The first 1,435 mm standard gauge railway to be built and survive in China was the Kaiping colliery tramway located at Tangshan in Hebei province. However, this was not the very first railway in China
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Stevenson tank locomotive No. 3 with train near Xugezhuang station c. 1882
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Tiantsin railway station with foreign military officers at 1900
Tong King-Sing
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Tang Jingxing, also known as Tang Tingshu, was a Chinese comprador, interpreter, and businessman during the late Qing dynasty. Born in Xiangshan, Guangdong province, he studied in Robert Morrison's mi
Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China
…known as the "Woosung Road Company" was built but then pulled up within less than two years because of Chinese government opposition. Cantonese merchant Tong King-sing (唐景星 a.k.a. Tang Ting-shu 唐廷樞) was a Hong Kong Government interpreter who later became Jardine Matheson & Company’s head comprador at Shanghai. In 1878…
Tang Ting Shu