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151: 434: 36: 142: 460:. At Nanping, the railway turns to the southwest, following the Shaxi River through central Fujian to Yong'an. From Yong'an, the railway runs south to Zhangzhou and then east to Xiamen. Until January 2010, the railway was connected to the island of Xiamen via causeway from the mainland. On January 31, 2010, the Yingxia railway switched route to the newly opened Xinglin Railway Bridge. The line formerly continued past 649: 544:. As many as 12 divisions would be involved in the construction effort. Another 100,000 civilian workers also joined the effort. The railway passed through mountainous terrain that complicated building efforts and required explosives to level mountains and blast tunnels, and significant bridge-building. In October 1955, the Defense Minister 535:
The Eastern Route was selected because it was the shortest and least expensive to build. The railway was intended to serve dual purposes of national defense and regional development. The coast of Fujian opposite of Taiwan was then a defensive frontline against the Nationalist Chinese government on
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requested that the railway be completed one year ahead of schedule and building efforts were expedited. The first tracks were laid in Xiamen in December 1956 and the entire Yingxia Railway was completed in 1957. It was the first railway to be built in Fujian province. Surplus funds and manpower
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Eastern Route running from Yingtan in Jiangxi province, on the existing Zhejiang–Jiangxi railway, to Zixi and then entering northern Fujian and passing through Nanping and Sanming in central Fujian before reaching Zhangzhou and Xiamen in southern
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at Yingtan in Jiangxi province and proceeds south to Zixi on the border with Fujian province. From Zixi, the railway follows Futun Stream, a headwater tributary of the
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said the proposal could not be implemented immediately, but was nonetheless supportive. Planning of the railway began in 1951 under
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on the Jiangxi side of the Jiangxi-Fujian border to Ruijin before turning east into southern Fujian, reaching, Xiamen on the coast.
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Taiwan. Construction began in February 1955 under the joint-leadership of the Fujian People's Government and the
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for 4.5 kilometres (2.8 miles). This section was abandoned in the 1980s and opened as a
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in his plan to build the Chinese nation. In October 1949, at the inaugural
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The Yingxia railway was electrified in sections from 1986 to 1993.
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In the north, the Yingtan–Xiamen railway branches from the
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The Yingtan–Xiamen railway was originally proposed by
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