Railway Museum

Its predecessor is the old Qianmen railway station, also known as Zhengyangmen east station. The building is located in the southeast corner of Tiananmen Square. It is a European style building. It was built in 1901 (27th year of Guangxu) and completed in 1906. It has a history of more than 100 years.

After its completion, Qianmen old railway station became the largest railway station in China 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 puppet rule, the Kuomintang rule to the founding of new China. The station name has evolved from Zhengyangmen east station, Qianmen station, Beiping station, Beiping east station to Beijing station for many times. Until September 15, 1959, the new Beijing station was put into operation, The building fulfilled its historic mission as a railway station

Address: A2 Qianmen Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing (opposite the southeast corner of Zhengyangmen)

Longitude: 116.39804077148

Latitude: 39.898029327393

Tel: 010-67051638