Yingtan–Xiamen railway

In the north, the Yingtan–Xiamen railway branches from the Zhejiang–Jiangxi railway 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 Min River in a southeasterly course, through the Wuyi Mountains of northern Fujian, to Nanping. 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 Xiamen railway station for . This section was abandoned in the 1980s and opened as a linear park called Xiamen Railway Cultural Park in 2010. ==History==

The Yingtan–Xiamen railway was originally proposed by Sun Yat-Sen in his plan to build the Chinese nation. In October 1949, at the inaugural Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in Beijing, Tan Kah Kee, a philanthropist and leader of the Singapore Chinese community, proposed that a railway be built in his native Fujian province. ==Rail connections==

• Yingtan: Shanghai–Kunming railway • Shaxian: Xiangtang–Putian railway • Nanping: Nanping–Fuzhou railway • Zhangping: Zhangping–Longchuan railway, Zhangping–Quanzhou–Xiaocuo railway • Xiamen: Fuzhou–Xiamen railway, Longyan–Xiamen railway ==See also==