Fuyu–Nenjiang railway or Funen railway (), is a
single-track railroad
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...
in
northeastern China
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between
Fuyu and
Nenjiang in
Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China. It is the northernmost and easternmost province of the country and contains China's northernmost point (in Mohe City along the Amur) and easternmost point (at the confluence of the Amur and Ussu ...
. The line is long and was built between 1930 and 1937 and rebuilt in 1946.
[ Major towns along route include Fuyu, Nehe, 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 ( zh, c=, p=Nèn Jiāng, w=Nen-chiang), 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 ...
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 known as the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of Great Manchuria thereafter, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Northeast China that existed from 1932 until its dissolution in 1945. It was ostens ...
. 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
Fuyu: Qiqihar–Bei'an Railway
See also
* List of railways in China
References
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Railway lines in China
Rail transport in Heilongjiang