Dashatou railway station

Dashatou Railway Station (Chinese: 大沙头站; pinyin: Dàshātóu zhàn), formerly known as Guangjiu Railway Station (广九站), was originally located at the southern end of Baiyun Road, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.

[1][2] At the end of the 19th century, when Hong Kong had become a British colony, the Hong Kong Government began to propose to the Qing Government a Kowloon-Guangzhou railway construction plan to facilitate the rapid transportation of goods and personnel to the Guangdong market.

[7][8] According to the draft agreement, the Canton-Kowloon Railway is planned to build 121 miles, bounded by the Luohu Bridge in Shenzhen (then actually Xin'an County) and divided into English and Chinese sections.

[13][14][15][16] Dashatou is located in the southeast corner of Guangzhou, that is, east of Dongguan Mountain south foot.

[9][17] On 21 March 1922, General Deng Keng, chief of staff of the Guangdong Revolutionary Army, returned from Hong Kong to Guangzhou by train.

One day in the summer of the same year, Sun Yat-sen came to Guangjiu Station and took a train to Shilong, 50 kilometers away, to command the battle against Chen Jiongming.

[23] In 1940, in order to expand the Tianhe Airport, the invading Japanese army demolished the 3 km line between Dongshan (Meihua Village) and Shibaigan on the Canton-Kowloon Railway.

[27][28][29] By the end of 1940s, although Guangzhou had developed southward to the present location of Leijiao Village, but the other directions basically did not extend.

Every festival also need to borrow the road in front of the station to build temporary cars and travel sheds.

In June 1962, tens of thousands of people gathered around the railway station to buy train tickets to Pingshan and Shenzhen.

The high-ranking officials behind held internal meetings, Tao Zhu defined it as the so-called enemy-friend contradiction, which led to the decision to dispatch the army.

[41] By 6 June, the authorities had dispatched a battalion of heavily armed PLA soldiers to block both ends of the station and drive the crowd out.

[57] The park has a construction-type 6501 steam locomotive and a YZ22 passenger car, as well as tracks, traffic lights and archway views of the old station.