Talk:History of rail transport in China

End of steam

There are still steam engines in regular use in many countries for revenue earning purposes on for-profit railways. 2005 thus cannot be the last.

Critique

Please don't nominate incomplete articles and stubs to DYK. This article doesn't even have a lead! We are rewarding incomplete work...

In other ways, however, it's more completely than many other DYK's. Xiner (talk, email) 03:08, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

First railroad

This is odd: numerous Chinese sources including the Chinese Wikipedia claim there was a ½-km exhibition line (the 德小铁路) constructed in Beijing in 1865 by a "British capitalist" named "Durand" (杜兰德) before being dismantled by the emperor.

It seems plausible, but a few fishy aspects: the only prominent Durands at the time were in the British India service or inventing canned goods, the guy's first name is never mentioned, the "sources" in the articles above are all non-scholarly, and of 6000 Google hits for this thing all but 2 are exact copy/pastes of the exact same material. Was this just invented by the Beijing Railway Dep't to knock some of the steam out of the Shanghainese?

English-language sources (who would tend to notice things like failed exhibition railways in the Forbidden City) don't include even so much as a debunking of this thing. — LlywelynII 23:02, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

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"Pioneer"

The arrival of the first locomotive in China, 1876

Do you know anything about "Pioneer"? --NearEMPTiness (talk) 08:35, 11 April 2019 (UTC)