Abstract. The fast railway line B is a high-speed railway passenger
passageway in Beijing, with a total length of 40.75 km. In the plain area,
the railway passes through the land subsidence area of Beijing from south to
north, which poses a certain threat to the normal operation of a high-speed
railway. Using layered monitoring data for the period 2009–2014 from
station A, this paper analyses dynamic changes in the annual subsidence rate
and the rate and percentage of soil deformation at different depths, as well
as the compression deformation law of soil with different lithology and
depth with the change of the water level. The results show that (1) since
2012, the proportion of shallow-layer (≤82 m) compression and
settlement contribution has gradually decreased, while the proportion of
deep-layer (> 82 m) compression has significantly increased; (2) during the deformation process of layered soil, the amount of compression is
closely related to the change of groundwater level; and (3) the shallow, middle
and deep strata show obvious viscoelastic–plastic deformation
characteristics on the whole.