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Lianyungang Self-driving Tour|Longhai Railway History Museum

|Longhai Railway History Museum.🌟Highlights: The Longhai Railway History Museum, with a large number of precious historical old photos and accompanied by real objects, shows the course of the Longhai Railway from the Manchu and Republic of China, stumbling start, segmented construction, difficult extension, until the founding of New China before the whole line was connected. Tourists here can understand the development process of the Longhai Railway. It came from the weak Qing Dynasty, experienced a hundred years of hardship, and entered the new era of the Eurasian Continental Bridge. Today, more than a century has passed since the construction of the Bianluo Railway, and high-speed trains with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour are flying between the two modern metropolises of Zhengzhou and Xi'an, and this is the most difficult and humiliating Bianluo Railway-Luotong Railway-Tongxi Railway in the history of the Longhai Line. 100 years later, the rolling iron wheels have gradually erased the historical marks engraved on the rails. Today's Longhai Railway is not only the main railway line running through the east, middle and west of China, but also the main artery from Lianyungang, China to Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It is also a new Silk Road. 📍Detailed address: Lianyungang Old Street Seaside Avenue 💰Average consumption: Free ✅Must experience: —Old Lianyungang East Station, a building from the early days of Lianyungang's port construction, the Western-style flat-roofed building has 4 floors, and the east side clock tower has 10 floors, which is one of the landmark buildings of Lianyungang. In 2013, the western half of the old railway station was changed to the Lianyungang Port History Museum, and the eastern half was changed to the Lianyungang History Museum of the Longhai Railway. —Longhai Railway, originally named Longqin Yuha Railway, also known as Hailan Railway, also known as Longhai Line. It spans Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces, with a total length of 1759 kilometers. It started construction in 1905, and after more than 40 years of segmented construction, it was completed in 1952 and opened to traffic in July 1953. The Longhai Railway starts from Lianyungang Station in the east and connects with the seaport; it goes west through Xuzhou, Shangqiu, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Sanmenxia, Weinan, Xi'an, Baoji, Tianshui to Lanzhou, and connects with Lanxin, Baolan, and Lanqing Railways; and intersects with Jinghu, Jingjiu, Jingguang, Jiaozhi, Nantongpu, Xiantong, Baocheng and other railways. It is the most important and important railway line running through the east, middle, and west of China, namely East China, Central China, and Northwest China, and is also an important part of the new Eurasian Continental Bridge from Lianyungang on the Pacific side of China to Rotterdam on the Atlantic side of the Netherlands. Longhai Railway Lianyungang History Museum
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Posted: Feb 19, 2024
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