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Chinese Eastern Railway

node · earth · Manchuria — Chita to Nikolsk-Ussuriysky via Harbin

The Russian-built and Russian-operated shortcut that carried the Trans-Siberian across Chinese Manchuria between Chita and the Ussuri line, with Harbin as its junction city. Work began in July 1897 and accelerated after Russia took a 25-year lease of the Liaodong peninsula in 1898; a branch ran south to the ice-free naval base at Lüshun. Traffic opened in 1901 and through passenger working from European Russia to Vladivostok began in July 1903. It was chosen because it was shorter and because the Amur route was harder ground and colder — and it was, in the end, the reason the Trans-Siberian had to be built twice. Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 transferred the southern branch to Japan and demonstrated the cost of routing a strategic main line through somebody else's territory.

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  1. Story
  2. The Russian-built and Russian-operated shortcut that carried the Trans-Siberian across Chinese Manchuria between Chita and the Ussuri line, with Harbin as its junction city. Work began in July 1897 and accelerated after Russia took a 25-year lease of the Liaodong peninsula in 1898; a branch ran south to the ice-free naval base at Lüshun. Traffic opened in 1901 and through passenger working from European Russia to Vladivostok began in July 1903. It was chosen because it was shorter and because the Amur route was harder ground and colder — and it was, in the end, the reason the Trans-Siberian had to be built twice. Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05 transferred the southern branch to Japan and demonstrated the cost of routing a strategic main line through somebody else's territory.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Trans-Siberian Railway
  5. Chinese Eastern Railway
  6. Connections
  7. Trans-Siberian Railway
  8. Trans-Siberian Railway
  9. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
  10. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
  11. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
  12. Vladivostok
  13. Ruling gradient
  14. Moscow
  15. Siberia
  16. Chinese Eastern Railway
  17. The main-line steam locomotive
  18. Chinese Eastern Railway
  19. Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM)
  20. Circum-Baikal Railway
  21. Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
  22. Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
  23. Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
  24. Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
  25. First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
  26. The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
  27. Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
  28. Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
  29. Evidence
  30. 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.
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