- Tam Lung Station (Thuy Hung commune, Cao Loc district) is a small station located on the Hanoi -Lang Son railway line. From 1927-1928, it became a secret reception point for patriotic Vietnamese youth going to China to carry out revolutionary activities. This is also a place that marks the activities of Comrade Hoang Van Thu and other Vietnamese revolutionary fighters in the years before and after the founding of the Party in 1930.
In the late 19th century, the French colonialists built the Hanoi- Lang Son railway to serve their exploitation of their colony in Indochina. The line began in Gia Lam and ended in Dong Dang. By 1921, the section from Dong Dang to Na Sam was completed. The Hanoi-Dong Dang-Na Sam railway became a vital transportation artery connecting Hanoi to the Sino-Vietnamese border. Within the province, the people of Lang Son also frequently traveled on this route.
From 1927, the activities of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association spread from Guangzhou to the Longzhou-Lungyu region (China), and Bui Ngoc Thanh became the organization's representative in this area. When the association opened revolutionary training classes in Ban Day – a secret base about 7 km from the Vietnam-China border – many patriotic Vietnamese youth sought to join the organization or attend the training classes. As a border province adjacent to Longzhou (China), Lang Son became a key transportation and communication hub between Vietnam and abroad. Patriotic youth from other provinces traveling to Ban Day for training all passed through Lang Son. The train stations of Ky Lua, Tam Lung, Dong Dang, Pac Luong, Na Sam, etc., became reception points and "secret mailboxes" for cadres of the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association when traveling to and from the area for their activities. Because the main stations were frequently guarded and searched for by French secret agents, many people often got off at smaller stations to avoid being tracked down.
Tam Lung Station (about 4-5 km from the border) was a place where revolutionary activists often disembarked from trains. Here, members of the organization would wait to meet them and guide them through border villages into China. Mr. Linh Tac Soi (a Chinese man from the border region) was one of the people who specialized in guiding patriotic Vietnamese to China to carry out revolutionary activities.
The "new winds" from the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association across the border had a strong impact on the patriotic movement in Lang Son. In 1928, Comrade Hoang Van Thu and many patriotic young people from Lang Son boarded and disembarked trains at Tam Lung station to find a way to join the organization across the border. According to documents archived at the Vietnam National Historical Museum, "In the 1930s, Tam Lung station was where Comrade Hoang Van Thu boarded a train to China to carry out revolutionary activities." Lang Son became one of the localities with an early and strong revolutionary movement. Today, at the Tam Lung station site, the inscription reads: "Tam Lung Station – From 1928, this was a secret reception station for patriotic young people going to work in the border region." During the 1979 border war, this was also the site of battles in which the soldiers and civilians of Lang Son province repelled numerous enemy attacks towards Lang Son town. Based on the significance and value of the site, on October 2, 2002, the People's Committee of Lang Son province issued Decision No. 41/2002/QD-UB recognizing this historical site as a provincial-level historical monument.
Today, the Tam Lung Railway Station relic is located in Po Nghieu village, Thuy Hung commune, Cao Loc district, 8 km north of Lang Son city. The relic is situated right next to the Hanoi-Lang Son railway and expressway, near the intersection of the old National Highway 1A and the Hanoi-Lang Son railway. Nearby is a turnoff to Con Pheo and Phu Xa; it is about 2 km from the Hang Pai communal house relic – where the first Party branch of Lang Son was established. Currently, it is no longer a train station, and there are no traces of the old station building left. Only a railway management and security cabin and plaques bearing the name and introduction of the relic, commemorating the event, remain.
Tam Lung Station is one of the province's most valuable revolutionary historical sites, bearing the imprint of the activities of Vietnamese and Lang Son revolutionary fighters before and after the establishment of the Party, associated with the revolutionary activities of the province's first Party members: Hoang Van Thu, Luong Van Tri, Doan Viet Tho... and other patriots. It is also the origin of the first Party branch in Lang Son in mid-1933 – the Thuy Hung branch, with Comrade Hoang Van Thu as its secretary.
Source: https://baolangson.vn/di-tich-ga-tam-lung-noi-in-dau-hoat-dong-cua-cac-chien-sy-cach-mang-thoi-ky-truoc-va-sau-thanh-lap-dang-nam-1930-5049594.html
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