China News Service, Guangzhou, May 18 (Reporter Guo Jun) Guangzhou Railway Museum, the largest railway museum in southern China, officially opened to the public on May 18.
It is reported that the indoor exhibition hall of the museum currently houses more than 4,000 historical relics and old objects, including the "Flywheel" road emblem, the treasure of the town hall.
The museum was renovated and designed by the team of He Jingtang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. It stands on the banks of the Pearl River Baie Pond. It is a building complex integrating modern design and historical features.
The museum covers an area of 28,950 square meters, of which the outdoor area is 18,489 square meters and the indoor area is 10,461 square meters. It is divided into two indoor exhibition halls and an open-air exhibition area.
The largest railway museum in South China officially opened to the public photo by Chen Jimin
The two indoor exhibition halls are renovated from the old warehouses of the former station, and belong to the historical buildings of Guangzhou City, "the former site of the Huangsha Station of the Guangdong-Hankou Railway".
Hall 1 consists of 5 exhibition halls: "Hardships", "Road to New Life", "Pioneering First", "High-speed Railway Era" and "Continuing the Past and Forging the Future", showing the century-old history of Guangzhou railway; Hall 2 exhibits railway industrial heritage and old railway objects; open-air exhibition area It mainly displays some locomotives, vehicles, lines, signals and other railway equipment.
The largest railway museum in South China officially opened to the public photo by Chen Jimin
The treasure of the museum's town hall - the "Flywheel" road emblem, that is, the "Railway Badge (Best Badge) of the Ministry of Communications of the Republic of China", is a silver product, designed and produced in 1919.
The shape is a locomotive with flying wings on both sides of the moving wheel, which symbolizes the rapid development and grand momentum of China's railways.
At present, there are no more than five "Flywheel" road emblems in the country.
"This museum was built on the original site of the century-old Huangsha Station. The overall building retains the basic original features. It integrates display, collection, display, popular science, and education. It displays the history of railways through physical display and multimedia means such as sound, light, and electricity. Promote railway culture." Chen Zhixiong, deputy director of the Guangzhou Railway Museum, said that the museum displays cultural relics and objects, as well as boundary markers and stocks of the Yuehan Railway, century-old steel sleepers and rails, and 11 models of EMUs on display.
The largest railway museum in South China officially opened to the public photo by Chen Jimin
It is understood that in July 1907, Huangsha Station, the starting station of the Yuehan Railway, was completed and opened to traffic.
Huangsha Station was also the location of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway Corporation. The famous "Father of Chinese Railways" Zhan Tianyou worked here from 1911 to 1912.
On December 18, 1946, the passenger transportation business of Huangsha Station was moved to Dashatou Station and renamed Guangzhou South Station.
By the 1990s, Guangzhou South Railway Station had become the largest super-large freight station in South China at that time, combining both land and water, and the integration of station and port, which played an important role in promoting the prosperity and development of Guangzhou's economy.
On June 10, 2005, with the changes of Guangzhou municipal construction, Guangzhou South Railway Station was closed, ending the historical mission of railway operation for 98 years and officially withdrawing from the historical stage.
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