page_title: Beijing–Hankou railway
hierarchical_section_title: Beijing–Hankou railway
caption_attribution_description: English: The disused Hankou Dazhimen Station - the original terminal of the Beijing to Hankou Railway 中文: 大智门火车站旧址（1900-1991）在汉口。
context_page_description: The Beijing–Hankou or Jinghan railway, also Peking–Hankow railway, was the former name of the railway in China from Beijing to Hankou, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River. The railway was built between 1897 and 1906 by a Belgian company backed by French financing. At Hankou, railway carriages were ferried across the Yangtze River to Wuchang on the southern bank, where they would connect to the Guangdong–Hankou railway. The completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in 1957 linked the two railways into a single contiguous railway known as the Beijing–Guangzhou railway.
  From 1928 to 1945, when Beijing was known as Beiping, the Beijing–Hankou railway was known as the Beiping–Hankou or Pinghan railway. During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese advance into central China was known as the Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation.
context_section_description: The Beijing–Hankou or Jinghan railway (simplified Chinese: 京汉铁路; traditional Chinese: 京漢鐵路; pinyin: Jīnghàn Tiělù), also Peking–Hankow railway, was the former name of the railway in China from Beijing to Hankou, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River.  The railway was built between 1897 and 1906 by a Belgian company backed by French financing.  At Hankou, railway carriages were ferried across the Yangtze River to Wuchang on the southern bank, where they would connect to the Guangdong–Hankou railway.  The completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in 1957 linked the two railways into a single contiguous railway known as the Beijing–Guangzhou railway.
  From 1928 to 1945, when Beijing was known as Beiping, the Beijing–Hankou railway was known as the Beiping–Hankou or Pinghan railway.  During the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese advance into central China was known as the Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation.
caption: The old Dazhimen Station (大智门火车站), the original Hankou terminus of the Jinghan railway. Constructed in 1900–1903, it was closed in 1991, after the opening of the present Hankou railway station
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