The Shanghai–Nanjing or Huning Railway Chinese: t , s , p ''Hù–Níng Tiělù''. is a railway in

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running from

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, capital of Jiangsu province. The railway is about long. The Huning line is one of the busiest in China. The

Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway The Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway or Huning intercity railway () is a -long high-speed rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province. and are shorthand Chinese names for Shanghai and Nanjing, respectively. T ...

runs along the same route, but on parallel tracks. Its Chinese name is derived from the character abbreviations '' Hù'' ( s , t ) for Shanghai and '' Níng'' ( s , t ) for Nanjing.

History

Such a railway had long been desired by Western interests in 19th-century China and just as long opposed by the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the ...

government. Following China's disastrous failure in the

First Sino-Japanese War The First Sino-Japanese War (25 July 189417 April 1895), or the First China–Japan War, was a conflict between the Qing dynasty of China and the Empire of Japan primarily over influence in Joseon, Korea. In Chinese it is commonly known as th ...

, however, the

Guangxu Emperor The Guangxu Emperor (14 August 1871 – 14 November 1908), also known by his temple name Emperor Dezong of Qing, personal name Zaitian, was the tenth Emperor of China, emperor of the Qing dynasty, and the ninth Qing emperor to rule over China ...

approved the construction of the Shanghai–Nanjing line as a western extension of the existing Songhu Railway. The project was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the end of the nineteenth century.Frederick Arthur Crisp ''Visitation of England and Wales'', Volume 14, London (1906) Its former eastern terminus at the Old North Station in Shanghai's Zhabei District (the former American district of the International Settlement) is now the Shanghai Railway Museum. From 1928 to 1949, while Nanjing was the capital of the

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, the line was known as the Jinghu Railway, Chinese: t , s , p ''Jīng–Hù Tiělù''. a name now reserved for the line between ''Bei''jing and Shanghai. In 2007 during the Sixth Railway Speed-Up Campaign, the line was organized into the

Beijing–Shanghai railway The Beijing–Shanghai railway or Jinghu railway () is a railway line between Beijing and Shanghai. The line has a total length of and connects the municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, ...

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