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Qianmen station (simplified Chinese: 前门站; traditional Chinese: 前門站; pinyin: Qiánmén zhàn) is a station on Line 2 and Line 8 of the Beijing Subway [1] located near Qianmen. Station layout
Today, Qianmen Avenue (Dajie) cuts between the Zhengyangmen gatehouse and the archery tower to the south. Line 2's Qianmen Station is also located between the two structures inside the space once surrounded by the barbican. Qianmen remains one of the enduring symbols of old Beijing. [citation needed]
Platform sign indicating inner loop Line 2 train (going in the clockwise direction) at the Xizhimen (Station No. 201). Because Line 2 is a loop line with no true terminus, trains are identified as either running on the inner loop (内环; nèihuán), going in the clockwise direction, or on the outer loop (外环; wàihuán), going in the counter-clockwise direction.
The Changba Connector contains three stations: Pingxifu, Yuzhilu and Zhuxinzhuang, and forms the northernmost section of Line 8. [17] The Changba Connector was designed to alleviate passenger traffic on Line 13 by allowing Changping Line riders heading to destinations in eastern Beijing to switch to Line 8 at Zhuxingzhuang instead of ...
Stations of Line 2 Code Station Chinese name Location Transfers Platform type Grade Opened — ↑ towards Jishuitan ↑ — 201 Xizhimen: 西直门: Xicheng 4 13 Huairou–Miyun Beijing North: Island Underground 20 September 1984 [3] 202 Chegongzhuang: 车公庄 6 Island Underground 203 Fuchengmen: 阜成门: Island Underground 204 Fuxingmen ...
This was the first time since the Ming dynasty that the city walls had been breached. In 1901 British troops tore down the eastern section of the Outer city walls at Yongdingmen to allow an extension of the railway eastwards to Zhengyangmen. This enabled the construction of the Zhengyangmen East railway station (the present Qianmen Station).
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Tram at Majiapu station in 1900 Tram on Qianmen Avenue in the 1930s. The earliest tram (Chinese: 有轨电车) service in Beijing dates back to 1899, and trams were the main form of public transit from 1924 to the late 1950s before they were replaced by trolleybuses that follow the tram routes they replaced. However new tram services are being ...