A Study on the Early Chinese Steel Rails Heritage of Hanyehping Company, China

Hanyehping Company was the first and only manufacturer of steel rails prior to 1926 in China. There are 148 sections of old steel rails were collected in the National Railway Museum of China, including 12 sections of early steel rails which made by Hanyehping. Through carrying out a systematical test and analysis of material performance of the Hanyang rails of NRMC and some imported rails of the same time, the producing process of Hanyang rails in the early modern China was restored and some historical issues of the steel making technology of Hanyehping Company in the early of 20th Century were discussed.