Harbin-Bei'an railway, named the Binbei Railway (), is a double-tracked arterial

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China between Harbin and

Bei'an Bei'an () is a county-level city in west-central Heilongjiang province in the People's Republic of China. It is under the jurisdiction of Heihe. Bei'an was the provincial capital of Bei'an province of Manchukuo, a puppet state set up by Japan durin ...

. At Harbin the line connects to the

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, the

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, and the Binsui Railway, whilst at

Suihua Suihua () is a prefecture-level city in west-central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, adjacent to Yichun to the east, Harbin, the provincial capital, to the south, Daqing to the west and Heihe to the north. It has 3,756,167 inha ...

it connects to the Suijia Railway and at

it connects to the Qibei Railway and the Beihei Railway.

History

The Harbin–Bei'an railway started out as two separate railway lines built by two privately owned railway companies, the Huhai Railway and the Haike Railway. The Huhai Railway was the first self-funded privately owned railway company in

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. It began surveying a line from Songpu to

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in September 1925, opening the line on 15 December 1928. In 1929, the railway's wooden bridge was replaced with a permanent iron bridge. Work on the Haike Railway's line from Hailun to

began in June 1932, and was opened to traffic on a temporary basis in 1 December of the same year. In 1933, after the creation of the

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of Manchukuo, both companies were nationalised by the Manchukuo National Railway, and the two companies' lines were merged to create a single line, called the Binbei Line (Hinboku Line in Japanese). The Manchukuo National continued construction of the Hailun–Bei'an section, replacing the temporary bridges with permanent ones. The line was finally completed in 1935. In August 1945, the

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invaded Manchukuo, taking over management of all railways in the former Manchukuo, creating the China Changchun Railway; the Binbei Line was put under the jurisdiction of the Qiqihar Railway Bureau. The Soviets transferred control of the China Changchun Railway to China in 1955, at which time this line became part of the China Railway system. In 1957, the line was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Harbin Railway Bureau, and double-tracking of the Sankeshu–

section of the line was completed. Double-tracking of the rest of the line was completed in 1962.

Route

References

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