Near the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shijiazhuang new passenger station construction site, the workers are doing after the completion of the internal functional area. By the end of the year, the 100-year-old Shijiazhuang Railway Station will be completely relocated, and the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed train with a speed of 350 kilometers will also stop here. In the era of high use of the word "development", the "train-pulled city" constantly changed its background. As a native of Shijiazhuang, Fang Yanqi was also dazzled.

Fang Yanqi, 53, was born in a railway family. Grandpa is the first generation of “child drivers” (predecessors of the flight attendants) after the Shijiazhuang Railway. It was at the beginning of the 20th century that the Jing-Han Railway built by France and Belgium (now Beijing-Guangzhou Railway) and the Zhengtai Railway (present-day Shitai-Taiyuan Railway) met here. Shijiazhuang developed because of the station. It has an area of ​​less than 0.1 square kilometers and only More than 600 villages began to face the "jumping" of the city.

Fang Yan's train

“The job of a child boy is to clean the car, make a stove, and boil water. At that time, there was no ladder in the car, and the car boy had to carry a hand on the ladder and hang a hand-held lantern on the side of the car. He had to carry the wooden spikes with him. Let's be a bolt." Fang Yanyan described his grandfather's work and described it as "dreamlike".

Fang Yanqi is the daughter of the first batch of railway soldiers in New China. She has worked in the passenger section of Shijiazhuang for more than 30 years and is also an "old railway."

She clearly remembers that when she was a child, she was studying along the railway line and could always see her parents handcuffing the rails and repeating the dispatch order with the phone. The maintenance workers hung half of the steel rails on the tree. When the train entered the station, they banged and instructed the train to release.

In 1980, Fang Yanqi took part in the work as a flight attendant. At that time, Shijiazhuang still resembled an “enlarged rural village”: the old station was a two-story building of less than 200 square meters, and there was only a small hotel in front of the station. It looked like dust and sky, and there were bungalows and alleys everywhere. The entire passenger segment has only 12 pairs of green leather cars, but the speed is not more than 70 or 80 kilometers per hour. "The train swayed on the rails and looked at the domestic Shanghai car on the highway."

The Green Trolley, the Yellow Trolley, the Blue Trolley, the EMU, the High-speed Rail... The 30 years of Fang Yanji almost caught up with all the changes in the Chinese railway. "On July 1, 1996, the first yellow shuttle bus (tourist train) traveled from Shijiazhuang to Qinhuangdao, and the green car gradually withdrew from the historical stage; on July 1, 1998, the blue car (intercity train) was opened; The change took place on April 18, 2007. The first group of passenger trains in the Shijiazhuang passenger segment opened at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Shijiazhuang City and Beijing and Tianjin formed a two-hour living circle.”

The first female captain of the Shijiazhuang passenger section and the first captain of the EMU ... Fang Yanqi grew up with the Chinese train and felt the world outside the car. She expresses her emotions to facilitate accessible facilities for disabled people, as well as induction toilets and dryers. With the improvement of train garbage collection devices and the improvement of passengers’ civilization awareness, the two “white pollution” belts that used to be filled with lunch boxes and garbage bags along the railway lines have now disappeared.

Cities that "jump"

With the changes in the color and speed of trains, Shijiazhuang has also developed from the village "jumping" into one of the country's megacities. At present, Shijiazhuang is a hub city for railways and high-speed rails. The population size of urban areas in urban areas has reached 2.826 million. At the same time, it is an important center of medicine and textile industry in the country, and one of the important modern service and bio-industry bases. It is an important commercial port in North China.

Since the 1990s, the advantages of the Shijiazhuang South-North trade hub have emerged. Fang Yanji still remembers that “on the Shih Tak-line, business people with southern accents came to Shijiazhuang with snakeskin bags stuffed with clothing and shoes and socks; Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, and even former Soviet merchants who had come along the Shitai Railway. And then pull the goods back.” The famous Nan’nan three small commodity markets and Xinhua’s trade market sprouted around the train station and flourished.

Fang Yanji said that in the recent decade, Shijiazhuang has become more and more like a foreign city. What impressed her was that after the train opened, more and more people went shopping and traveling by train. On the weekends, people packed their bags and traveled to Beijing and Tianjin to shop. The “Two City Life” also began to emerge.

In 2012, Shijiazhuang stood at a new historical starting point. Before the end of the year, the Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed rail (Beijing-Shijiazhuang passenger line, Shiwu passenger line) will be open to traffic, and Shijiazhuang is fully integrated into the high-speed rail era. Not long ago, the "Shijiazhuang City Urban Rail Transit Construction Plan (2012-2020)" was approved in the country, indicating that the city will also enter the "Metropolis era."

The train carries a family's memory and carries the dream of the city. Now more people are hoping to come to Shijiazhuang. Fang Yanqi's 26-year-old daughter, Han Fang University, stayed here after graduation and became a railway worker. (Finish)

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