The First Railway Theme Park in Urumqi
Starting from Beijing-Xinjiang Road in Urumqi High-tech Zone (New Urban Area), a 1.7-kilometer-long railway stretches all the way to Kashgar Road, with lush flowers and trees growing on both sides of the railway track. The pavement stones laid between each track make the original rough and uneven track smooth and orderly, and pedestrians build steps from both sides of the road. Walkway in, just can walk on this rail.
This is the railway theme park located in Beijing-Xinjiang Road, a high-tech zone (new urban area). On August 24, the second phase of greening construction was completed and the park was put into use.
is the main part of the park. The 1.7 km long railway running through the park is one of the special lines of the Liudaowan Railway. The railway, once used as a city artery to carry coal, was built in 1964 and was abandoned in 2007 with the closure of the Liudaowan Coal Mine. A 6031 A 6031 Song Chunyou, a resident of Ziyucheng District, said that she had lived here for more than ten years and that the abandoned railway had been transformed into a railway-themed park, which made her and the residents living nearby happy. A 6031 A 6031 Guo Zhaojin, Secretary of the Party Group of the Landscape Management Bureau of the High-tech Zone (New Urban Area), said that this was the first railway theme park in Urumqi, covering 57,000 square meters, equivalent to the size of eight football fields. A 6031 A 6031 Liudaowan Railway is 9.93 kilometers long, and the 1.7 kilometers chosen by the Railway Theme Park is the most intensive part of residents'activities. There are more than 20 residential areas along the line, with about 100,000 inhabitants. From the beginning of May this year, the Landscape Architecture Administration of the High-tech Zone (New Urban Area) took "Railway Elements" as its landscape carrier, coordinated with various departments to increase the green area along the railway by 85 mu by cleaning up garbage, repairing railways and replacing earthworks while retaining the original railway features. Through the two phases of construction, today's park green landscape is rich and colorful, pleasing to the eye. The addition of recreational walkways provides convenience for citizens to walk and visit, and also makes railway parks more practical. Next, the park will add railway facilities such as locomotives, old carriages, seats, and other railway elements, as well as sculptures and garden sketches related to railway culture, so as to enhance the tourist attractiveness of the theme park.