Guaan Zhuang station

Guaan Zhuang station[1][lower-alpha 1] (simplified Chinese: 管庄站; traditional Chinese: 管莊站; pinyin: Guǎnzhuāng zhàn) is a station on Batong line of the Beijing Subway, and is located in the Guanzhuang area (管庄地区) of Chaoyang District.

For the 关庄 (guānzhuāng) station on Line 15, see Guanzhuang station (line 15).
Guaan Zhuang[1]

管庄
LocationGuanzhuang, Chaoyang District, Beijing
China
Coordinates39.9092°N 116.5990°E / 39.9092; 116.5990
Operated byBeijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp., Ltd
Line(s)     Ba Tong line
Platforms2 (2 side platforms)
Tracks2
History
OpenedDecember 27, 2003
Services
Preceding station   Beijing Subway   Following station
towards Si Hui
Ba Tong line
towards Hua Zhuang
Location
Guaan Zhuang[1]
Location in Beijing

In future, it will be a transfer station with Line 22 (Pinggu line) in short-term planning.

Installation of automatic platform gate
Guanzhuang Station platform screen doors

Officially launched on August 9, 2012,[2] the installation of automatic platform gates on the station was finished on September 2012.[3]

Name conflict

This station has the same English name as a station on Line 15, also part of the Beijing Subway system. In Chinese this is not a problem as the station on Line 15 is called 关庄 and one on the Batong Line is called 管庄, but the government policy in China is to create English names from the pinyin transliteration of Chinese language, but without the tone markers; thus 关庄 (guānzhuāng) and 管庄 (guǎnzhuāng) are both rendered as Guanzhuang, making them look identical. In December 2019, the 管庄 (guǎnzhuāng) station on Batong line changed spelling to Guaan Zhuang.[1]

Guanzhuang Station (bottom), taken from Tongzhou district.

Station Layout
2F
Side platform, doors open on the right
Westbound ←      Ba Tong line towards Si Hui (Shuang Qiao)
Eastbound →      Ba Tong line towards Hua Zhuang (Ba Li Qiao) →
Side platform, doors open on the right
G Concourse Faregates, Station Agent
Entrances and Exits Exits A-B
B1 Underpass

Notes
  1. According to new system map of Beijing Subway starting 2019-12-28. Changed in order to avoid confusion, which is influenced by Gwoyeu Romatzyh. See: [1]

References
  1. "JPG格式线路图下载". 北京地铁官方网站. Retrieved 2019-12-27.
  2. (Chinese) 13号线、八通线加装屏蔽门工程试点站已于近日开工. Beijing Subway. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
  3. (Chinese) 八通线、13号线试点站屏蔽门安装主体工程完工. Beijing Subway. September 28, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
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