正阳门东站

正阳门东站 in Beijing centers on September 24, 1905, when five Qing officials boarded a train here for a study tour of Western constitutions, and a young revolutionary named Wu Yue pushed through the crowd carrying a homemade bomb meant for them. The guide also follows the terminus itself through the decades after, from student protests against Japan's seizure of Manchuria to warlords camped in its halls. Stand beneath the seven-story clock tower as you listen.