The Monument to the Martyrs in the Railway Protection Movement in the Autumn of 1911

The Monument to the Martyrs in the Railway Protection Movement in the Autumn of 1911 is located in the northwest of People’s Park in the city center of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. It was built in 1913 and is a memorial building constructed by the Sichuan Railway General Company at that time to commemorate the martyrs who sacrificed in the Sichuan Railway Protection Movement in 1911. The Sichuan Railway Protection Movement was one of the prominent historical events during the 1911 Revolution. It created conditions and provided opportunities for the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising.
The monument is 31.85 meters high and is of brick and stone structure. It consists of four parts: the monument platform, the monument base, the monument body, and the monument head. The monument platform is built in imitation of a railway platform and is cylindrical in shape. The monument base and the monument body are square pyramids. Among them, the four sides of the monument base are relief patterns of railway tracks, locomotives, signal lights, switches, and automatic couplers respectively.


The four sides of the monument body are inlaid with long bluestones, and the words “The Monument to the Martyrs in the Railway Protection Movement in the Autumn of 1911” are engraved on all four sides. They were written in four fonts of regular script, cursive script, running script, and official script by the then Sichuan calligraphers Zhang Kuijie (east), Yan Kai (west), Wu Zhiying (south), and Zhao Xi (north) respectively.


Each character is about 1 square meter in size.



The opening hours are subject to the opening conditions on the day.


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