“Bus” for villagers along the slow train on Jingyuan Line. Train No.
6437/6438 travels between Beijing West Railway Station and Shanxi Dajian Station for 16.5 yuan; low-cost, densely located stations bring convenience to villagers along the line
On the 6437 train, the flight attendant pushed the trolley to sell food and beverages.
A08-A09 edition photography / Beijing News reporter Pei Jianfei
Xu Haiguang, the deputy head of Qifeng Tower Station, patrolled the station.
A passenger showed his ticket, and the fare was only two yuan.
The 6437 train stopped at a midway station, and the flight attendants helped passengers carry wheelchairs.
At 5:30 pm on September 27, a green-skinned train was ready to leave on platform 10 of Beijing West Railway Station.
The dark green car body is covered with black marks left by coal burning, and there are two rows of "mushroom" ventilation holes on the roof. Move to the side of the car, and a faint "boiler room smell" immediately enters the nose. ".
Every afternoon, the 6437 train will depart on time from Beijing West Railway Station with a whistle, go southwest along the Jingyuan Line, pass through Yanshan Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Wutai Mountain, continue along the Juma River, and finally arrive at Dajian, Shanxi. Station, here is the most fringe of the jurisdiction of Beijing Railway Administration.
This is the only train that stops at all stations on the Jingyuan Line, and it is favored because it is cheaper than buses.
Villagers along the route use this train to go out to study, shop and seek medical treatment. They also use this train to go to Bailixia and Shidu to do part-time work every weekend.
The fare has not risen in 20 years
"Come and let me" "I put a bag", 20 minutes before the departure, passengers carrying packages of various sizes poured into the carriage.
This is a sleeping valet train, all of which only sell hard seat tickets.
Most of the passengers will switch according to their preferences, sitting in different carriages, drinking and playing cards lively, while those who prefer quiet will fall asleep.
After a while, the train departed from Beijing West Railway Station.
Accompanied by the rustling of wheels and rails, the traveler licked the seeds.
Zhang Hua, who went home to help his parents harvest corn in the autumn, was an old passenger of this train. When he was young, he also took this train every time he went out.
"At that time, the carriages were much more crowded than they are now. During the Spring Festival, they even turned in and out through the windows." Zhang Hua lives in a small mountain village called Sanyi Village in Baoding, Hebei. Now he is doing business with relatives in Beijing. idle.
"I've been on this bus for more than 20 years. When I get home during the Spring Festival, the bus will definitely be full. Most of them are people who work outside, as well as students who study outside."
250 kilometers, 161 bridges, 121 tunnels, 31 stations and landing stations, about 7 hours of journey, these are all of the 6437 train.
"The transportation in the mountain village is inconvenient. For example, the long-distance shuttle bus from Hebei Laiyuan to Beijing costs more than 70 yuan. If you take the high-speed shuttle, the fare is higher, while the slow train only costs 14.5 yuan. It takes one or two yuan to reach the destination." The conductor Chen Guicheng told reporters that the terminal station, Dajian Station, is a small remote village in Shanxi. The people there can only take this train when they come to Beijing, and this line is like a big There are more than 20 rural stations like Jian.
With the promotion of high-speed trains that travel thousands of miles a day, China's trains are developing at a rapid pace. According to the statistics of the railway department, there are currently only about 80 green passenger cars running on the road network.
The bottom of the general-speed non-air-conditioned car determines that the hardware conditions of the 6437 train are much different from the high-speed rail trains, which are several times the fare, and even can't catch up with the ordinary electric locomotives with the same "green leather" coat.
After 2000, the price of this train has not increased. The 250 kilometers from Beijing west to Shanxi Dajian only costs 16.5 yuan. The low price and densely set up stations have become the biggest attraction.
The conductor knows the old passengers
Since most of the stations are located in mountainous areas with an altitude of nearly 1,000 meters, the green trains have poor hardware conditions and no air conditioning. It can be said that winter is cold and summer is hot.
The conductors of the 6437 train tried their best to arrange the vehicles in a decent way: well-equipped convenient service boxes, medicine boxes, caring carriages, etc., even in the water room, which is too small to turn around, is also decorated with colorful plastics. flower.
