Beijing – Shanghai railway line

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This article describes the conventional railway line between Beijing and Shanghai opened in 1968; the high-speed line between Beijing and Shanghai opened in 2011 is treated as the high-speed line Beijing-Shanghai .

Beijing – Shanghai
The Nanjing-Yangtze Bridge , opened in 1968, is part of the Beijing – Shanghai railway line.
Route length:	1462 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Legend km (only the main train stations shown) 0 Beijing 73 Long catch Yangcun 136 Tianjing West Jinghai Qing 251 Cangzhou Botou Dongguang Wuqiao 366 Dezhou Luokou Railway Bridge (1,255 m) Yellow River 484 Jinan 556 Taishan Watang – Rizhao railway line (coal railway) Ciyao 640 Yanzhou Zoucheng Tengzhou Zoucheng 735 Zaozhuang West 803 Xuzhou 877 Suzhou Bengbu Huai River Bridge 968 Bengbu Chuzhou North Nanjing-Yangtze Bridge (6,772 m) Yangtze River 1150 Nanjing Qixia Shan tunnel 1214 Zhenjiang Danyang 1286 Changzhou 1325 Wuxi 1368 Suzhou 1402 Kunshan 1451 Shanghai

The Beijing – Shanghai railway , also Jinghu Railway ( Chinese  chines 铁路 , Pinyin Jīnghù Tiělù ), is a 1462 km long railway line opened continuously in 1968 between the Chinese capital Beijing and the east Chinese port city of Shanghai .

history

The line consists of three sections, which are among the oldest railway lines in China, which were built before 1910 during the Qing Dynasty . The first section runs from Beijing to Tianjin and was built as part of the Imperial Chinese Northern Railways between 1897 and 1900. The middle section was the former Tientsin – Pukow Chinese State Railway , which was completed in 1912. The third section between Nanjing and Shanghai was built between 1905 and 1908. Until 1968 there was a trajectory across the Yangtze between Pukou and Xiaguan . Only with the construction of the Nanjing-Yangtze Bridge was this ferry service replaced and the three sections merged to form the continuous Beijing-Shanghai rail link.