The way it was One Too Far Day in the Life Knee Deep Travel in Style Citizens Performing Arts Doting Dad Burning Ambitions High Command The Poor The Workers The Soldiers This Week Homepage Back to Main				he 700-km line necessitated the construction of 150 tunnels and 3,422 bridges and was described at the time as the most ambitious engineering feat of French colonialism in Asia. When it opened in 1911 - long after François' departure - it provided land-locked Kunming with its first access to the outside world.
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