Greater East Asia Railroad

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Greater East Asia Railroad (大東亜縦貫鉄道, Daitōa Jūkan Tetsudō) was an idea for a railroad linking Japan with the Asian mainland and Europe, formulated in 1938 during the Second Sino-Japanese War leading to World War II. Part of the plan included a tunnel or bridge somewhat similar to the more recent Japan–Korea Undersea Tunnel proposal.

Studied routes

A report published in 1942 titled 大東亜縦貫鉄道に就て (About the Greater East Asia Through Railway) presents the following routes as proposals:

  • Daiichi through rail corridor (第1縦貫鉄道群), Connecting Tokyo and Syonan-to
  1. Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian (present day Shenyang) – Tianjin – Beijing – Hankou – Hengyang – Guilin – Liuzhou – Nanning – Trấn Nam Quan – Xóm Cục – Thakhek – Kumphawapi – Bangkok – Padang Besar – Syonan-to (present day Singapore)
  2. A separate line to 1. that splits from Tianjin for Nanjing
  3. Sea route linking Nagasaki to Shanghai that merges to 1.
  • Daini through rail corridor (第2縦貫鉄道群), Branch line of Daiichi through railway
  1. Bangkok – Ban Pong – Thanbyuzayat – Rangoon (present day Yangon) – Kyangin – Chittagong (Partially completed as the military use Thai-Burma Railway)
  2. Changsha – Changde – Kunming – Lashio – Mandalay – Chittagong
  • Daisan through rail corridor (第3縦貫鉄道群), Connection between Japan and its ally Germany
  1. Tokyo – Shimonoseki – Pusan – Fengtian – Harbin – Manzhouli – Irkutsk – Moscow – Berlin (utilizes the Siberian Railway)
  2. Tokyo – (Kobe or Moji) – Tianjin – Zhangjiakou – Baotou – Suzhou – Anxi – Hami – Kashgar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin (Trans-Central Asia Railway Project)
  3. Tokyo – (Nagasaki) – Shanghai – Kunming – Rangoon – Calcutta (present day Kolkata) – Peshawar – Kabul – Baghdad – Istanbul – Berlin

See also

References

  • 前間孝則、講談社文庫 (1998). 亜細亜新幹線－幻の東京發北京行き超特急 (in Japanese). Tokyo. ISBN 978-4-06-263702-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Tetsudō Shiryō Kenkyūkai (2003). 象は汽車に乗れるか (in Japanese). Tokyo: JTB. ISBN 978-4-533-04737-4.


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