Xugezhuang is a former village (

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: t , s , p ''Xūgèzhuāng'') and modern town (, ''Xūgèzhuāng Zhèn'') of

Fengnan District Fengnan District () is a district of Tangshan, Hebei, China on the coast of the Bo Sea and bordering Tianjin to the west. Administrative divisions Subdistricts: * Xugezhuang Subdistrict () Towns: * Fengnan Town (), Daodi (), Qianying (), Ta ...

in Hebei,

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. It was the terminus of the second railway to be constructed in China after the abortive Woosung Railway in Shanghai. The six-mile

Kaiping Tramway Often described as China's first railway, the first railway to be built and survive in China was the Kaiping (開平) colliery tramway located at Tongshan in Hebei province. However, this was not the first railway in China. An earlier attempt to i ...

opened to traffic in 1881 and ran from the collieries at Tangshan to Xugezhuang (then known as Hsuokochuang),Huenemann, Ralph Wm. Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 109.
The Dragon and the Iron Horse: the Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937
', p. 254. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1984. . Accessed 12 October 2011. whence a canal connected it to Lutai and the river network between Beijing and Tianjin. It eventually grew into the

Imperial Railways of North China Often described as China's first railway, the first railway to be built and survive in China was the Kaiping (開平) colliery tramway located at Tongshan in Hebei province. However, this was not the first railway in China. An earlier attempt to i ...

and the modern Jingshan and Jingha Railways.

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Township-level divisions of Hebei Tangshan {{Tangshan-geo-stub

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