Shanghai–Nanjing railway

[1][citation needed] The Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway runs along the same route, but on parallel tracks.

Its Chinese name is derived from the character abbreviations Hù (s 沪, t 滬) for Shanghai and Níng (s 宁, t 寧) for Nanjing.

Following China's disastrous failure in the First Sino-Japanese War, however, the Guangxu Emperor approved the construction of the Shanghai–Nanjing line[2] as a western extension of the existing Songhu Railway.

The project was undertaken by the civil engineering partnership Sir John Wolfe-Barry and Lt Col Arthur John Barry at the end of the nineteenth century.

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