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200 meters, this is the straight-line distance between the railway area of Honggu District of Lanzhou City and Haishiwan Railway Station.
30 meters, which is the number of meters of separation between the passenger duty room and the station transfer room of Haishiwan Station.
Haishiwan Station is a second-class station under the jurisdiction of the Xining Train Depot of China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group, Du Changying is the station passenger attendant, Yan Yulin is the station dispatcher, the two are a couple, and the railway community has their home together.
For 30 years, on the 200-meter cement road from home to work, the days when the couple went in and out of work in pairs were numbered. The short 30 meters separated by only one room has become a "magpie bridge" close to each other. This year is the last Spring Festival for the two of them, and after the Spring Festival, they will retire one after another.
Watch your steps and be careful of slipping. "On February 2, a sudden heavy snowfall made Haishiwan Station busy again. On the platform, Du Changying held a horn in his hand and kept loudly reminding passengers who had just gotten off the train. After sending off the passengers, she habitually looked at the station transfer room, Yan Yulin, who was immersed in preparing the shunting plan, happened to look up, the two looked at each other and smiled, waving to each other through the window, this situation was another different kind of "meeting" between them day after day.
During the Spring Festival, Yan Yulin (right) stuck to his post. Photo by Li Wenjie.
He didn't talk much, but he was very attentive, and often cooked for me and sewed buttons, and I felt that he was a man worth entrusting for life. Recalling the experience of the two in the early years, Du Changying looked happy.
After getting married, life returned to the blandness of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and the arrival of their son made them a little at a loss. Because they had to work shifts, they had to leave their son, who was less than half a year old, in the care of a nanny, and when he was just two and a half years old, they sent him to kindergarten. Recalling their son's heart-rending cry back then, the couple is still full of guilt. Today, his son, who is 1.9 meters tall, has been working in Xuancheng, Anhui Province, but he is still "complaining" that his parents failed to give him a complete childhood.
Time is like water, flowing through your fingertips. "Together, we have witnessed the evolution of railways from steam engines to internal combustion engines, electric locomotives, EMUs, and from rigid tickets to paper tickets to unmanned ticketing. The couple recalled with a smile that in the 30 years at Haishiwan Station, Yan Yulin honed his skills as a wrenchman, a connector, a shunting chief, an assistant attendant, and a station attendant, and Du Changying also precipitated and harvested from the experience of apprentices, passenger transporters, porters, conductors, and passenger attendants. Due to the different shift systems, most of the time, when Du Changying went out to work, Yan Yulin was preparing to get off work, and when Yan Yulin was at home, Du Changying was busy at the station all day long.
During the Spring Festival, Du Changying was busy. Photo by Li Wenjie.
Haishiwan Station is located at the sub-interface of Qinghai and Gansu Railways, and is responsible for train operation and cargo marshalling in the three directions of Lanzhou, Xining and Yaojie. Every day, Yan Yulin arrived at the post 20 minutes in advance, and learned in advance about the occupation of the station, the loading and unloading of goods, and the pick-up and delivery of vehicles on the special line. In each shift, he issued at least 35 operation plans, organized 1,400 vehicles, and since he became a watchman, he has hand-organized as many as 5 million vehicles, and his plan and marshalling orders have maintained a 100% accuracy rate.
Every morning, Du Changying is always the first to arrive at the post, turn on the display screen in and out of the station, check the environmental hygiene of the waiting room and toilet, and check whether there are any key trains. She was always the last to leave every night, inspecting the waiting room for any left-behind passengers, whether the bathroom faucet was tightened, and whether the power of the security scanner was turned off, and it was midnight when she got home.
During the Spring Festival, Haishiwan Station sent 1,450 passengers a day, and Du Changying was busy all day long. When she encountered someone who grabbed a point and broke through the turnstile, she patiently explained over and over again, and when she saw her shoes lying on the seat, she stopped it loudly with a serious face, and when she encountered a drunk person who vomited the sink into a mess, she forcibly endured the nausea and cleaned it carefully. When a colleague's little girl was scolded by a passenger and ran to her to cry and complain about her grievances, she was always comforting and enlightened like a drizzle, and everyone affectionately called her "Sister Du".
With a kindness and innocence, from the prime to the frost on the temples, in the morning and dusk of the changing years, Du Changying and Yan Yulin cared for each other, comforted each other, understood each other, and shared the feedback of the years together in the ordinary dedication. Yan Yulin has been rated as an outstanding party member and advanced individual in Xining Railway Depot for many times, and Du Changying has also won the honorary title of advanced female employee and "38 Red Flag Bearer" for many times, and their family has also been rated as a "harmonious family".
Because of love, so persistent. In the past 30 years, Du Changying and Yan Yulin's family of three have only spent 3 Chinese New Year's Eve together. is about to leave the post that has been held for 30 years, and it is true that I am reluctant to do so, and it is also true that I look forward to a reunion year for the family in the future. (Yang Qihong, Zhao Fengbin, Shi Guiyu).