Brief introduction of railway corps museum

1on September 9, 953, the central military commission decided to set up the leading organ of the railway corps. Since then, the Railway Corps has been officially listed as an arm of the People's Liberation Army.

The predecessor of the Railway Corps was the Northeast/KLOC-0, an armed road guard formed in August, 1945, and later it was changed to the Northeast Democratic Coalition Road Guard. 1on March 5, 954, the railway corps headquarters was formally established in Beijing, with a total strength of more than 400,000 at most. After the establishment of the Railway Corps, in the War of Liberation, the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea and the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Vietnam, it made great contributions in rushing to repair and build railways and ensuring smooth steel transportation.

In the national railway construction, the railway corps successively built chengdu-kunming railway, Guikun Railway, Xiangpu Railway, Northeast Forest Region Railway, Xinjiang Southern Xinjiang Railway, Qinghai-Tibet Railway, Beijing Subway Project and other large railways, and made great contributions. 1982 65438+On February 6th, the central government decided to merge the railway corps into the Ministry of Railways. 1984 65438+ 10/month 1, the railway soldiers collectively changed jobs and merged into the Ministry of Railways. The headquarters of the Railway Corps was changed to the Engineering Headquarters of the Ministry of Railways, and the divisions of the Railway Corps were renamed the Engineering Bureau of the Ministry of Railways. Since then, the railway soldiers have disappeared from the PLA sequence, but their achievements will remain in the history of the PLA forever.