Jinan railway station ( Chinese : 济南站 ) is a railway station in Jinan , Shandong , China . It is on both the Beijing-Shanghai Railway and Qingdao-Jinan Passenger Railway . It accommodates intercity High Speed services towards destinations as Qingdao , Qingdao North , Yantai , Weihai , Rongcheng and Longkou .
6-517: The predecessor of the current station was constructed in 1912. Serving the Jinpu Railway (Reorganised as part of Beijing-Shanghai Railway in 2007), it was designed by German architect Hermann Fischer. It was controversially demolished and rebuilt in 1992. Between 1915 and 1937, Jinan was home to another railway station of the same name, which served as the western terminus for the Jiaoji Railway ,
12-526: A railway from Tianjin to Zhenjiang . In May 1899, the Qing government agreed to the financing of the railway construction along with a series of bank loans. The proposed course for the railway was to connect the political center of China in the north to the economic hub in the southern region, as well as the Yangtze River . Construction of the railway began in 1908 and the line was completed in 1912. All together,
18-502: A railway station in Shandong is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tianjin%E2%80%93Pukou railway The Tianjin–Pukou or Jinpu railway ( Postal spelling : Tientsin-Pukow Railway ; simplified Chinese : 津浦铁路 ; traditional Chinese : 津浦鐵路 ; pinyin : Jīnpǔ Tiělù ) runs from Tianjin to Pukou district outside Nanjing in Jiangsu province. Pukou was
24-600: The 1860s with opposition from the elite, who worried that it would increase the likelihood of regime change. However, following China's loss in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, the desire to modernize began to predominate. However, due to technical and financial constraints, foreign support was needed to build the earliest railways. At a conference in London in September 1898, British and German capitalists decided to build
30-679: The nearest station to Nanjing on the left bank (west or north bank) of the Yangtze River from central Nanjing, which lies on the right bank (east or south bank). For most of the 20th century, rail carriages were ferried across the river to continue their journey into Nanjing and then on to Shanghai . Since 1968, when a bridge was built across the river, the Jinpu railway has formed part of the Beijing–Shanghai railway , connecting China's two largest cities. The first proposals to build railways in China began in
36-520: The station building of which is still extant and has since turned into a museum. It is planned to build a new station building to the north of the railway. Construction is expected to begin in January 2023. The station is served by Jinan Railway Station North station on Line 2 of the Jinan Metro . [REDACTED] Media related to Jinan Railway Station at Wikimedia Commons This article about
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