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Chitchat Good News! China-Laos Railway Opens with Laotian ChioBUs Ready!
- Thread starter Pinkieslut
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High speed rail to laos. Thst just shows how clever the chinese are.
In a way, yes. The Qing gahmen borrowed a lot money from the westerners during the 1880s to pay for railway. The Qing gahmen collapsed by 1911, and the good white people were left with a lot of bad debts from a defunct chink gahmen.
The first railway to endure was the Kaiping Tramway and Imperial Railways of North China constructed by British engineer Claude William Kinder. Initially, a 10 kilometre (6.2 mi) line from Tangshan to Xugezhuang built in 1881 to transport coal from the coal mine in Tangshan, this line was extended to Tianjin in 1888 and Shanhaiguan and Suizhong in 1894. This railway became known as the "Guanneiwai Railway" (literally, inner and outer Shanhaiguan railway). The railway was backed by the powerful Viceroy of Zhili, Li Hongzhang, who overcame objections from conservative ministers. To secure the support of the Empress Dowager for railway construction, Li Hongzhang imported a small train set from Germany and built a 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) narrow gauge railway from her residence in Zhongnanhai to her dining hall in Beihai in 1888.[10] The Empress, concerned that the locomotive's noise would disturb the geomancy or fengshui of the imperial city, required the train be pulled by eunuchs instead of steam engine.[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_rail_transport_in_China
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