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The Shanghai–Nanjing or Huning Railway〔Chinese: t , s , p ''Hù–Níng Tiělù''.〕 is a standard-gauge railway in China running from Shanghai to Nanjing. The railway is about long. The Huning line is one of the busiest in China. The Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity High-Speed Railway runs along the same route, but on parallel tracks. Its Chinese name is derived from the character abbreviations ''Hù'' (s , t ) for Shanghai and ''Níng'' (s , t ) for Nanjing. ==History== Such a railway had long been desired by Western interests in 19th-century China and just as long opposed by the Qing government. Following China's disastrous failure in the First Sino-Japanese War, however, the Guangxu Emperor approved the construction of the Shanghai–Nanjing line〔"(京沪铁路的历史变迁 )". 〕 as a western extension of the existing Songhu Railway. The project was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the end of the nineteenth century.〔Frederick Arthur Crisp ''Visitation of England and Wales'', Volume 14, London (1906)〕 Its former eastern terminus at the Old North Station in Shanghai's Zhabei District (the former American district of the International Settlement) is now the Shanghai Railway Museum. From 1928 to 1949, while ''Nan''jing was the capital of the Republic, the line was known as the Jinghu Railway,〔Chinese: t , s , p ''Jīng–Hù Tiělù''.〕 a name now reserved for the line between ''Bei''jing and Shanghai. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shanghai–Nanjing Railway」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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