Xugezhuang is a former village () and modern

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Fengnan District Fengnan District () is a District (China), district of Tangshan, Hebei, China on the coast of the Bohai Sea and bordering Tianjin to the west. The district spans an area of , and has a population of approximately 530,000 as of 2012. Toponymy Fe ...

Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

. It was the terminus of the second railway to be constructed in China after the abortive

Woosung Railway The Woosung railway ()Also Wusong Road or Woo Sung RailwayIt is sometimes also called the Songhu railway, although that name more properly refers to the 1890s railway which ran principally along the same route. was a 19th-century, narrow-gauge p ...

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 ...

. The six-mile Kaiping Tramway opened to traffic in 1881 and ran from the collieries at

Tangshan Tangshan ( zh, c=唐山 , p=Tángshān) is a coastal, industrial prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. It is located in the eastern part of Hebei Province and the northeastern part of the North China Plain. It is located in t ...

to Xugezhuang (then known as Hsuokochuang),Huenemann, Ralph Wm. Harvard East Asian Monographs, No. 109.
The Dragon and the Iron Horse: the Economics of Railroads in China, 1876–1937
', p. 254. Harvard Univ Asia Center, 1984. . Accessed 12 October 2011. whence a canal connected it to Lutai and the river network between

Beijing Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...

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Tianjin Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...

. It eventually grew into the Imperial Railways of North China and the modern Jingshan and

Jingha Railway Jingha may refer to: *Jingha Expressway, expressway in China that links Beijing to Harbin *Jingha railway, railway in China that connects Beijing with Harbin {{Disambig ...

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Township-level divisions of Hebei Tangshan {{Tangshan-geo-stub

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