Xugezhuang is a former village (

Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...

: 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 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 ...

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, an ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

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

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

. 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 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 ...

and the river network between

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

and

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popul ...

. 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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