Sichuan Railroad Terminal at Yichang

Item

Title
Sichuan Railroad Terminal at Yichang
Caption
Sichuan Railroad Ichang Terminal
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.
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.
Date Created
1913
Location
Yichang, Hubei
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.
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.
Item sets
Simpson-Estabrook Family Archives
Media
SEFA_032_Simpson Album p5 Sichuan Railroad Ichang Terminal.jpg

Linked resources

Items with "Relation: Sichuan Railroad Terminal at Yichang"
Title Class
Section of the Chuan-Han Railway (川汉铁路) Image