South Manchurian Railway
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" O | 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 .
See also
- Twenty One Claims (1915)
- Mukden Incident (1931)
- Manchuria Crisis (1931)
literature
- Peter WB Semmens: Disasters on the rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 .
Web links
- Railways in China (Wikipedia)
Remarks
- ↑ 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.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Trans-Siberian Express. trains-worldexpresses.com; Retrieved July 30, 2013
- ↑ Semmens, p. 80.