Sunday 1 January 2012

Hanoi Vietnam - Hang Co station old memories

Since being put into operation in 1902, Hang Co station, now the Hanoi Vietnam train station is considered an important traffic hub with five branch railway to the parts of the country.
Ga area extends almost all the South line (now Le Duan Street), beginning from the city (now known as Nguyen Extension) to Kham Thien, is the headquarters of the management unit locomotives, rolling stock, signaling information and administration of railway transport. This is where the agency advised the leaders of industry-oriented development strategy, the modernization of Vietnam's railway sector.
French Le Duan called the liquid, then in 1954 into South Road, later known as now. When the new terminal building area, the liquid through the Vinh Xuong, Nam Mon, Fishery and Four United America, continuing the line from the door into Hanoi Vietnam - also known as Yao German border. She turns over the Village of the SU to the Temple of Literature, which went straight down the Bay Mau Lake in Ly Nhan, Nam Dinh to the hand in, ie Quan Lo. Later in 1946, the French Red Mosque Tiling change this, but people still call the liquid used.
Specifically Tan Da, meeting Western train traffic has poems about "la station (la Gare) Hang Co", because this place sold the grass for horse racing nearby, this place after the name change to Sauté Sport, Theatre Anthropology Dan is now the Culture Palace Vietnamese Friendship - Russia. Bridge opened in 1902 when Doumer (the Long Bien bridge) across the Red River Hang Co station is completed and put into use for the kilogram-meters of the first railway to Gia Lam. Then the French built the railway to Hanoi - Nam Dinh - Ninh Binh on May 1-1903, Hanoi - Hai Phong on May 4-1903, and the Hanoi - Lao Cai on May 4-1905. Private railway north - south through Vietnam, but Saigon was started very early, in 1900, but not until 1936 - that 37 years later, to complete fully. Axis through Vietnam and the East - West in the North has created a system of passenger and freight backbone of Vietnam even before until now.
Now the doors Hanoi railway station (built in 1902) no longer exists. During the raid to destroy Hanoi by air over 12 days and nights of the U.S. in late May 12-1972, the main lobby of the station was destroyed. Then the hall was rebuilt under the new architecture in 1976 and completed on the occasion of the Unified Information railway, linking the North - South split after 30 years.
Time of war, rail transportation became the main. Winning ticket to be very difficult to train. In looking at the operator's station, voice heard through the speakers complicated levels, not what was tired of cramped. Rare, and crashing through the door to the right. Crowded, messy ball up the court order, though darkness there was capacity may stand all night. To the 80 th century before the boat is still very hard. There are tour guides sheet is a public work. Customers always winter, holiday, New Year is packed. Guest clinging anywhere, including on the roof of buildings, articulated carriages and steps up and down. Many people look scene but did not dare get married (husband) away or "broken" home every occasion anniversary pace.
After over 20 years of renovation, Hanoi ga ga over the captain. There are many capabilities that meeting, Thao, Lecturer, Communication ... now is engineer Vu Dinh vegetables. Railways have many models and mechanisms of local organizations from unions to enterprises ... corporations with multiple generations of leaders dedicated as the Ha Dang, Sharon, Union Move, Dao Dinh Binh, Nguyen Huu Bang ... Communications and Development, we have many options, sticky-authoritarian, backward hard to survive. To innovate constantly. Each personnel, railroad workers often remembered for a maxim of the innovation process himself, his unit: "The rights along with responsibilities and powers coupled with responsibility." Almost regardless of who the machine will improve the sense of self-responsibility in their position. That part to help the industry survive and make progress in many areas.
One task is to bring greater efficiency upgrades railway bridge across the network, as a basis for shortening the train journey, especially on the route of Unification. In 1983, the ship north - south running at 52 hours. After more than 10 years reduced to 48 hours and 10 next year in May 12-2004 fast boats run only 28 hours, usually on time 99% rate ... The shorter routes from Hanoi to Haiphong, Dong Dang, Lao Cai ... appearance of fast trains.
Shorten the time train travel is the most strenuous and arduous is the most successful railways in Vietnam renovation. But it is not enough. And to build the station, the train according to the criteria "culture - formal - safety." As a result, have long been warning vendors not on board. With a series of changes in the substance of the industry, passengers find comfortable, sympathetic to the railway over an increasingly larger.
Today, Hanoi station was spacious and civilized and polite to the train waiting room, waiting room hotel transnational, internet systems, electronic signage for customers easy to find online, said the station, my train ... In particular, system management automated ticket reservation increasingly promote efficiency. He comes to Hanoi train station has felt the dedicated staff from each service, always willing to help them to have a comfortable trip.
Hanoi now has 8 ga lane roads, trains stop to pick up and discharge passengers, all of which are suffering 1m. Besides the traditional carriage of Germany, India, China, appeared the locomotives and coach a new generation of travel along the two-storey buildings, furniture "such as luxury hotels." A ga Park Le Duan Street side door pick-up/drop-off service to North - South, to Dong Dang (Lang Son) and Hai Phong. Zone B-side ga Tran Quy Cap serve routes Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Quan Trieu (Thai Nguyen). Such clues, the Hanoi railway station occupied 1 / 2 volume of railway transport company in Hanoi and in one fifth of the entire output of the Corporation of Vietnam Railways. Every day, in addition to five lines derived from the kilogram-meter, "not" of Vietnam railway line also has to Ha Long, calculated from Yen Vien Station.
Speaking to the Hanoi railway station, now young people are not surprised with the story of "horror train" of parents pay the past. They are also difficult to imagine. After years of renovation, Hanoi station has more beautiful, more service quality improvement, worthy of the railway station hub of Vietnam.

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