The railway was built with private funds. It was originally built from Suzhou to Hangzhou, but it was changed from Shanghai to Hangzhou because many lakes in Suzhou were easily flooded. The first railway in Jiaxing is the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, which started in June 1906, June 165438+ 10, and was completed in August 1909, and officially put into operation. The starting stations are Shanghai South Railway Station and Hangzhou Zhakou, with a total length of186.2km. There are 24 stations, Jiaxing being one of them. The railway was built with private funds. It was originally built from Suzhou to Hangzhou, but it was changed from Shanghai to Hangzhou because many lakes in Suzhou were easily flooded. The most colorful event in the history of Jiaxing section of Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway is that the delegates attending the first South Lake Conference in the Communist Party of China (CPC) got off the train from Shanghai along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway and came to Jiaxing Station. It can be said that Jiaxing Railway carries the hope of China revolution. 19 16 Sun Yat-sen also took the train along the Shanghai-Hangzhou Railway, passed by Jiaxing, and wrote four big characters: The tide came in.