China News Service, Guangzhou, July 1st (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) "Wind and Rain Guangjiujia National Road - The 111th Anniversary Exhibition of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway" opened at the Guangzhou Railway Museum on July 1st.

With more than 240 historical pictures, charts and historical documents, as well as more than 100 cultural relics, the exhibition comprehensively displays the history of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway for more than a century.

This is also the first thematic exhibition to comprehensively display the history of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway.

　　The reporter saw at the exhibition site that the cultural relics on display included the red five-star railway hat emblem, the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway train tickets of various periods, meal coupons, and timetables.

　　The Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway was created under the background of the powers competing for the right to build roads in China in the late Qing Dynasty.

In 1907, the Qing government and the Zhongying Bank Company entered into the "Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Loan Contract" in Beijing. The contract stipulated that the British loan 1.5 million pounds to the Qing government to build the railway between Guangzhou and Hong Kong and Kowloon, within the Chinese realm (Guangzhou Dasha. The railway (China section) from head to Shenzhen Luohu Bridge) is paid for by bonds issued by Zhongying Bank Co., Ltd. The repayment period is 30 years, and the property and future operating income of the road are used as guarantees and mortgages.

In August 1907, the construction of the two Huaying sections of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway started at the same time. In October 1911, the two Huaying sections were connected to the Luohu Bridge in Shenzhen, and the entire line was opened to traffic.

Photo by Cheng Jingwei, the red five-star railway hat emblem

　　The Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway has experienced 111 years of historical ups and downs and has experienced vicissitudes.

This railway used to be the transportation line of personnel and materials for the two Eastern Expeditions during the Great Revolution.

After the fall of Guangzhou, the anti-Japanese armed battles led by the Communist Party of China fought arduously on both sides of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Line.

　　In the early 1960s, in order to solve the supply of fresh materials in the Hong Kong market, the central government opened "three express freight trains for supplying fresh and live commodities from Hong Kong and Macau", and carried out "regular, scheduled and fixed-point" delivery of fresh materials to Hong Kong. Rain or shine.

Therefore, "Three Express Trains" is called "the lifeline of Hong Kong compatriots".

Canton-Kowloon Railway train ticket Cheng Jingwei photo

　　The organizer of the exhibition said that holding the exhibition on the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland is of special significance for retracing the history of the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway, witnessing the flesh-and-blood relationship between Hong Kong and the mainland, and telling the story of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

　　The exhibition is sponsored by Guangdong Provincial Museum (Guangzhou Luxun Memorial Hall), Guangzhou Railway Museum, and undertaken by Guangdong Mobile Museum.

In the future, the exhibition will continue to travel along the relevant museums along the Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway.

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