway as the starting station in 1909. It became the intersection and connecting station of the three railway trunk lines.
In June 2010, the centenary station stopped passenger transport, luggage consignment and other businesses, transformed into a modern comprehensive transportation hub, and readjusted the layout of transportation capacity in the southwest of Beijing.
