I caught a high speed train from the Beijing South Railway Station for a weekend trip to a beach town called Qin Huang Dao. At that time I really didn’t know but according to Wikipedia:
- The terminus occupies a 32-hectare (79-acre) site
- Designed by British architecture firm TFP Farrells in collaboration with the Tianjin Design Institute
- Built from more than 60,000 tons of steel and 490,000 cubic metres (17,304,000 cu ft) of concrete by 4,000 workers in less than three years
- Glass ceiling is outfitted with 3,246 solar panels to generate electricity
- Structure spreads out like a ray or trilobite and covers 320,000 square metres (3,444,000 sq ft)
- 24 platforms with the capacity to dispatch 30,000 passengers per hour or almost 241 million a year
- The 251,000-square-metre (2,702,000 sq ft) waiting area can accommodate 10,000 passengers
In some countries, this would be actually considered larger than a domestic airport.
For more information:
Leave a Reply