Beijing–Shanghai Railway

Beijing–Shanghai Railway
The Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, an important part of the railway, was opened for traffic in 1968
Overview
Type	Heavy rail
System	China Railways
Status	In operation
Locale	People's Republic of China
Termini	Beijing Shanghai
Operation
Opened	1912 (first section) 1968 (whole line)
Operator(s)	China Railways
Technical
Line length	1,462 km (908 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Operating speed	160–200 km/h (99–124 mph)
Route map (selected stations) km 0 Beijing 73 Langfang Yangcun 136 Tianjing West Jinghai Qingxian 251 Cangzhou Botou Dongguang Wuqiao 366 Dezhou Jinan Yellow River New Bridge 484 Jinan 556 Taishan Ciyao 640 Yanzhou Zoucheng Tengzhou Zoucheng 735 Zaozhuang West 803 Xuzhou 877 Suzhou Bengbu Huai River Bridge 968 Bengbu Chuzhou North Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge 1150 Nanjing Qixia Mountain Tunnel 1214 Zhenjiang Danyang 1286 Changzhou 1325 Wuxi 1368 Suzhou 1402 Kunshan 1451 Shanghai This diagram:

The Beijing–Shanghai Railway or Jinghu railway (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: 京滬鐵路; pinyin: ) is a railway line in China between Beijing and Shanghai.

The line has a total length of 1,462 kilometres and connects the municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu. It is commonly referred to as the Jinghu Railway, taking on the abbreviated names of the two terminal cities. In Chinese, Jing means "capital" and refers to Beijing, and Hu is the abbreviated name for Shanghai.

The Beijing–Shanghai railway is composed of three sections. These three sections are some of the earliest railways in China, built before 1910 during the Qing dynasty. The first section is from Beijing to Tianjin, constructed as part of the Imperial Railways of Northern China between 1897 and 1900.

The second section is from Tianjin to Pukou – a suburb of Nanjing – and used to be called the Tianjin–Pukou Railway.

The third section is from Nanjing to Shanghai, built between 1905 and 1908. This section is called Shanghai–Nanjing Railway. During 1927–1949, however, when China's capital was Nanjing, this section alone was called the "Jinghu" railway.