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[cirr]

Public comment sought on Beijing-Xiongan rail

2017-07-24 08:40

China Daily Editor: Wang Fan

Planners release environmental impact assessment for 100.3-kilometer corridor

An environmental impact assessment for a new high-speed railway linking Beijing and Xiongan New Area was released on Saturday. It was the first public acknowledgment that a new line will be built.

China Railway Design Corp announced the assessment on its website and is seeking public comment.

According to the notice, the Beijing-Xiongan railway will start at Liying in Beijing's Daxing district, pass through Langfang and terminate at Xiongan East Railway Station－a total length of 100.3 kilometers.

The new line will also pass through the capital's new airport, which will be about 36 km from Liying and about 64 km from Xiongan New Area. The airport is expected to open in 2019.

The existence of a railway plan was reported in April by Tianjin News. According to the report, a planning map showed two railway stations in the new area－Xiongan Railway Station and Xiongan East Railway Station. The environmental assessment covers the latter.

According to an earlier report, the Tianjin-Xiongan railway route will connect the area with Tianjin's new railway station, which is also in the planning stages.

An older rail line is already in operation. Passengers must transfer in Baoding or Tianjin to get to the Xiongan area on high-speed rail.

Since July 7, four daily high-speed railway services have been started. The journey takes one hour and 50 minutes.

The new Beijing-Xiongan line follows a different route.

Xiongan New Area is located in the center of a triangular area defined by Beijing, Tianjin and Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei province.

Located about 100 km southwest of downtown Beijing, the new area will mostly cover Xiongxian, Rongcheng and Anxin counties in Hebei.

It will eventually encompass 2,000 square kilometers, with a population of up to 2.5 million people.

Under the area's development plan, a major transportation network should be in place in Xiongan by 2020. The area will be well connected to Beijing, Tianjin and other cities in Hebei by 2022, when the Winter Olympic Games will be held.

Xiongan New Area is intended to house the bulk of Beijing's noncapital functions, including some administrative and public institutions, company headquarters, financial institutions, higher education institutions, and science and technology units.

http://www.ecns.cn/business/2017/07-24/266408.shtml

 

[AndrewJin]

The coming death of another golden flight route.....
Beijing-Qingdao
New 350km/h HSR set to open in 2018 with the beginning of track laying in July 2017...
714km within 3 hours
December 2015- Late 2018

@cirr @JSCh @TaiShang @ahojunk

 

[AndrewJin]

18.07.2107 G9(Beijing-Shanghai) and G10(Shanghai-Beijing)

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4h10m. Now if only they can do without making stop at Xuzhou East for 4 mins......

@AndrewJin

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More tests

 

[cirr]

Capacity expansion of Qinghai-Tibet railway under way

http://www.peoplerail.com/rail/show-456-341208-1.html

 

[cirr]

Railway linking Changchun, Baicheng and Ulanhot in test operation

2017-07-28 09:20

Xinhua Editor:Li Yan



An inter-city bullet train is seen on the railway linking Changchun, Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on July 13, 2017. The 412-km-long railway is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Huo Chunguang)


An inter-city bullet train is seen on the railway linking Changchun, Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on June 8, 2017. The 412-km-long railway is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Huo Chunguang)


An inter-city bullet train is seen in Changchun Station in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, July 26, 2017. The 412-km-long railway linking Changchun, Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


An inter-city bullet train is seen on the railway linking Changchun and Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on July 12, 2017. The 412-km-long railway is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Huo Chunguang)


Crew members of the inter-city bullet train pose for a photo in Ulanhot station in Ulanhot of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regionon July 26, 2017. The 412-km-long railway linking Changchun, Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Xu Chang)


An inter-city bullet train is seen on the railway linking Changchun, Baicheng, both in northeast China's Jilin Province, and Ulanhot in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, on July 13, 2017. The 412-km-long railway is now in a test operation. (Xinhua/Huo Chunguang)

 

[AndrewJin]

