The Shanghai-Nanking Railway Station in Shanghai combined Chinese and Western architecture in its design.
The first train appeared in China in the late 1870's. In the 1890's the true development of a rail network began. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway was one of the most important routes. The railway station in Shanghai that served this route had decidedly Gothic architectural influences. The trains that traveled this route as well as others in China were fueled by coal until the 1980s when they were supplanted by electric trains.