In A.D. 1907, the Qing government sent a note to the British and German ambassadors to China, and appointed Yuan Shikai, the minister of supervision, to negotiate with the British and German banks on the construction of the Jin-Pu Railway. After five months of negotiations, this road was finally named China National Tianjin Pukou Railway, and the loan contract for Tianjin Pukou Railway was formally signed on 1908 13.
In August, 1908, the northern section of Jin-Pu Railway and the section from Tianjin to Xuzhou started construction. This is a great gospel of the fishing village Gudu Bengbu Collection. The closed, remote and backward rural environment and outlook will be shattered.
1September, 908, in order to survey the Huaihe Railway Bridge, a group of engineers and technicians in suits and ties, led by Ji Jie, the British chief engineer, set foot on the virgin land of Bengbu.
In fact, Deji chose the bridge site for this railway, but he didn't go to Bengbu at first. The southern section of this railway, from Xuzhou to Pukou, should be in a straight line from geographical common sense. The railway bridge across the Huaihe River is located in the lower reaches of the Five Rivers, but it is low-lying and historically a water town. Therefore, lin huai zhen in the middle reaches of Huaihe River is the first choice for the bridge site. However, the terrain of Linhuai Town also disappointed Deji. Deji had to take his engineers and technicians from Linhuai Pass to continue the search. After investigation and comparison, it is found that Bengbu economy located in the upper reaches of Linhuaiguan is more suitable. Of course, Deji doesn't want to choose Bengbu Gudu as a railway, let alone bring Bengbu Ji into the sight of building a bridge and opening to traffic. Instead, I took a fancy to the geographical conditions endowed by nature to Bengbu and Hebei on the south bank of Huaihe River after vicissitudes in the distant geological era, which can be used to build an iron bridge and open to traffic to the southeast through the south bank.
When Deji needed to finally mark the specific railway bridge location on the drawings, suddenly, a sparkling pearl beach in the afterglow of the sunset deeply attracted Deji's attention, and the beautiful scenery of Bengbu water droplets shocked his heart, while the Bengbu Mountain set south of Bengbu, another vein, was exposed on the stone beach of Huaihe River, which made him even more excited.
You can't find a place to get it, and you don't have to work hard to get it. It is an ideal place to erect railway bridges and build piers.
1909 1 month, the project of Xuzhou-Pukou section in the southern section of Jin-Pu Railway started. The ancient road mouth in Bengbu is so noisy. The waves of the Huaihe River gently beat against the Huaihe River dam.
On the banks of the Huaihe River, ships carrying all kinds of bridge-building materials are connected end to end, with masts standing everywhere, stretching for more than ten miles; Bengbu gathered in the old street from north to south, and suddenly rows of sheds were set up along the street, crowded with bridge-building and road-building workers from Hebei, Henan, Tangshan and Tianjin.
At the beginning of the construction of the bridge, about 20,000 migrant workers gathered in Bengbu, which made Bengbu, which had only more than 500 families, prosper for a while. Bengbu Huaihe Railway started in the year of Xuantongyuan in Qing Dynasty (1909) and lasted for 18 months. The bridge is 586.23 meters long, with 9 holes and 8 piers, and the cost is 1 100 million silver dollars.
1911may 15, Bengbu Huaihe railway bridge and Bengbu station of jinpu railway were built one after another.
Bengbu Railway Station is a first-class passenger and freight station on the Jin-Pu line, and has become the hub of railway transportation in northern Anhui.
19 1 1 65438 On February 7th, the entire line of Jinpu Railway was opened to traffic.
At the beginning of the operation of Bengbu Railway Station, there were only a few brick bungalows and greenhouses. At the beginning of the opening of the station, only two passenger trains were put into trial operation every week, and the passenger flow was very small. Because it is located between Xuzhou and Pukou in the southern section, regardless of the speed of the train from south to north, it can only reach Bengbu that night, where the locomotive needs to add coal and water, and passengers get off and stop. Therefore, Bengbu has become an important stop of the Jin-Pu Railway. After liberation, with the development of the national economy, passenger traffic and freight volume have been increasing. 1953, the number of passengers sent has reached more than 550,000, and the number of goods sent has reached more than 360,000 tons. These facilities have been improved after several expansions. During the period of 1953- 1958, passenger waiting rooms were built one after another, and passenger platforms were reconstructed with cement and other materials. 1954, the number of station lines increased from 6 to 7, and the track length was extended. 1987, sending 4.09 million passengers and transferring people1230,000, an increase of 10 times compared with the early days of liberation; The arrival and delivery volume of goods was more than 2.92 million tons, which was 15 times higher than that before liberation. 1995, the station has 24 lines with a total length of 35,635 meters, including 9 arrival-departure lines, 4 shunting lines, and other use lines 1 1. There are also 1 1 freight lines and 22 special lines. 1995, passenger trains 108 were operated every day, with a maximum of 6,000 passengers and more than 3,600 pieces of luggage handled every day. In the whole year, 3.595 million passengers and 840,400 tons of goods were sent, with 431.10 million passengers and 65,438+goods.