Xinghuo railway station

Xinghuo railway station (Chinese: 星火站; pinyin: Xīnghuǒ Zhàn) is a railway station in Beijing.

Xinghuo

星火

New Xinghuo railway station under construction in June 2020
LocationChaoyang District, Beijing
China
Coordinates39°56′50″N 116°30′29″E
Line(s)
Other information
Station code
  • 12161 (TMIS code)
  • XUP (telegram code)
  • XHU (pinyin code)
Classification2nd class station
History
Opened1968 (Old Railway Station)
2020 (New Railway Station)[2]
2022 (Line 3 of Beijing Subway)[1]
Services
Preceding station   China Railway High-speed   Following station
TerminusBeijing–Shenyang High-Speed Railway
Part of the Beijing–Harbin High-Speed Railway
Shunyi West
towards Shenyang
China Railway
towards Beijing
Beijing–Baotou Railway
towards Baotou
Location
Xinghuo
Location in central Beijing

History

The railway station is named after the Xinghuo People's commune[3] (Chinese: 星火人民公社) (now Liulitun Subdistrict), and the Xinghuo People's commune is named after a famous article written by Mao Zedong, A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire[4] (Chinese: 星星之火，可以燎原), and its name literally means Star Sparkle.

Description

Xinghuo railway station is a small freight station with no passenger train services.

It will be the starting point of the Beijing–Shenyang high-speed railway.[2][5]

Beijing Subway

The under construction Line 3 of Beijing Subway will serve the railway station.

References
  1. "轨道交通3号线一期东坝车辆段实现进场围挡". 2019-01-07. 3号线一期工程计划于2022年底完工
  2. "京沈高铁星火站年内开建 计划2020年年底竣工". 2018-09-13.
  3. 刘春瑞 (2013-08-03). "47岁的星火站". 新京报. 源于车站当时所在的星火人民公社。后来星火公社改回六里屯乡，车站仍保留了这个名字
  4. "A SINGLE SPARK CAN START A PRAIRIE FIRE". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  5. http://www.ecns.cn/2013/08-02/75798.shtml "Beijing to Shenyang in 2 hours"
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