The China Railway Museum spread across two sites in Beijing is the best known railway museum in China, but there is a smaller one hiding on the south-west suburbs of Beijing – the ‘Subway Culture Park’.
It features a retired Beijing Subway BD1 train on display – carriages T1326 and T1321.
The carriages are locked up so you can’t headed inside.
But you can get up close to the coupler.
And there is also a section of concrete lined subway tunnel on display.
Chinese language Wikipedia detailing the history of the park.
On November 5, 2010, the Metro Cultural Park was opened to the public free of charge. The Metro Cultural Park is bounded by the Beijing Fifth Ring Road to the south, the Xihongmen planned South Ring Road to the north, Xinghua North Road to the east, and Guogongzhuang Road to the west.
It covers an area of 19 hectares and displays the Beijing Subway through pictures, display walls, carriages and other exhibits. development path. There is a map square in the Subway Cultural Park, which displays the Beijing subway vision plan to 2015.
A large number of Beijing’s native tree species and other flowers and trees are planted in the park; such as ginkgo biloba, Chinese red pine, oriental plane, cherry blossom and staghorn sumac trees.
The park is located south of Xihong Men Station on the Beijing Metro Daxing Line (an extension of Line 4) – but at 20 kilometres from central Beijing and the sparse collection of items on display, I can’t see much reason for a foreign railfan to visit the park.
Further reading
- Location on Baidu Maps
- Subway Culture Park at Wikipedia (Chinese language)
- Beijing Metro BD1 train at Wikipedia (Chinese language)
That’s a rather symbolic display for the theme, just like the A2 class locomotive in Edward Lake Park.