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line's initial five freight cars were converted to passenger use in May 1876, twelve 5 ton–capacity replacements were delivered from Britain shortly later. The foreign diplomats also made no secret of their intention to expand concessions regarding Shanghai into its adjoining territory. During his negotiations over the line, the British secretary Mayers openly claimed that "Woosung is really but a part of the port of Shanghai under the Treaty of Tientsin".
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Meanwhile, the company continued work on the line. On December 1, 1876, the extension to Wusong was completed and opened, with six cars running six round trips daily. By February, demand was great enough to increase the number of cars to nine, necessitating the use of dual locomotives on each run. At
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285,000, payable in three installments over the course of the next year, at which point they would acquire complete ownership and management of the line. Jardine's agreed to sell in the interest of establishing a native rail network it could supply and help capitalize. At then-current exchange rates,
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On August 3, a local man was killed and Chinese troops from the Wusong garrison were stationed along the railway. The train driver David Banks was charged with manslaughter, but tried in a Western tribunal and acquitted on the grounds that the train had sounded and the suspicion the victim had been a
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However, as the foreigners made clear among themselves and to the Chinese, they intended to convert the railway to a freight line, competing with the China Merchants' Steam Navigation Company and forcing the issue of opening Wusong as a continuation of their concessions at Shanghai. Although the
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Moreover, the importance of the line to the foreigners had already allowed Li Hongzheng to interfere with and even usurp Shen's authority within Jiangsu as a corollary to his authority over treaty negotiations. The line's purchases and operation increased property values, but divided farms and
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assisting him and adding public land to the lot. The dibao received 2,950 and 1,200 lashes with a bamboo rod, respectively; Li received only 500 but the experience killed him. The British consul protested returning the land for months, but was forced to yield owing to the fraud and the land's
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met with the circuit intendant of Shanghai six times in mid-April concerning a Chinese purchase of the railway; both concurred in principle but differed on how long Jardine's would continue its management role. Mayers demanded eight years, Feng would only permit three. Adamant objection from
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by Peter Crush (柯睿思) and Baiyu Shang (尚白宇) (downloaded 03.02.2022). A series of research articles on the "researchgate.net" academic website about narrow gauge railways built in China during the Qing dynasty and the early 20th Century. Full texts are available for download from the links.
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The profit of the line made the British expectant of continued Chinese operation: in April, they engaged their foreign employees to another 18 months of service and, in September, ordered a fourth and larger locomotive. The railway's chief engineer, Morrison, even visited the officials at
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made strenuous cases for the adoption of western technology in 1865, cases that were picked up first by Shanghainese merchants and then by the Imperial bureaucracy itself in a heated debate from 1866 to 1867, which ultimately decided to continue opposition to foreign-controlled rail.
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The Chinese authorities took possession of the line in October, 1877, after which Shen had the railway disassembled. He answered the local pro-railroad petition with another which opposed it. At the same time, he also blocked French attempts to open a new road to
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and local businessmen, this section was opened to passenger traffic on July 3. Over the next month, receipts averaged $ 40–60 a day. Business was brisk enough to necessitate adding an extra round trip to the original six on July 22.
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Objections raised then and subsequently included that lines would facilitate foreign interference with – and invasions of – the interior, that railways' straight lines promoted bad
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with a 200-share issue in 1865. Distributing shares to local businessmen did not succeed in winning official approval and land purchases were far more expensive than expected. The company stopped work in 1867.
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to help develop the coal mines there – failed to materialize on account of mishandling during shipment and lack of funds. Instead the equipment was dumped along the shore and left to rust.
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and the local Shanghainese – the ultimate intention would be conversion to rail. As the construction of a Chinese railway was a clear violation of Article VIII of the 1868
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began purchasing and leasing a 15-yard (14 m) –wide strip of land within the American Concession, although it was common knowledge – both among the
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lines to Shanghai in 1870 and its eventual protection by local authorities against theft and disruption in the summer of 1872 suggested a course forward.
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to discuss construction of an extension for the line. A local petition was circulated among the Shanghainese requesting its continued operation.
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Shanghai : a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlements and native city
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noticed that public land at Wusong had been fraudulently sold to the "road" and demanded its repurchase and a ban on any road crossing the
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proximity to numerous official buildings including the Wusong battery and the Baoshan magistrate's office. (Confus, 664–665.)
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Its route – still primarily rural as late as the turn of the century – now forms part of the
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to enter Wusong proper. His subsequent discovery that its conversion to rail had been previously mooted and was known to
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on July 28, 1874, to raise capital for imported British rails and rolling stock, which arrived on December 18, 1875.
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On June 30, 1876, the line was completed as far as Jiangwan. After two days of complimentary and publicity runs for
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A local named Li K'un-yung had leased land belonging to his widowed sister-in-law to the company, with two local
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Nonetheless, officials at Shanghai were repeatedly troubled about constructing a railway between the city and a
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this was equivalent to a £95,000 return on a £20,000 investment. Although Wade had originally only asked for
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port, as the mouth of the Suzhou Creek continued to silt up, obstructing deep-bottomed foreign vessels.
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was established separately to manage purchases and planning for the railway. A third company, the
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300,000 within 24 hours simply to take immediate possession of the line before another incident.
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The Great Northern Telegraph Company: an Outline of the Company's History 1869–1969
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Lightning Wires: the Telegraph and China's Technological Modernization, 1860–1890
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Hart, Robert. Journal entry. 24 July 1865. Op. cit. Smith, Richard J. & al. (eds.)
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Stormogulen: C.F. Tietgen - en Finansmand, Hans Imperium og Hans tid 1829–1901
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The Dragon and the Iron Horse: the Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937
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ran its first trials on about a mile of track on February 14. Within a week, the
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in 1859 and again in 1864. These proposals were rejected even by the foreign-led
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and by March 1865 the company was recruiting thousands of workers directly from
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WOOSUNG ROAD -the story of China's First Railway, Peter Crush, Hong Kong 1999.
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August 1873. The revived company was led by Jardine's British Shanghai chief
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Robert Hart and China's Early Modernization: His Journals, 1863–1866
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The Thistle and the Jade: A Celebration of 175 Years of Jardine Matheson
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in particular started to champion rail connections from the interior to
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The opening of the Woosung Road, as depicted by the September 2, 1876,
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this point, the train had 130 seats and would sometimes carry 250 on
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However, in 1864, American Chinese began to be employed by the
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Remnant of the Tiantong'an Station on the Woosung railway in
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and British ones to extend Markham Road and Cemetery Road.
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suicide. Given the existing tensions, Thomas Wade used the
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Even before realizing a railway was intended, the regional
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of the Great Northern. Concurrently with this revival, the
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In the winter of 1872–1873, the American vice-consul
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and the concessions to foreign traders following the 1842
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Hart, Robert. Letter. Op. cit. in Huenemann (1984), p. 2.
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obstructed existing streams and canals with low bridges.
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The Woosung railway's path now forms the stretch of the
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complained of the closure incessantly, including in the
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concerning the railway and a full-scale mock-up of the
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hammered in the first spike on 20 January 1876. The
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The Great Northern Telegraph Company Centenary Book
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Index

Woosung Road
Shanghai
Songhu railway
Track gauge
2 ft 6 in
Legend
Shanghai
Jiangwan
Wusongkou
Wenzaobang
simplified Chinese
吴淞
铁路
traditional Chinese
吳淞
鐵路
pinyin
2 ft 6 in
narrow-gauge
Shanghai
China
American Concession
Zhabei District
Wusong
Baoshan District
viceroy
Shen Baozhen
Qing dynasty
Shanghai Metro
Line 3

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