 In May 1899, the Qing government agreed to the financing of the railway construction along with a series of bank loans.In 1908, the plan for the railway line was changed to Tianjin to Nanjing, in the Pukou District which is on the north side of the Yangtze River.Construction of the railway began in 1908 and the Tientsin–Pukow railway was completed in 1912.