China News Service, Beijing, October 2 (Reporter Jia Tianyong) On September 29, 2024, the Beijing-Tianjin intercity railway Yizhuang Station was put into trial operation and officially opened for operation on October 1. The fastest time from Beijing South Railway Station to Yizhuang Station is 10 minutes, and the fastest time from Yizhuang Station to Tianjin Station is 25 minutes. The passenger flow is mainly commuter flow and tourist flow, which brings great convenience to passengers in Beijing and Tianjin and effectively shortens the time and space distance between Beijing and Tianjin. The reporter learned from the National Railway Beijing Bureau that as of September 30 this year, in the past two years, Yizhuang Station has sent a total of 1.578 million passengers and 1.68 million arriving passengers. On average, it has sent more than 4,400 arriving passengers every day. The transportation is safe, stable and orderly.
As a "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on-rail" hub node, Yizhuang Station takes advantage of its location to serve the overall coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei. With the core of smoothing transportation connections, optimizing passenger services, and empowering regional linkage, it continues to increase transportation capacity, improve functional facilities, and upgrade convenient services. It continues to transform transportation advantages into high-quality regional development advantages with safety, efficiency, and warmth.
Over the past two years, the station has closely followed the actual demand for commuter and tourist passenger flows, and has continued to dynamically optimize its capacity layout. The number of train pairs has increased from 6 pairs per day in the initial period of opening to 12 pairs, with 12 trains each heading to Beijing and Tianjin. The capacity has doubled, which has greatly alleviated the pressure on passenger travel during peak periods. It covers multiple major commuting periods, fully meets passenger travel needs, and serves regional economic and social development and passenger travel with high quality.
While improving the quality and efficiency of its transportation capacity, Yizhuang Station insists on being passenger-centered, continues to iteratively upgrade service software and hardware, creates a high-quality passenger transport window, and strives to ensure safe, efficient and comfortable travel for passengers. Relying on the comprehensive service center, the station integrates ticketing, consultation, JETCO card processing, public security certificate issuance, key assistance and other integrated services to achieve "one-stop processing" of passenger business. Comprehensively implement multiple convenient ticket systems such as Beijing-Tianjin intercity tickets, commuter tickets, and intra-city cards to best meet the travel needs of high-frequency commuters in the twin cities. At the same time, the station continues to open up the "last mile" of travel, deepens road-ground linkage, realizes seamless connections between railways and subways, buses, taxis, and online ride-hailing, optimizes passenger flow diversion and transfer connections, and builds a multi-level, three-dimensional comprehensive transportation system, which greatly improves passenger transfer efficiency and travel comfort.
The 2026 railway Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday transportation period is from September 23 to October 8, lasting 16 days. The number of passengers arriving and departing from Yizhuang Station is expected to reach 102,000. The station comprehensively inspects equipment and facilities in advance, carries out in-depth cleaning, smoothes access to and from the station, and provides convenient and warm travel services to make the passenger experience better. On the morning of October 1st, Yizhuang Station organized National Day activities and second anniversary activities in the waiting room, and distributed small flags to passengers. Passengers wrote their best wishes in front of the display board and checked in to take photos. (over)
