Introduction to Qianmen Old Railway Station: The official name of Qianmen Old Railway Station is "Zhengyangmen East Station". The station is located in the southeast corner of Tiananmen Square. It is a European-style building and was first built in 1901 (the 27th year of Guangxu). Completed in 1906, it has a history of more than 100 years. The station has a building area of 3,500 square meters, three platforms in the station, a length of 377 meters, and a waiting room with a total area of 1,500 square meters. It was the largest railway station and transportation hub in the country at that time. .
Since then, the building has gone through different historical stages from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China, the Beiyang government, the Japanese and puppet rule, the Kuomintang rule, and the founding of New China. The station names range from Zhengyangmen East Station, Qianmen Station, Beiping Station, and Beiping East Station. To Beijing Station, it has experienced many changes. On September 15, 1959, the new Beijing Station opened for operation. The old Qianmen Railway Station ended its historical mission as a railway station and was successively transformed into the Science and Technology Museum of the Ministry of Railways, the Beijing Railway Workers Cultural Palace, a theater, and the old station mall. In 2001 On July 12, the old station site was opened as the "Beijing Railway Museum" as a "Beijing Cultural Relics Protection Unit".