Spring Festival travel rush, who walked the station in the depths of the mountain at the grassroots level in the Spring Festival, persisted.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Fuzhou, February 1st Title: Spring Festival travel rush, a station deep in the mountains, sticks to it.

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Yi

　　Zhuyuan Station, located in Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province, is a fifth-class station on the Ganlong Railway. Here, the peaks are towering, the canyons are faint, there are no passenger trains stopping, no people are busy coming and going, only the small station people silently stick to it.

　　On the afternoon of January 29, the reporter bumped along the country path for an hour by car, and then climbed the mountain on foot before coming to the station deep in this mountain. The reporter saw that at the peak of Spring Festival travel rush’s return trip, the platform here was quiet. Liu Youwu, the stationmaster, said that Zhuyuan Station does not handle passenger business, but is only responsible for receiving and dispatching freight trains.

Liu Youwu receives and dispatches trains on the platform of Zhuyuan Station. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Yishe

　　There are 6 employees in the station, 4 of whom are on duty every day. The youngest is 38 years old. The special nature of railway work determines that station attendant must stick to his post every minute, and everyone takes turns to work in shifts and "seamlessly connect" 24 hours a day. In the duty room of the small station, starting from the planned entry section of the train, report the time, open the signal, and jointly control with the driver … … Every time a train passes, station attendant has to answer the phone for nearly 10 times to confirm every link.

　　Liu Youwu told reporters that there is a one-way lane in the interval, and there are two lanes at Zhuyuan Station. If the trains go in opposite directions, they will meet here. By dispatching, one train is allowed to stop temporarily on one track, and then set off after another opposite train passes.

　　Liu Youwu, 60, has worked in the railway system for 36 years. When the reporter asked him how he felt about his work in Zhuyuan Station for many years, he said it was boring, but he insisted on it. "There is no signal on the mobile phone and TV on the mountain. I want to go to work more than resting. At least I can hear the driver’s call when I go to work." Liu Youwu said.

　　Deep in the mountains, it was already dark before 5 pm. In the night, there is a room and a lamp, and the employees on the job talk to the train driver who is about to arrive from time to time. "The personnel on duty can’t read books and newspapers, and safety must be guaranteed. Doing other things will be distracting." On the same day, station attendant Chen Jie said, "The hardest thing is the night shift. You can’t be a little confused. If you are sleepy, you will wash your face with cold water and turn around to refresh yourself. If you are sleepy, you will have to overcome it."

　　After the shift, Chen Jie touched the flashlight and went out, along the long rail, drifting away into the boundless night.

　　"The station staff should patrol a circle of lines before going to bed every day to see if there are any foreign bodies invading and if there are any small animals affecting the equipment. In winter, the wind is strong in the mountains. Standing on the bridge, we often joke that if we don’t eat fat, it will be blown away by the wind. " Luo Mouzhen, deputy stationmaster of Yuyuan Station, said.

　　Early the next morning, Liu Youwu came down from the mountain and went shopping as usual. "Although Zhuyuan Station is a railway station, the traffic is inconvenient. Every time everyone wants to go down the mountain, then take the bus to the town more than 10 kilometers away to buy food and prepare the ingredients for the week. " Liu Youwu said that in order to let employees eat fresh vegetables, he also reclaimed a vegetable field on the mountain and watered and weeded it in his spare time.

　　The station is located in the ravine, and the conditions are difficult. Every time the station staff go to work, they need to take the bullet train to Gutian Meeting Site Railway Station, which is 20 kilometers away from the station, and then take the township bus for half an hour to reach Zhuyuan Village, and it will take a long mountain road to reach the small station. Some employees have several scars on their hands and legs, which are caused by slipping and falling on the hillside in rainy days. "Some people once almost rolled into the valley, but fortunately, they caught the weeds on the side in time to save their lives." Luo Mouzhen said.

This is Zhuyuan Station (photo of drone) in the mountains. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Yishe

　　In addition, there is no running water in the station, and washing and cooking rely on a spring water flowing out of a stone crack on the top of the mountain. The staff of the station will go to the water source every two days to clean up the sundries and ensure the safety of drinking water.

　　When the reporter asked them how they persisted, the staff of the station said that although they did not transport passengers, it was particularly meaningful to think that coal, spring ploughing fertilizer and other materials in the mountains were dispatched through their intersection and then transported out of the mountains.

　　Near retirement, stationmaster Liu Youwu ushered in his last Spring Festival travel rush. For every plant and tree in the station, he has already had a constant feeling of giving up. This year, his biggest thought is still to stand on the last shift. "In Spring Festival travel rush this year, the number of freight trains has increased, and more than 30 trains have to be on duty day and night. The task of small stations is not easy, especially when the weather is cooling and the mountains are prone to freezing. Be more careful at this time."

　　During the period of Spring Festival travel rush, whenever he received the order to pick up the car, Liu Youwu would wait quietly on the platform with a flag in both hands. Trains galloping in the distance pass by here, bringing the persistence and love of the station people to the distance.