Abandoned factory photography

What are the ruins? Abandoned factories, hospitals, old houses, abandoned railway stations and bomb shelters. Why go to the ruins? Simple photography, looking for excitement, recalling the old days, some people have an old soul living in their bodies and like all buildings and objects with a sense of the times.

Nowadays, many cities have unique industrial punching places, such as Shougang Park in Beijing, 798 Art District, Erqi Factory 1897 Kechuang City, and the site of coking plant that we are going to talk about today, which is also defined in recent years.

In 1950s and 1960s, coal was the main heating material in winter in Beijing, so there was smoke everywhere in winter and the air quality was worrying. In order to solve this problem, in 1958, a Beijing coking plant covering an area of 3,000 mu rose in the East Fifth Ring Road. From then on, Beijing can independently produce gas and coke, which has solved a big problem. This use is 50 years. With the gradual development of Beijing city, the old coking plant is obviously not practical enough, and the Beijing Olympic Games is held. Since 2006, Beijing Coking Plant stopped production, and the coking plant withdrew from the historical stage of the city for half a century. 20 18 was selected into the list of industrial heritage protection in China, and it is being gradually transformed into a heritage park.

The coking plant may be the only large abandoned factory in Beijing that has not been rebuilt. Here, you can feel the primitive industrial wind at the end of last century. In the future planning, the coking plant will build a site park similar to Shougang on the basis of retaining the original site. Take the subway and get off at the southeast exit of Coking Plant Station. There is a broken iron gate to go east. The first thing you see is two ancient buildings, which are like abandoned scenes in science fiction movies for the first time. The worn floor is also properly maintained, but you still need to be careful not to step on it.

After entering the park, you will be surrounded by a desolate and strange atmosphere. The garden is overgrown with weeds, dilapidated factory buildings, rusty steel bars, mottled walls, dust visible to the naked eye in the air, and various parts scattered on the ground, and the smell of coking coal can be smelled from time to time. All this is creepy and my heart beats faster. In Beijing, seeing many high-rise concrete forests and suddenly coming to this venue, I still feel that I have entered a different space. At the end of the 20th century, a period of history in North China Plain seemed to be sealed in this huge and silent factory, during which tourists strolled with the dust of the past.

The whole plant area is very large, with several huge workshops, coke ovens, transport railways, belt transport corridors, pipelines, chimneys, cooling towers and some industrial equipment. Because it has been abandoned for a long time, the plant area is overgrown with vegetation, the buildings are dilapidated, the equipment is rusty and devastated, and a strong sense of ruins is coming. The factory building is light in structure and reasonable in materials. Fire stairs, expansion joints between buildings, equipment foundation, fall protection and explosion-proof facilities are all available, which is not much behind the concrete factory building structure designed now.

There is a railway in the park, which should be used to transport goods at that time. The main buildings are concentrated on both sides of the railway. The entrances to most buildings are blocked. There are several factories opposite the railway to the east of the factory. The doors are open. You can go in. Suitable for taking pictures, strong sense of film. There are sinking floors in the building, semi-underground and under the steps. It seems that it was used to treat wastewater. At two or three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun just shone through the semi-underground window, and the beams were beautiful. The abandoned coking plant in winter is not lonely, light and shadow are intertwined, like a dream, and the factory is picturesque. The youth of a generation, the glory of a city, a dusty history and a winter symphony.

Finally, I would like to remind you that the most important principle of relic exploration is to bring nothing but photos and leave nothing but footprints. Don't walk when taking pictures, don't take pictures when walking, and be sure to look at the empty wells, nails and bare steel bars under your feet when visiting the park. Try not to climb into tall buildings. Because the door is blocked, there is still a safety hazard. Adventure belongs to adventure, and safety should be given priority.

Name of scenic spot: former site of Beijing Coking Plant

Address: Southeast of Coking Plant Subway Station, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Take the bus and get off at Exit B of Coking Plant of Metro Line 7.

Tickets are free.