CRAZY HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY FLYOVER

Tunli High-speed Railway Bridges
Nanning City, Guangxi, Southwest China

The location of these bridges are just outside Nanning East HSR Station
connecting numerous high-speed railways and adjacent depot and maintenance base

Currently three high-speed railways and two intercity high-speed railways intersect in Nanning

Nanning East Railway Station

Nanning City
emerging high-speed railway hub in Southwest China

@terranMarine @JSCh @TaiShang @cirr @Götterdämmerung @Godman et al

 

[AndrewJin]

Incredible, all that connectivity and hi-speed trains. Comfy travel experience, no where to be found in cow land

Let us stick to the topic, shall we?

Across the industrial Lanzhou City
Lanzhou-Airport intercity high-speed railway, Lanzhou, Northwest China

 

[JSCh]

Is there any world record left China has yet to break? Please write it down on your next National Day wish list.

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Deepest rail station coming to Badaling
China Daily, September 29, 2016
The Badaling section of the Great Wall will soon offer another unique attraction－the world's deepest and largest high-speed railway station.

A worker explains a diagram of the Badaling Station of the Jingzhang High-Speed Railway on Wednesday.[Photo / China Daily]

It will be located along the 174-kilometer Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, which is still under construction.

"The Badaling station will be located 102 meters below the surface, with an underground construction area of 36,000 square meters, equal to five standard soccer fields, making it the deepest and largest high-speed railway station in the world," Chen Bin, director in charge of construction for China Railway No 5 Engineering Group, said on Wednesday.

The underground station will have three floors, separate levels for arriving and departing passengers－similar to airports－and two escalators with vertical heights of 62 meters, the highest in the country, he added.

Expected to be finished by the end of 2019, the railway is considered a vital link between the three venue clusters for the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will be held in Beijing and in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province.

The railway will have 10 stations and two branch lines connecting Yanqing and Chongli, aiming to smooth the residential traffic and fuel local economic growth, said He Yi, head of the major project construction department of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Development.

The railway, with a designed maximum speed of 350 kilometers per hour, will shorten the commute time between the Beijing North Station and the Olympics venues in Chongli of Zhangjiakou from the current three-plus hours to around 50 minutes, He said.

It is estimated that the 2022 Winter Olympics and the high-speed railway will boost the economy of Zhangjiakou by 10 percent annually, according to the commission.

"The railway will serve the capital as well, such as by easing traffic congestion in the northern part, because that section of rail will go underground," He said.

Of the 10 stations, the Badaling Station is considered the most challenging because of the mountainous landscape, vulnerable environment and limited construction period, which requires the project to be finished within 46 months.

"It will run through mountains where the Great Wall is winding, so we adopted some of the world's advanced explosion technologies to guarantee it would not affect the Great Wall," said Luo Duhao, chief engineer of the railway group for the Badaling section.

"We have to keep the high quality of the construction as a priority, so we can build another project to match the old railway in the region and make us proud," he said.

Qinglongqiao station, near the Badaling Great Wall, has been a station on the country's first self-designed and constructed railway since 1904, and still serves passengers.

China is building deepest high-speed railway station under Great Wall
By Guo Kai | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-07-31 13:58

Workers are digging a tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line's branch linking Chongli county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, on June 30, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese workers are building the world's deepest and Asia's largest underground high-speed railway station beneath the Great Wall at the Badaling section in Beijing.
The station under construction will be 3-story high and have a 36,000 square meters floor area, including platform, entrance and exit. The railway tracks will be 102 meters underground.

The station is an important part of a 12.01 kilometers long tunnel section of the 174-kilometer Beijing–Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line. The tunnel is the longest one of the railway line.

"Passengers will enter and exit the station about 100 meters underground, and it will be very safe," said Dai Longzhen, a senior manager of the construction company China Railway No 5 Engineering Group Co Ltd.

An escalator would raise passengers 62 meters at vertical height, and inclined elevators will also be used in the station for the first time.