After running for a long time, the conductor knew almost every old passenger.
"Which is where, what is going to do, what is the income, and when do you usually come to take the bus." If a frequent passenger hasn't come for a long time, the conductors will ask familiar passengers to ask.
“Almost every station along the way will stop, and some stations may only have one or two passengers up all year round.” Chen Guicheng told reporters that this train only has 7 passenger stations in Beijing West, Shidu, and Laiyuan, and the rest stops at all stations. It is a "boarding and landing station", and some platforms are not well-lit. In order to avoid missing passengers, there will be a conductor watching at each door, and the number of people on and off must be counted clearly.
At Shidu Station, an old man in an old camouflage jacket got into the car, and Chen Guicheng recognized him at a glance.
"Yo Lao Luo, how are the chestnuts sold today?" The old man smiled faintly, and took out a blue, white and red faded woven bag from his back. There were not a few left in the open bag. Chestnuts, "all sold out, very good, very good."
"I can see him basically every day. Our train has become his bus, and basically every conductor recognizes him." Lao Luo lives alone at home, has no children, and has no stable source of income all year round. , Life is tight.
"Every morning he picks up some chestnuts and walnuts from the mountains near his doorstep and takes the train to Bailixia, Shidu and other scenic spots to sell. Basically this is the main income."
"Bus" where villagers go out
At about 9:45 in the evening, the No. 6437 train stopped at Qifengta Station, a fourth-class freight station and boarding station located in Sixiang, Nancheng, Yi County, Baoding, Hebei, under the jurisdiction of Beijing West Train Depot.
In the map and network of the railway system, it is too small to be clearly marked, but for the villagers in the surrounding Qifengta Village, it is an important window to get out of the mountains.
Surrounded by mountains, deep ditch, barren land, and blocked traffic, the only crop is the annual corn.
The village is divided into 2 natural villages. When it was identified as a documented and registered poor village at the end of 2013, there were 48 registered poor households with 169 people.
Young people basically go out to work, and those who stay behind are either old or young.
On September 28, Qifengta villager Wu Fengrong’s home was extremely busy. His daughter who was studying abroad was going home on holiday. She was preparing lunch and planned to give her children some fresh-picked chestnuts to "try a taste."
If it weren't for her daughter's holiday, Wu Fengrong would take the train as usual this weekend to go to scenic spots and farmhouses in areas such as Bailixia and Shidu to do odd jobs, commonly known as "running worship."
In the local area, men and young people in the family usually go out to work. Some left-behind women and old people in rural areas will take the slow train out to "running for worship" on weekends and peak tourist seasons, and children who go to school in other villages cannot do without going home. This bus, this bus has become the "bus" of Qifengta Village.
In fact, all kinds of transportation are relatively developed nowadays, and villagers can also take a bus to the town and then transfer to a long-distance bus, but it costs nearly 100 yuan at every turn and it takes more than half a day. In contrast, taking the train is still the most convenient. Economical travel options.
Xu Haiguang, the deputy director of Qifeng Pagoda Station, has worked at this small station for more than 7 years and is very familiar with surrounding villagers.
Sometimes passengers get off the bus too late and cannot return home, Xu Haiguang will help find a shuttle bus or help contact his family.
Some passengers were anxious when they got off to the wrong station. Xu Haiguang would still let people wait in the station for a while and try to provide them with some help.
The railway line also brought some troubles.
If you look down from the sky, Qifeng Pagoda Station is located in the middle of the village, and a railway line divides the village into two parts.
In order to avoid detours, the villagers would venture across the railway, and they had to carry hundreds of catties of corn on their backs during the autumn harvest.
This problem has become a stone in the hearts of the cadres of the Beijing Railway Bureau in Qifengta Village. After repeated inspections and measurements, they finally planned a route on the hillside.
"Just build a road here, leading to the ravine. It must be leveled and at least tractors and tricycles must be able to walk." With the efforts of the cadres in the village, the last 100 meters of the village and the field were separated by the railway. The headway was opened up.
A hardened road winds down the hillside and leads directly to the culvert under the railway.
