Beijingxi (Beijing West) railway station (Chinese: 北京西站; pinyin: Běijīngxī Zhàn), colloquially referred to as West Station (Chinese: 西客站), is located in western Beijing's Fengtai District.

For the third time, in 1989, the preparatory work, adjustment planning, and re-reporting were resumed and finally approved by the state.

It was a key project in China's eighth five-year plan with a total investment of 6.5 billion yuan.

As early as the 1950s, the concept of building the second passenger-railway station for Beijing and the underground diameter line had been formed.

The Beijing Municipal Government has correspondingly reserved land for the lotus pond that was still in the suburbs in the urban master plan.

However, due to the reduction in the scale of construction during the three-year difficult period, the planning has not made much progress.

However, the political situation changed again soon after, affected by the "Counterattack the Right-Deviationist Reversal-of-Verdicts Trend" in 1976, and the site plan was shelved without approval.

The team members once climbed the Xiaotu Mountain on the north bank of the lotus pond to get an overview of the local area.

Due to the dry season at that time and the excessive extraction of groundwater in the lotus pond area over the years, more than 20 hectares of ponds were dried up, overgrown with weeds, and deserted; the design team believed that this area did not occupy arable land and there would be less demolition, which was in line with the plan and saved money.

After the meeting, the group forwarded the site selection opinions to the Beijing Municipal Government for comments.

Those three stations have not been expanded on a large scale for more than 30 years, and the passenger volume of the Beijing area has increased four-fold from 1970 to 1988.

In March of the same year, the Beijing Municipal Government led the establishment of the "Beijing West Railway Station Preliminary Working Group", which convened a number of design institutes with certain strengths across the country to conduct an architectural design competition.

At the same time, with the approval of the State Council, the pre-relocation works for the construction of the Beijing West station were launched during 1989.

Involving the Xibianmen Goods Yard of Guang'anmen railway station and many factories and residential areas at Beijing West, the process had been large, difficult, and costly.

On 30 September 1990, the Beijing Municipal Government, the Ministry of Railways, and the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications submitted to the State Planning Commission the document "On the basis of the revised plan for the Beijing West Railway Station", and proposed an investment of 2 billion yuan.

In March 1991, the State Council formally approved the design specification of the Beijing West station.

For this reason, Beijing West Railway Station needs to carry out the largest reconstruction since its construction.

There is a patio in the elevated waiting room between the second and ninth platforms, adding an elevated waiting space of 6,600 square meters; adding paper magnetic card ticket making machines, automatic ticket machines and necessary network equipment; adding the second floor of the South Station Ticket Center Transformed into a VIP area; and opened up the south exit of the east and west outbound passages, so that passengers can directly access the South Square transportation hub.

The renovation project of the elevated waiting room was originally planned to start in early April 2012.

Due to the inconvenience caused by the platform of the column, the renovation project of the elevated waiting room was finally cancelled, and the existing waiting room resources were used to allocate the passenger flow of the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Passenger Dedicated Line.

It is the Beijing terminal for most trains leaving the city for destinations in western and southwestern China, including Xi'an, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lhasa and Urumqi.

High-speed trains leave the station for Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as well as various destinations on the connecting lines, such as Taiyuan and Xi'an.