To secure the safety of passengers, the station will change the inclined shafts that are used to build the station as permanent rescue channels.

The underground burrowing work is the country's most complicated, because the station has to contain 78 caverns and lots of intersections, said Chen Bin, a commander-in-chief of the project.

Starting from the construction of the tunnel on April 15, 2016, workers have known how tough the work will be, however the hardness of the rocks still exceeded their expectations, said Jiang Si, a manager of the company.

According to its initial plan, workers could excavate the tunnel 6 to 8 meters a day, but the tough rock meant workers could dig only about 2 meters a day.

Large–size shield tunneling machines could not be used, and workers could only use the blasting method in the construction, Dai said.

"The No 1 shaft has a 80-degree turn, and the No 2 shaft has a 135-degree turn, which prohibits the machines more than 100 meters long from working there," Dai said.

Workers have to develop new blasting technology to explore the tunnel carefully, because just above it are the Great Wall and the railway line linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou first independently designed and built by Chinese 100 years ago.

Workers have carried out more than 4,500 explosions. They use the electronic detonators to control the vibrations in batches of small explosions to reduce the impacts on the inside of hills and the Great Wall. At the Qinglongqiao station of old Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway line, worker used expansive agents to dig the tunnel, only 4 meters beneath.

Another problem in the tunneling is the underground water, and every day, workers have to pump at least 19,000 cubic meters of water, which equals about 10 swimming pools.

The Bejing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is expected to get through by the end of 2019, allowing passengers to travel between the two cities in one hour. It is an important project for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

 

[AndrewJin]

Testing back to 350km/h on Shanghai-Beijing HSR
Live using 4G

China is building deepest high-speed railway station under Great Wall
By Guo Kai | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-07-31 13:58

Workers are digging a tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line's branch linking Chongli county, Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, on June 30, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua]

Chinese workers are building the world's deepest and Asia's largest underground high-speed railway station beneath the Great Wall at the Badaling section in Beijing.
The station under construction will be 3-story high and have a 36,000 square meters floor area, including platform, entrance and exit. The railway tracks will be 102 meters underground.

The station is an important part of a 12.01 kilometers long tunnel section of the 174-kilometer Beijing–Zhangjiakou high-speed railway line. The tunnel is the longest one of the railway line.

"Passengers will enter and exit the station about 100 meters underground, and it will be very safe," said Dai Longzhen, a senior manager of the construction company China Railway No 5 Engineering Group Co Ltd.

An escalator would raise passengers 62 meters at vertical height, and inclined elevators will also be used in the station for the first time.

To secure the safety of passengers, the station will change the inclined shafts that are used to build the station as permanent rescue channels.

The underground burrowing work is the country's most complicated, because the station has to contain 78 caverns and lots of intersections, said Chen Bin, a commander-in-chief of the project.

Starting from the construction of the tunnel on April 15, 2016, workers have known how tough the work will be, however the hardness of the rocks still exceeded their expectations, said Jiang Si, a manager of the company.

According to its initial plan, workers could excavate the tunnel 6 to 8 meters a day, but the tough rock meant workers could dig only about 2 meters a day.

Large–size shield tunneling machines could not be used, and workers could only use the blasting method in the construction, Dai said.

"The No 1 shaft has a 80-degree turn, and the No 2 shaft has a 135-degree turn, which prohibits the machines more than 100 meters long from working there," Dai said.

Workers have to develop new blasting technology to explore the tunnel carefully, because just above it are the Great Wall and the railway line linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou first independently designed and built by Chinese 100 years ago.

Workers have carried out more than 4,500 explosions. They use the electronic detonators to control the vibrations in batches of small explosions to reduce the impacts on the inside of hills and the Great Wall. At the Qinglongqiao station of old Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway line, worker used expansive agents to dig the tunnel, only 4 meters beneath.

Another problem in the tunneling is the underground water, and every day, workers have to pump at least 19,000 cubic meters of water, which equals about 10 swimming pools.

