The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway starts from Fengtai, Beijing, and ends at Zhangjiakou, Hebei. It started on September 4th. 1905. Completed in August 1909+0 1. This is the first railway trunk line designed and built by China people themselves. At that time, the Qing government appointed Zhan Tianyou as the chief engineer of Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau. The most famous railway project between Beijing and Zhangjiakou is the herringbone railway at Qinglongqiao Station.
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Jing-Zhang Railway is the first railway in China, which is built and managed by Zhan Tianyou. It connects Fengtai District of Beijing, passes Badaling, Juyongguan, Shacheng and Xuanhua to Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, with a total length of about 200 kilometers. 1905 started in September and was completed in less than four years 1909.
It is the first railway in China designed and put into operation by China people without using foreign capital and personnel. This railway project is arduous. Now it is called beijing-baotou railway, and the former Jingzhang section was the first section of beijing-baotou railway. The Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway was blocked by the Qing government by colonialists such as Britain and Russia, and Zhan Tianyou was appointed as the chief engineer of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau (later as the general manager of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau).