Chinese State Railway Tientsin – Pukow
The Chinese State Railroad Tientsin-Pukow or Jin-Pu-Bahn ( Chinese 津浦 鐵路 , Pinyin Jīnpǔ Tiělù ) is a main railway line in the east of the People's Republic of China , which connects the port city of Tianjin with Pukou near Nanjing in Jiangsu . The line was the middle part of a three-section link Beijing - Shanghai and one of the first rail links in China.
At a conference in London in September 1898, a consortium of British and German investors decided to build a railway from Tianjin to Zhenjiang . In May 1899, the Qing administration decided to take out a series of bank loans to finance the construction of the railway. In 1908 a new terminus of the railway line was established: Pukou (Pukow, Pukau) in Jiangsu Province , on the north bank of the Yangtze River . The contract had Henry Cordes negotiated. Construction of the railway line began in 1908 and was completed in 1912. The original railway line was planned with 85 stations. Of these, 31 stations were built in Shandong Province . Until the construction of the bridge in Nanjing in 1968, rail traffic across the Yangtze had to be carried out by means of a trajectory .
From 1907 to 1909 Lü Haihuan was director of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and supervised its construction. His deputy, Li Deshun, was one of the wealthiest residents of Tsingtau , but was dismissed from his post as vice director of the northern section of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway in June 1909 on charges of presumption and corruption. In 1908 Julius Dorpmüller became the project's chief German engineer. In November 1912, the line went fully into operation with the completion of the Luokou Railway Bridge , the first railway bridge over the Yellow River that the MAN Gustavsburg plant had built. Dorpmüller managed the operation of the railway from 1912.
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- ↑ Max Geitel: Creations of engineering technology of the modern age. BG Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1914, p. # (With Figure 6). ( Limited preview of a 2018 unpaginated reprint on Google Books )
- ^ Alfred Gottwaldt: Dorpmüller's Reichsbahn. The era of the Reich Minister of Transport Julius Dorpmüller 1920–1945. EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2009, p. 13.