Qingdao–Jinan Railway
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The Qingdao–Jinan Railway or Jiaoji Railway (simplified Chinese: 胶济铁路; traditional Chinese: 膠濟鐵路; pinyin: Jiāojì Tiělù, formerly the Shantung Railway) is railway in Shandong Province, China. The railway is 393 km in length and connects Qingdao, on the Jiaozhou Bay, and Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong. Adolph von Hansemann and other German financiers funded construction of the railway, then known as Schantung Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, which began September 23, 1899, and was completed in 1904.[1]
Rail connections
- Jinan: Beijing–Shanghai Railway, Handan–Jinan Railway
- Zibo: Zibo–Dongying Railway
- Lancun: Lancun–Yantai Railway
- Jiaozhou: Jiaozhou–Xinyi Railway
Incidents
- 2008 Shandong train collision
References
- ↑ (Chinese) Accessed 2011-07-01
See also
- Qingdao–Jinan High-Speed Railway - new high-speed railway along a parallel route
- List of railways in China
- Rail transport in the People's Republic of China
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