Chapter 1110: Dashu's First Train Journey (This chapter has been revised; subscribers will not be charged again)
Once the railway from Tohai Commandery to the capital opened, Luo Chong immediately began thinking about visiting the capital.
Although the capital had been under construction on his orders for nearly two years, and the future imperial palace was there as well, Luo Chong had never gone to see it. Now that the railway had finally opened, he would be letting himself down if he did not take a look.
The single-track railway from Tohai Commandery to the capital was 367 kilometers long. Taking the Han Tribe's current main locomotive, the Endeavor, as an example, its operating speed was twenty-five kilometers per hour. Even running at full speed without stopping once along the entire route, it would take at least fifteen hours. It was currently the Han Tribe's longest one-way railway.
Because the Endeavor was small, with a small boiler as well, it consumed only two hundred kilograms of coal per hundred kilometers. The Coal and Water Tender at the front could carry at least one ton of coal at a time.
In other words, its endurance allowed it to travel five hundred kilometers on its own without stopping midway to take on water or coal. Therefore, there was no need to establish stations along the railway from Tohai Commandery to the capital. It only needed to replenish its coal and water at the terminal stations on either end.
However, to guard against the unexpected, the railway's design team had still placed a station midway, at the settlement of the Youqiao Clan's immigrants.
The Youqiao Clan's immigrants had been brought over last summer by the Golden Crow Guards escorting craftsmen under You Zhi's command. They were merely one branch of the Youqiao Clan's