Central China's Snow Holds Up 100,000 Train Passengers in Beijing
Posted on: Friday, 20 January 2006, 09:00 CST
Central China's snow holds up 100,000 train passengers in Beijing
BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Beijing West Railway Station launched a red-level emergency warning scheme Thursday after more than 100,000 passengers were held up there after a heavy snow delayed trains on the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, one of the country's major north-to-south railways.
A heavy snow Thursday hit Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province and a railway hub, causing the delay of more than 20 trains to leave the capital.
One train was late for more than eight hours, a station official said.
The waiting hall and the station square were both full of passengers waiting to check in. And the station kept broadcasting train information.
Railway police and armed police were mobilized to maintain order at the railway station.
Beijing municipal officials went to the station, directing the arrangement of resting places and food supply to held-up passengers.
China's Spring Festival travel peak started Saturday. Numerous migrant workers and college students are expected to go home for family reunion before the lunar new year comes, which falls on Jan. 29.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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