South Manchurian Railway

Headquarters of the South Manchurian Railway

"ASIA-Gō" high-speed traffic

500 yen share of South Manchuria Railway Co. Ltd. from 1920

The South Manchurian Railway Corporation ( Japanese 南満州鉄道株式会社 / 南満洲鉄道株式会社 Minami-Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki kaisha ; abbreviated 満鉄 Mantetsu ) was one of the Japanese Empire in 1906, after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) , railway company established in Dalian .

history

The company operated in the Japanese-occupied Manchuria . It took over the Transmanjurian railway line from Harbin to Port Arthur , which was previously built by Russia, and switched it from Russian broad gauge to standard gauge . The first president of the society was Gotō Shimpei .

Since the annexation of Korea by Japan until 1925, you were also subject to two routes in the north of Chosen (Korea) .

Kankyo -distance	Yujo - Hoeryong 42 ° 26 '34 " N , 129 ° 45' 3" O42.442777777778 129.75083333333	106 km including branches
Tomon route	Kainei - Yuki	223 km including branches

In December 1926 a serious railway accident occurred when a passenger and freight train collided. 25 people died and 54 were also injured.

After the Japanese occupation of Java , the South Manchurian Railway received numerous captured standard gauge locomotives from the Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg , as the tracks there were converted to Cape gauge . The South Manchurian Railroad Corporation was declared dissolved by the American occupation government after the end of World War II in 1945 and taken over by the Red Army .

Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .

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↑ December 8 and / or 11, 1926. Semmens, p. 80, assumes two accidents. However, he gives the exact same number of fatalities and injuries for both accidents, which speaks more for an accident and an incorrect date.