Beijing Fengtai railway station
railway station in Beijing, China (for the metro station, see Q105072002)
Beijing Fengtai railway station (Chinese: 北京丰台站; pinyin: Běijīng Fēngtái zhàn) is a railway station located in the Fengtai District of Beijing. It was renamed from Fengtai railway station to Beijing Fengtai railway station in 2021. The new railway station opened on 20 June 2022.
The new railway station is served by both high-speed and conventional-speed railways, including Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway, Beijing–Guangzhou railway. The station is the largest in Asia, with departure lounges, restaurants and other amenities spread across 400,000 square meters. At its peak, the station will be able to host 14,000 passengers per hour on a mix of bullet and regular trains as well as subway lines.
History
Construction on the original station began in 1895, and it was opened in 1896. Passenger services ceased on 19 June 2010. The station was closed in June 2010 in preparation for the construction of the new Fengtai railway station.
A metro station on Line 10 of the Beijing Subway was opened on 5 May 2013.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Beijing Fengtai railway station” as railway station in Beijing, China (for the metro station, see Q105072002). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Beijing, China (for the metro station, see Q105072002). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q130440. Authority coordinates are 39.850, 116.295. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2022, 1895 and 1896.
Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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This entry incorporates text from “Beijing Fengtai railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.