ChinaTown ! Brand new £400million Chinese railway station ERRUPTS into giant waterfalls after storm exposes thousands of holes on the roof.
The reputation of China’s
new £400million Shijiazhuang Railway Station has been washed away by multiple
leaks during a rainstorm that turned the inside of the building into a giant
waterfall.
Torrential rain hit
Shijiazhuang city, Hebei province, on Thursday night, but its railway station,
which is served by China’s high-speed trains, was not up to the job of
sheltering passengers.
Water passed through the
ceiling of the station, built in 2012, soaking passengers waiting inside.
Water catastrophe: Shijiazhuang Railway Station suffered huge leaks on Thursday
Soaked: A drenched
passenger walks through the station with his luggage
The downpour led to the
suspension of dozens of services.
Some passengers who
uploaded pictures of the cascading water to the internet said the problem was
exacerbated by the station’s design, which incorporates lots of windows in the
roof.
It comes after the roof
of a Sydney Opera House replica building in China was taken off due to severe
leaks.
Drip, drip effect: Some
passengers who uploaded pictures of the cascading water to the internet said
the problem was exacerbated by the station’s design
The knock-off building,
in Liaoning province's Fuxin county near Inner Mongolia, came under the spotlight
four years ago when the local government forked out 1.1 million yuan (£100,000
) to construct it.
The building, which was
used as a waterside restaurant, was one of China's many 'grand projects' to
re-brand regional cities as cultural hubs to attract tourists and investment.
The roof structures were
removed after a two-day-long process. One staff member told the Shanghaiist that the restaurant had been shut
down last year as part of leader Xi Jinping's anti-extravagance campaign, and
that local authorities had ordered the roof to be taken down.
A spokesman with the
county's housing construction bureau said the structural leakage was the reason
for the roof's removal.
'Maybe the style is not
satisfying,' said another staff commenter.
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