The history of Tangshan Railway Station (Tangshan Station) can be traced back to the Guangxu period.

On June 9, 1881, in order to solve the problem of coal transportation in Kailuan, China's first railway, the Tangshan-Xugezhuang Railway, started construction.

The first road spike was driven into Tangshan by the wife of the Englishman and chief engineer of the Kaiping Mining Bureau. This 10-kilometer coal-carrying railway cost a total of 110,000 taels of silver.

Because this section of railway used mules and horses to pull freight cars, it was also known as the "carriage railway".

A railway station must be built when building a railway. Tangshan Station is the first railway station at the starting point of the Tangxu Railway, the first self-built railway in the history of our country.

In early 1882, Tangshan Railway Station was completed and opened for business.

The station site is chosen at the old station crossing on the east side of the urban overpass, and the station line has two branches.

Later, due to blind mining of underground coal, the roadbed collapsed and affected driving safety. In 1907, Tangshan Station was moved 1 kilometer west to the address of Tangshan South Station.

Therefore, Tangshan Railway Station is the earliest and longest operating railway station in China.

In the 70 years from 1907 to 1976, the waiting room of Tangshan Station was renovated and expanded four times. The Tangshan Station reproduced in the old photos was the Tangshan Station that was last rebuilt before the earthquake.

At that time, the Jingshan Line was the only choke transportation line connecting North China and Northeast China, and it played a decisive role in the city's economic development.

On July 28, 1976, a strong earthquake occurred in Tangshan. Tangshan Railway Station suffered devastating damage and all station buildings and buildings were razed to the ground.

In order to repair the damaged railway as soon as possible, transport the injured to other places for treatment, and bring in relief materials, the Chinese railway department mobilized from top to bottom and composed a "hymn" with the spirit of earthquake resistance.

The railways were severely damaged in the 1976 earthquake. At that time, the total length of the affected lines on the Jingshan and Tongtuo lines was 403 kilometers long.

According to a staff member of the railway department, “the roadbed in many sections has sunk and cracked, and the rails have twisted and deformed. Some roadbeds have sunk up to 3 meters, and some have longitudinal cracks up to 2 meters; 63 bridges have been damaged, including extremely large bridges over 500 meters long.

There are two bridges and 16 bridges over 100 meters; the bridge head embankments are generally sinking, the bridge abutments are tilted, the bridge piers are broken, the bridges are displaced, and some bridges have fallen to the ground, causing serious damage. "In addition to the serious damage to the railway facilities,

Other facilities such as houses in the Tangshan railway station area were not spared.

Most of the production and living houses at various stations and along the railway were destroyed; communication signals, water supply, electricity and transportation and production equipment along the railway were severely damaged, which ultimately led to the interruption of all railway transportation from Tangshan to Tianjin, Beijing and Shenyang.

After the earthquake, the Ministry of Railways immediately organized an earthquake relief headquarters, and established emergency repair headquarters for the eastern section, western section, middle section, and Tongtuo Line on the Jingshan Line. 12 railway bureaus including Beijing, Jinzhou, Shenyang, and Zhengzhou successively established the first,

Twenty-eight units including the Second and Fourth Bridge Engineering Bureaus and three divisions of the Railway Corps mobilized 42,000 people to form an emergency repair army and rushed to the disaster area.

The assistance team was divided into sections and launched a comprehensive battle to repair the Jingshan, Tongtuo, Jinji Railway and Beishui Branch Line.

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Four companies of railway troops stationed in Ji County took a 190-kilometer detour by car and entered the Tongtuo Line railway emergency repair site in just five hours after the earthquake, with cracked roads, damaged bridges and crowded vehicles.

After the hard work of railway workers and railway corps commanders, the east of Luan County was opened to traffic on time; the east of Tangshan was opened to traffic on time; and the area from Tangshan to Tanggu was opened to traffic on time.

So far, the Jingshan Line has been fully connected.

On August 5, Tangshan Station opened its first special train to transport the wounded.

On August 7, the first train of disaster relief supplies was received.

During the entire process of transferring seriously injured people, 159 special trains were dispatched to transport more than 18,000 trains of relief supplies. On August 10, more than 2,800 passengers stranded in the disaster area were safely transferred.

After August 10, the emergency repair force used its main force to renovate the lines and increase the driving speed. At the same time, some forces were allocated to repair the branches and dedicated lines of industrial and mining enterprises.

In September, more than 20,000 people and some railway troops were mobilized from four railway bureaus and two engineering bureaus to reinforce and repair houses. By the eve of the National Day, the two main lines of Jingshan and Tongtuo, except for individual bridge speed limits,

The traffic speed in the area has returned to the pre-earthquake level.

By the end of October, the country had repaired 897 kilometers of main lines and station lines, 146 branch lines and special lines, covering 413 kilometers, and 63 bridges.

Nearly 330,000 square meters of housing were built and reinforced in a timely manner.

After the Tangshan earthquake, the Tangshan Station, which was rebuilt on the ruins of the original site, was completed and put into use on November 5, 1983.

In line with the needs of the new Tangshan urban construction master plan after the earthquake, the construction of a new passenger station, Tangshan Station, located in the western section of Xinhua West Road in Tangshan, 9.5 kilometers away from the railway station rebuilt on the original site after the earthquake, started on March 17, 1993.

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With an investment of 41.904 million yuan from the railway and local governments, all station construction tasks were completed on schedule on April 29, 1994. On November 11 of the same year, it was put into use at the same time as the Jingshan reconstruction project was opened to handle passenger transportation services.

It was officially operated independently on July 1, 1995 and designated as a first-class station.

Tangshan Station handles an average of 7,700 passengers per day. Compared with 1976 before the earthquake, the number of passengers sent per day increased by 4,300.

In 2010, the application for the Tangshan World Horticultural Expo was successful.