What railways were built in China before 1949?

With the appearance of Wusong Railway in 1876, before the establishment of New China in 1949, the railway in Chinese mainland was only over 23,500 kilometers.

During the Qing Dynasty, China Oriental Province Railway with a gauge of 1.524mm was built by Russia, with a total length of 1.5 14.39km and a branch line south of Manzhouli of 974.9 km. The two railways form a T-shaped layout and are directly operated by Russia.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Japan built a narrow gauge railway (762mm) from Anton (now Dandong) to Fengtian (Shenyang) in the northeast of China, with a total length of 26 1km, and a narrow gauge railway (1067mm) from Fengtian to Xinmin (now Xinmin) with a total length of 60km.

The Ji Jiao Railway built by German in Shandong includes Qingdao-Jinan 394. 1 km, Jaco branch line 39.2 km and Zichuan-Hongshan branch line 7.4 km.

The Yunnan-Vietnam narrow gauge railway (1000mm) built by France runs directly from Haiphong, Vietnam to Kunming, Yunnan.

The Ruhan Railway controlled by Belgium in the name of loan was later renamed Han Jing Railway. From Qianmen West Station in Beijing to Yudaimen Station in Hankou, the total length is 12 14.5 km, plus five branch lines * * *131.4km..

Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, controlled by Britain in the name of loan, has a total length of 3 1 1km from Shanghai to Nanjing, and the length of Hu Song branch line is 16.9km.

The Jin-Zhen Railway jointly controlled by Britain and Germany in the name of loan was later changed to Jin-Pu Railway. Tianjin to Pukou, total length 1009.5 km. The Kowloon Railway built in Britain is 35.8 kilometers long.

The Luoyang section of Longhai Railway (Liang, now Kaifeng) built by Belgium, opened (sealed) Xuzhou section, 276.8 kilometers long, and Luoyang (Yangguan) section, 29.6 kilometers long.

The Guan (Shaanxi) section and Xu (Zhou) Hai (Zhou) section of Longhai Railway, built with loans from Belgium and the Netherlands, have a total length of 198.3 km.

The Feng (Tai) Bao (Tou) section of the (North) Jing-Sui (Yuan, now Hohhot) Railway, which was built by borrowing from Japan, has a total length of 8 17.9 km.

The Wu (Chang)-Sha (Sha) section of the Guangdong-Han Railway, which was built by a consortium of Britain, France, Germany and the United States, has a total length of 365 kilometers.

The Chongqing (Shanping) (Hunan) section of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi (Hangzhou) Railway, jointly invested and built by German and Shanghai China Banking Group, is 550 kilometers long.

Britain asked China to use boxer indemnity to purchase equipment. The section from Zhu (Zhou) to Shao (Guan) of Guangdong-Han Railway is 455.7 kilometers long.

During the period from the September 18th Incident to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War 14, Japanese imperialism built nearly 5,700 kilometers of railways in the occupied areas of Northeast China and 900 kilometers in the occupied areas of Shanhaiguan.