Shanghai Railway Museum 1 – The Building

A lot of railways for a while on this site – apologies to anyone who’s anti-railway. The original Shanghai railway stations are all gone now but images of them live on in the Shanghai Railway Museum which is in the right sort of area though for railways in Shanghai at 200 Tianmu Road East (Boundary Road – as it was the boundary between the northern extent of the Settlement and Chinese Shanghai and the original location of the Shanghai-Nanning Railway Station). The station was variously known as the Shanghai-Nanning station and, after 1916, the Shanghai North Railway Station. It got destroyed in 1932 by the Japanese and then again in 1937. After 1950 it was known simply as Shanghai Railway Station and then relocated to its current location in new premises, but close by, in 1987. By a matter of months, I just missed taking a train from the old station!!

the old Shanghai Railway Station in 1907

the recreated building that now houses the Shanghai Railway Museum