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This period of railway development was not smooth sailing, and there was continued opposition to the railway on a number of fronts. In April 1888, on the construction site of Tianjin-Tongzhou Railway, a newly completed steel bridge across the Pei Ho river (today's Hai River 海河) in the heart of Tientsin, connecting with the foreign settlements, caused unrest with local boatmen fearful that the railway would harm their interests. Li ordered the destruction of the bridge by dynamite, causing the company a loss of £8000 and many months work.

Back at the western end of the railway the line had reached Fengtai and shortly afterwards a new terminus outside Peking in 1897 from where a Siemens built electric tramway was laid to the city's South Gate, or Yongdingmen, which opened for service in 1899.