Xugezhuang is a former village (

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: t , s , p ''Xūgèzhuāng'') and modern

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

(, ''Xūgèzhuāng Zhèn'') of Fengnan District in

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0 ...

, China. It was the terminus of the second railway to be constructed in China after the abortive

Woosung Railway The Woosung railway ( Chinese: s , t , p ''Wúsōng Tiělù'')Also Wusong Road or Woo Sung RailwayIt is sometimes also called the Songhu railway, although that name more properly refers to the 1890s railway which ran principally along the same ...

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. The six-mile Kaiping Tramway opened to traffic in 1881 and ran from the collieries at

Tangshan Tangshan () is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in the central area of the Boha ...

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 Lutai () is a town in and the seat of Ninghe District, in the northeast of Tianjin, People's Republic of China. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was the terminus for the Lutai Canal and the first extension of the Kaiping Tramway. By r ...

and the river network between

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and

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. It eventually grew into the Imperial Railways of North China and the modern Jingshan and

Jingha Railway Jingha may refer to: * Jingha Expressway, expressway in China that links Beijing to Harbin * Jingha railway, railway in China that connects Beijing with Harbin {{Disambig ...

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

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