South Manchuria Railway was built as a part of Chinese Eastern Railway in 1898-1903 by Imperial Russia according to Russian-Chinese convention and Convention of Peking 1860.
The South Manchuria Railway Company (南満州鉄道株式会社/南満洲鉄道株式会社, Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha, or 満鉄 Mantetsu?)(Chinese: 南满铁路） was a company founded in the Empire of Japan in 1906, taken over after the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), and operated within China in the Japanese-controlled South Manchuria Railway Zone. The railway itself ran from Lüshun Port at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula to Harbin, where it connected to the Chinese Eastern Railway.
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