Chinese Eastern Railway
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historical railroad system in northeast China
Key facts
- Traditional chinese
- 中國東省鐵路
- Simplified chinese
- 中国东省铁路
- Hanyu pinyin
- Zhōngguó Dōngshěng tiělù
- Wade giles
- Chung1-kup2 Tung1-sheng3 t'ieh3-lu4
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Heilongjiang
- Owned by
- Manchukuo National Railway
- Image
- Binzhou Railway Bridge.jpg
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- Commons category
- Chinese Eastern Railway
- track gauge
- standard-gauge railway
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1952-12-31
- inception
- 1896-00-00
- date of official opening
- 1901-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The routing of the main line of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Manzhouli to Harbin to Suifenhe), here labelled the Trans-Manchurian Railway, and its southern branch (Harbin to Dalian). After 1905, most of the southern branch (from Changchun to Dalian) became the Japan-run South Manchuria Railway
The Chinese Eastern Railway or CER (Chinese: 中國東省鐵路, Russian: Китайско-Восточная железная дорога, or КВЖД, Kitaysko-Vostochnaya Zheleznaya Doroga or KVZhD), is the historical name for a railway system in Northeast China (also known as Manchuria).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chinese Eastern Railway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.