Qinghe railway station
railway station in Haidian, Beijing, China (for the metro station, see Q105064164)
Qinghe railway station (Chinese: 清河站; pinyin: Qīnghé zhàn) is a railway station in Beijing. The old station's construction began in 1905 and opened in 1906. The station closed on October 31, 2016, to be rebuilt into a new high-speed railway station on the Beijing-Baotou Passenger-Dedicated Line opened on December 30, 2019.
The new station occupies an area of 146,000 m2 (1,570,000 sq ft), and the waiting hall is nearly 23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft). It has four island platforms and eight railway lines, including two main lines (screen doors are set on the main line platforms). The station together with Beijing North railway station is the terminal of Beijing–Zhangjiakou intercity railway, which was the vital supporting infrastructure of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
History
The old Qinghe railway station was a third-class station positioned 20km from the start of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway. The station began construction in 1905 and was completed in 1906. The building was a single-floor, wood and brick construction, the floor area was 336 square meters and combined both Chinese and western architecture styles.
On September 8, 1912, the first president of the Provisional Government of the Republic of China Dr.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Qinghe railway station” as railway station in Haidian, Beijing, China (for the metro station, see Q105064164). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q728992. Authority coordinates are 40.040, 116.309. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1905, 1906, 2016 and 2019.
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