Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
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.
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Subjects
- Chinese Eastern Railway · route · China · not located
- Trans-Siberian Railway · route · Russia · not located
- Permafrost as a track foundation · geological and soil phenomenon · Russia · not located
Evidence
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Chinese Eastern Railway
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.
Encyclopaedia Britannica · Verified
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Chinese-Eastern-Railway
Recorded on Chinese Eastern Railway
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins
- Work begins on the Chinese Eastern Railway across Manchuria
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed
- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network
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- Russian Railways abandons Moscow time across the network · 2018-08-01
- Electrification of the Trans-Siberian is completed · 2002
- The Amur Railway completes an all-Russian route to the Pacific · 1916
- First trains run on the Circum-Baikal shore line · 1904-09
- Rails are laid across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal · winter 1903–1904
- Train ferries begin crossing Lake Baikal · 1900
- Construction of the Trans-Siberian begins · 1891