Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria

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1. Story
2. Russia begins the Manchurian shortcut from Tarskaya east of Chita through Hailar and Harbin to Nikolsk-Ussuriysky, choosing it over the Amur alignment because it is shorter and the Amur ground is worse. Work accelerates after Russia takes a 25-year lease of Liaodong in 1898, and a branch is driven south to the ice-free naval base at Lüshun. Traffic opens in 1901; through passenger running from European Russia to Vladivostok begins in July 1903.
3. Knowledge
4. Trans-Siberian Railway
5. Chinese Eastern Railway
6. Permafrost as a track foundation
7. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
8. Connections
9. Chinese Eastern Railway
10. Trans-Siberian Railway
11. Permafrost as a track foundation
12. Trans-Siberian Railway
13. Trans-Siberian Railway
14. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
15. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
16. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
17. Vladivostok
18. Ruling gradient
19. Moscow
20. Siberia
21. Chinese Eastern Railway
22. The main-line steam locomotive
23. Chinese Eastern Railway
24. Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
25. Circum-Baikal Railway
26. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
27. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
28. Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
29. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
30. First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
31. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
32. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
33. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
34. Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
35. Siberia
36. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
37. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
38. Evidence
39. Supports the CER as the Russian-built Manchurian shortcut of the Trans-Siberian, chosen over the Amur alignment for distance and terrain, with the southern branch transferred to Japan after the Russo-Japanese War. V55 verification basis: the substance was carried in an attributed search result naming Britannica; the page could not be fetched.