When the villagers plant in spring and harvest in autumn, they no longer have to cross the railway line every day to venture forward. Tricycles and tractors can drive directly to the fields.
Mountain chestnut enters the Beijing market
Zhang Xianmin is the first secretary of Shijiazhuang Railway Office of Beijing Railway Administration in Qifengta Village, and the second batch of poverty alleviation cadres sent by Beijing Railway Administration to Qifengta Village.
In his own words, the work of the first batch of poverty alleviation cadres was to lift Qifengta Village out of poverty, and his responsibility was to consolidate the results and prevent everyone from returning to poverty for any reason.
Qifengta Village has poor natural conditions. Cui Lianyou, secretary of the village party branch and director of the village committee, has statistics. The per capita arable land in the village is less than one acre. The traditional industry is corn planting. When the autumn harvest comes, everything is neatly packed and golden. "Baogu Duo".
But this industry cannot lead the villagers to get rich, they can barely make ends meet.
What worries Cui Lianyou most is that even with a bumper harvest of corn, the price will be kept low because there is no market and the middlemen who rely entirely on door-to-door purchases.
"One side of water and soil cannot feed one side" is a true portrayal of Qifengta Village a few years ago.
However, Zhang Xianmin discovered that although Qifengta Village is not suitable for large-scale grain cultivation, its unique soil conditions and historical factors have left many chestnut and walnut trees in the mountains and plains, especially some old chestnut trees over a hundred years old. Have not experienced technological improvement, chestnuts are small but have a unique taste and higher nutritional value.
These most common gadgets in Qifengta Village are rare things for the people in the city, but usually the villagers can only use bamboo baskets with chestnuts on the train to sell them in scenic spots such as Bailixia and Shidu. The income is extremely low. stable.
"Why can't the chestnuts here be moved to the dining table in Beijing?" With this idea, Zhang Xianmin discussed with the village committee director Cui Lianyou and several cadres in the village to start the matter.
A few months ago, Zhang Xianmin contacted an agricultural cooperative in Haidian District, Beijing through the "Jingyi Counterpart Support Platform."
“As soon as they heard about the situation in Qifengta Village, they immediately expressed their interest and willingness to help us benefit the villagers." After the inspection, the two parties immediately signed a cooperation agreement to help Qifengta villagers upgrade chestnut planting technology and expand Planting increases production, and is responsible for promotion and sales.
"In this way, chestnuts can be sold at a better price and sales channels can be further expanded."
Villagers can also work at home to earn money
Nowadays, trains 6437/6438 on the Jingyuan Line are still running day after day, and the old small villages are undergoing changes.
As a designated poverty alleviation unit in Qifengta Village, the Beijing Railway Bureau began to select cadres in the village to take root in Qifengta in 2016. Four years later, Qifengta Village has achieved "poverty alleviation" and the village's per capita annual income has jumped from 2,000 yuan to 6000 yuan.
Walking on the rural roads of Qifeng Tower, you can feel the changes that are taking place here: the flat hardened road, the solar lights next to the road, and the stable mobile phone network signal.
Walking along the east entrance of the village, you can find a wheel shaft, which is now in a semi-abandoned state. Four or five kinds of weeds of various shapes have been drilled in the cracks in the shaft wall.
This is because the tap water from the deep well enters the home, and the tap is turned on, and a stream of clear tap water immediately gushes out, and the drinking water safety of the villagers is guaranteed.
In addition to income from farming, villagers in Qifengta Village now have the opportunity to work outside their homes.
With the electrification of normal-speed railways across the country, the Jingyuan line is undergoing a systematic upgrade, and construction is currently being carried out in sections and batches.
In the future, trains 6437/6438 passing through the mountains are also expected to speed up.
"Railway construction is very complicated. In addition to those highly technical jobs, our villagers can also participate in the slack season. The farmers can endure hardships and have strength." With the help of Zhang Xianmin, the engineering unit from Qifeng Tower The village recruited some temporary workers, and many villagers were able to work outside their homes to earn money during the slack in farming.
Beijing News reporter Pei Jianfei, correspondent Yang Gelong