Fuyu–Nenjiang railway or Funen railway (), is a
single-track railroad
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in
northeastern
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China
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between
Fuyu and
Nenjiang in
Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost province ...
. The line is long and was built between 1930 and 1937 and rebuilt in 1946.
[ Major towns along route include Fuyu, ]Nehe
Nehe () is a county-level city of western Heilongjiang in Northeast China, It is located near the border with Inner Mongolia to the west and is under the administration of Qiqihar City, to the north-northeast.
Administrative divisions
Nehe C ...
, and Nenjiang.
Line description
In the south, the Funen railway begins in Fuyu as a fork off of the Qiqihar–Bei'an railway. It proceeds northeast along the Nen River
The Nen River or Nenjiang (), or Nonni () is a river in Northeast China. The Nen River flows through the northern part of Heilongjiang Province and the northeastern section of Inner Mongolia, some parts of the river forming the border between the ...
valley to Nehe and then to Nenjiang, where the Nenjiang–Greater Khingan Forest (Nenlin) railway heads northwest to Inner Mongolia and the Nenjiang–Heibaoshan railway branches northeast to Heibaoshan. In recent years, the Funen and Nenlin railroads have been collectively referred to as the Fuyu West (Fuxi) railway ().[(Chinese]
富西线铁路将进行扩能改造
2009-11-06
History
Construction of the Fuyu-Nenjiang began in 1930 when northeastern China was ruled by the Republic of China
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.[(Chinese]
嫩江县铁路(铁路线)---- 富嫩铁路（黑龙江）
2005-09-22 When the Fuyu to Laha section was completed in 1932, the region had fallen to Japan and was nominally ruled by Manchukuo
Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China, Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 afte ...
. In August 1945, the Soviet Union entered World War II in the Pacific Theater and drove Japan
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from Manchuria
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. In April 1946, the retreating Soviet Red Army removed the rail line. In November of that year, the Chinese Communists' Northeast Regional Bureau mobilized 27,898 laborers and 14,311 wagons and had the line rebuilt.[ The line was originally called the Ningnian–Nenjiang railway and took on its current name after Ningnian () was renamed Fuyu.][
]
Rail connections
Nenjiang: Nenjiang–Greater Khingan Forest Railway
Nenjiang–Greater Khingan Forest railway or Nenlin railway (), is a single-track railroad in northeastern China between Nenjiang and the town of Gulian, in Mohe County. It is also known as the ''Nenjiang–Mohe railway'' or ''Nenmo railway'' ...
Fuyu: Qiqihar–Bei'an Railway
See also
* List of railways in China
The following is a list of conventional lines of rail transport in China. For the high-speed network, see List of high-speed railway lines in China.
North–south direction
Beijing-Harbin Corridor
* Jingqin Railway; Beijing-Qinhuangdao 京 ...
References
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Railway lines in China
Rail transport in Heilongjiang