The Bejing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is expected to get through by the end of 2019, allowing passengers to travel between the two cities in one hour. It is an important project for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Under these old railways and great walls!

 

[JSCh]

China's high-speed trains becoming the preferred choice for travelers
By Wang Jia
2017-08-01 13:28 GMT+8

BY CGTN's Yang Wentao and Zhu Qinliang

Not only does China have more people than any other country on the earth, it also has the largest migrant population.

The annual Spring Festival travel rush is the greatest regular migration in human history. In little over a month, more than 3 billion trips are made, the equivalent of moving nearly half the global population. To pull off this feat with greater efficiency, China needed a new approach.

CRH Station. /CGTN Photo​

China's plan is to build a super high-speed rail network of speeds of over 300 kilometers an hour to connect cities in a vast economic circle. The Beijing to Shanghai high-speed railway line is a key part of this plan.

The express railway, connecting the Chinese capital and the country's largest city, will pass through 14 cities of over a million people each, a quarter of the country's population. The link also connects the Bohai Economic Rim and the Yangtze River Delta Economic Zone.

CRH Train in service. /CGTN Photo​

Every day, more than 350 CRH380 high-speed trains run between Beijing and Shanghai. Traveling at a velocity of over 300 kilometers an hour, they complete the 1,318-kilometer journey in less than five hours.

Trains depart every five minutes on the high-speed railway. That's more than on most urban bus routes. In its first five years of operation, the railway handled 490 million passengers. As a result, the economies of the areas along the line have become more integrated and more vibrant.

In just 12 years, China's high-speed rail network has become the world's most extensive one, with a total length of 20,000 kilometers. It accounts for 60 percent of the global total.

More importantly, China has brought high-speed rail travel to the masses, so it is rapidly becoming the preferred choice for travelers.

 

[JSCh]

China's Inner Mongolia runs first high-speed train
By Zhu Mei
2017-08-03 12:33 GMT+8

The first high speed train in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region set off from Hohhot east station on Thursday, heading east to Ulanqab in a speed of 250 km/h.

Travel time between the two cities will be shortened from over an hour to 40 minutes.

The 126 kilometers route is part of Zhangjiakou-Hohhot railway, which will play a crucial role in the Belt and Road Initiative.

The test run was successfully conducted on Wednesday.

 

[AndrewJin]

China's Inner Mongolia runs first high-speed train
By Zhu Mei
2017-08-03 12:33 GMT+8

The first high speed train in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region set off from Hohhot east station on Thursday, heading east to Ulanqab in a speed of 250 km/h.

Travel time between the two cities will be shortened from over an hour to 40 minutes.

The 126 kilometers route is part of Zhangjiakou-Hohhot railway, which will play a crucial role in the Belt and Road Initiative.

The test run was successfully conducted on Wednesday.

Let's wait for the entire Hohhot-Zhangjiakou-Beijing HSR!

 

[AndrewJin]

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Let's wait for the entire Hohhot-Zhangjiakou-Beijing HSR!

More photos!
Though as the first HSR in Inner Mongolia, it will not be integrated into the national HSR network until the entire Hohhot-Zhangjiakou-Beijing HSR opens before 2022 Winter Olympics.

Hohhot

Inner Mongolia

 

[JSCh]

Bullet train introduced to visitors at Nanning east railway station
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-05 19:13:41|Editor: An

A stewardess introduces a bullet train to visitors at Nanning east railway station in Nanning, capital of south China's Guagnxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Lu Bo'an)

 

[AndrewJin]

Bullet train introduced to visitors at Nanning east railway station
Source: Xinhua| 2017-08-05 19:13:41|Editor: An

A stewardess introduces a bullet train to visitors at Nanning east railway station in Nanning, capital of south China's Guagnxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 5, 2017. (Xinhua/Lu Bo'an)

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I am a little worried about this new high-speed-railway generation who has no idea what is discomfort and low speed...
Any long-distance domestic travel for them = bullet trains or flights