China – Shantung Railway – (QingdaoJinan Railway or Jiaoji Railway) 1901. The QingdaoJinan railway or Jiaoji Railway (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: Jiojì Tilù, formerly the Shantung Railway) is a railway in Shandong Province, China. The railway is 393 km in length and connects Qingdao, on the Jiaozhou Bay, and Jinan, the provincial capital of Shandong. Adolph von Hansemann and other German financiers funded construction of the railway, then known as Schantung Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (Shantung Railway Company), which began September 23, 1899, and was completed in 1904. It was originally opened by the German-owned Shantung Railway Company, and after the Germans were defeated in China by the Japanese during the First World War, it passed to Chinese control as the Jiaoji Railway Company. After the Japanese occupation of northern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Jiaoji Railway was nationalised and made part of the North China Transportation Company. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, the railway became part of China Railway. Shantung Railway – (QingdaoJinan Railway or Jiaoji Railway). Type : share, Serie J. 3 until and incl. Quality : VF, folded (see photo). 100 – 350 grams. The item “China Shantung Railway (QingdaoJinan Railway or Jiaoji Railway) 1901″ is in sale since Sunday, October 11, 2020. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Stocks & Bonds, Scripophily\World\Asia”. The seller is “jjursem” and is located in Amstelveen. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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- Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany