Throwback Thursday: When Line 10 Wasn't Even a Thing
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our nine-year-strong blog archives as the source for a glance at the weird and wonderful of yesteryear.
This month nine years ago there wasn’t even a Line 10. Just let that nugget of information sit in your post-Line 10 brain for a second. Yes, what has since become Beijing’s longest and most widely used subway line didn’t exist until July 2008, opening just prior to the Olympics.
Even then the first phase of construction capped the line at Jinsong in the southeast, running north and to the west to a now mysterious station named Wanliu, a portion of the city that we can only assume has quite literally been wiped off the map, replaced instead with Bagou.
2008: The era when maps were even an eyesore
It wasn’t for another four years that the second phase of Line 10’s construction was to be completed, consuming plans for what was in fact going to be a separate track – Line 11 – and leaving it a curtailed C-shape. The loop was finally enclosed in May 2013 with the opening of the southwesterly stations of Niwa, Jiaomen East, and Fengtai Railway Station, completing the Third Ring Road-skirting route that we see today.
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