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Greater East Asia Railroad (大東亜縦貫鉄道, Daitōa Jūkan Tetsudō) was an idea for a railroad linking Japan with the Asian mainland and Europe, formulated in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War leading to World War II. Part of the plan included a tunnel or bridge somewhat similar to the more recent Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel proposal.
Studied routes
editA report published in 1942 titled 大東亜縦貫鉄道に就て (About the Greater East Asia Through Railway) presents the following routes as proposals:
- Daiichi through rail corridor (第1縦貫鉄道群), Connecting Tokyo and Syonan-to
- Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian (present day Shenyang) – Tianjin – Beijing – Hankou – Hengyang – Guilin – Liuzhou – Nanning – Trấn Nam Quan – Xóm Cục – Thakhek – Kumphawapi – Bangkok – Padang Besar – Syonan-to (present day Singapore)
- A separate line to 1. that splits from Tianjin for Nanjing
- Sea route linking Nagasaki to Shanghai that merges to 1.
- Daini through rail corridor (第2縦貫鉄道群), Branch line of Daiichi through railway
- Bangkok – Ban Pong – Thanbyuzayat – Rangoon (present day Yangon) – Kyangin – Chittagong (Partially completed as the military use Thai-Burma Railway)
- Changsha – Changde – Kunming – Lashio – Mandalay – Chittagong
- Daisan through rail corridor (第3縦貫鉄道群), Connection between Japan and its ally Germany
- Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian – Harbin – Manzhouli – Irkutsk – Moscow – Berlin (utilizes the Siberian Railway)
- Tokyo – (Kobe or Moji) – Tianjin – Zhangjiakou – Baotou – Suzhou – Anxi – Hami – Kashgar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin (Trans-Central Asia Railway Project)
- Tokyo – (Nagasaki) – Shanghai – Kunming – Rangoon – Calcutta (present day Kolkata) – Peshawar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin
See also
editReferences
edit- 前間孝則、講談社文庫 (1998). 亜細亜新幹線-幻の東京發北京行き超特急 (in Japanese). Tokyo. ISBN 978-4-06-263702-2.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Tetsudō Shiryō Kenkyūkai (2003). 象は汽車に乗れるか (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB. ISBN 978-4-533-04737-4.