Dongsi Shitiao station

Dongsi Shitiao 东四十条
Line 2 platform Line 3 eastbound platform
General information
Location	Dongsi Shitiao Bridge (East 2nd Ring Road and Ping'an Avenue) Dongcheng District, Beijing China
Coordinates	39°56′02″N 116°26′03″E
Operated by	Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corporation Limited
Line(s)	Line 2      Line 3
Platforms	4 (1 island platform and 1 split island platform)
Tracks	4
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Accessible	Yes
Other information
Status	in service
Station code	213 (Line 2)
History
Opened	September 20, 1984 (1984-09-20) (Line 2) December 15, 2024 (2024-12-15) (Line 3)
Services
Preceding station Beijing Subway Following station Dongzhimen outer loop / anticlockwise Line 2 Chaoyangmen inner loop / clockwise Terminus Line 3 Workers' Stadium towards Dongbabei
Location Dongsi Shitiao Location in central Beijing

Dongsi Shitiao station (simplified Chinese: 东四十条站; traditional Chinese: 東四十條站; pinyin: Dōngsì Shítiáo zhàn), is an interchange station on Line 2 and Line 3 of the Beijing Subway.

Name

Dongsi Subdistrict is an area in the northeastern side of the old town of Beijing. Hutongs are sorted numerically from south to north, and are called "tiao" in local parlance. Shitiao therefore refers to the tenth hutong in the Dongsi area, counted from south to north.

Use

The station is particularly busy during Beijing Guo'an matches, due to its proximity to the Workers' Stadium.

Station layout

The Line 2 station has an underground island platform, whilst the Line 3 station has an underground split island platform.

There is an unused platform below the existing Line 2 platform, built during the construction of the station, which was to have been used for the planned Line 3. The unused platform, originally meant for Line 3, will not be used for its original purpose, due to the newer rolling stock being too large for the original platform. Instead, it became the transfer concourse between the two lines. The connection between the two levels opened four decades after the station for Line 2 opened. For Line 3, two new platforms were built seven or eight metres below the original, one for each direction.

To allow construction of Line 3 platforms, the station of Line 2 has suspended for services between November 25, 2023 and February 27, 2024.

Exits

There are four exits, lettered A, B, C, and D. Exits B and C have accessible elevators.

Gallery

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  Transfer concourse (formerly reserved for Line 3)
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  former reserved for Line 3, pictured in July 2021
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  Line 2's North concourse (February 2021)
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  Line 2's North concourse (February 2024)
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  Line 2's North concourse extension (February 2024)
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  Line 2's south concourse
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  Line 2's South concourse extension (February 2024)
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  Interchange interface on Line 2's platform
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  Line 2 platform before the installation of platform screen doors
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  North transfer stairs from Line 2 to Line 3 before renovation (March 2020)
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  North transfer stairs from Line 2 to Line 3 post-renovation (December 2024)
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  South transfer stairs from Line 2 to Line 3 before renovation (September 2017)
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  South transfer stairs from Line 2 to Line 3 post-renovation (December 2024)
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  Western part of the original reserved platform converted to the transfer concourse (December 2024)
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  East end of the original reserved platform converted to the transfer concourse (December 2024)
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  Eastern part of the original reserved platform converted to the conversion level (December 2024)
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  Line 3 originating platform (at the end of the 4th carriage)
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  Line 3 terminating platform
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  Line 3 platform passage 2
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  Line 3 platform passage 3
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  Line 3 platform passage 4

External links

• Media related to Dongsi Shitiao Station at Wikimedia Commons