Sichuan Railroad Terminal at Yichang

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Title: Sichuan Railroad Terminal at Yichang See all items with this value
Caption: Sichuan Railroad Ichang Terminal See all items with this value
Identifier: SEFA_032
Alternative Identifier: Simpson Album p5
Description: Double photograph creates a panorama of the railroad station, tracks and surrounding terrain. The terminal is a large Western-style brick building surrounded by an expanse of flat land with low hills in the background. The tracks in front of the building are laid in a ditch carved out of the flat land. See all items with this value
Commentary: This impressive building, completed in 1911, serviced a minute stump of the planned Chuan-Han Railway (川汉铁路) railway from Hankow (modern-day Wuhan) to Chengdu. The project was instrumental in fomenting the 1911 Revolution and was aborted shortly after the Qing Dynasty was overthrown. Foreign investment was the cause of contention, leading to the formation of Sichuan’s Railway Protection Movement. Yichang was on a very short segment that was constructed before the revolution. Built on a shoestring budget, the engineering was not sound, and some of the embankments collapsed in a heavy rainfall. The entire project had been converted to roads for vehicular traffic by the mid-1930s. See all items with this value
Date Created: 1913
Location: Yichang, Hubei See all items with this value
Geonames: https://www.geonames.org/1786764/yichang.html
Original Format: Photographic print
Relation: Section of the Chuan-Han Railway (川汉铁路)
Is Part Of: Simpson-Estabrook Photo Album
Transciption: Szchuan Railroad, Ichang Terminal
Source: Courtesy of Kyle Jolliffe
Provenance: Curated by Alice Estabrook Simpson - captions written by her. In the care of Kyle Jolliffe. See all items with this value
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Contributor: Cory Willmott; Kyle Jolliffe
Type: Still Image
References: Early Narrow gauge - Part 4 The Peh-Chuang ( Beichuan) Coal Railway & the aborted Chuan-Han Railway
By Peter Crush [ 柯睿思] With Contributions by Shang Baiyu [尚白宇]; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376379094_Early_Narrow_gauge_-_Part_4_The_Peh-Chuang_Beichuan_Coal_Railway_beichuantielu_the_aborted_Chuan-Han_Railway_chuanhantielu; Elisabeth Kaske. "Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China." In Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911): Metals, Transport, Trade and Society. Edited by Ulrich Theobald and Jin Cao (Brill, 2018), 379–423.

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