South Manchuria Railway 南满洲铁道
（重定向自South Manchurian Railway）
![Headquarters of South Manchuria Railway, Dalian](/Images/godic/202502/12/Mantetsu_Honsha2421.jpg")
![Hsinking (Changchun) Railway Station](/Images/godic/202502/12/Manchukuo_Hsinking_station2421.jpg")
![Locomotive for Asia Express](/Images/godic/202502/12/South_Manchuria_Pashina_9732421.jpg")
![Dining car of South Manchuria Railway](/Images/godic/202502/12/Dining-Car_of_SMR2421.JPG")
South Manchuria Railway was built as a part of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1898-1903 by Imperial Russia according to the Russian-Chinese convention and the 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.