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Will trial Hainan Island-Guangdong HSR link first then use that know-how for Taiwan Province!

Wow, then Hainan development would explode (already a great, developed province).

Such a link with Mainland China would make life so easier and translate into greater economic and social activity on both sides.

For such a project to realize, there would not be even necessary to change the status quo, just change the present irrational administration in Taiwan with a better one, and rail connectivity would not be a problem.
 
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18 September, first day after the typhoon
Guiyang-Guangzhou HSR

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Does this figure include the various metro lines in the cities?
Excluded.

Different authority, railway by the state, metro run by respective city governments
 
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China tests longest high-speed railway in cold northeastern region
New China TV
Published on Sep 16, 2018

China is expected to open its longest high-speed railway in a northeastern area neighboring Siberia. The 343-kilometer line links Harbin with Jiamusi, both in Heilongjiang Province. It has been undergoing tests for four months. It is designed for both passenger and freight transportation with a speed of 200 km per hour. It will shorten the travel time between Harbin and Jiamusi by train to 110 minutes from about 360 minutes.
Express railway line begins operation in NE China
Source: Xinhua| 2018-09-30 20:48:32|Editor: ZX


HARBIN, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- An express railway line started operation on Sunday in northeast China, linking the cities of Harbin and Jiamusi in Heilongjiang Province.

The 344-km line, built in a region where the temperature can be as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius in winter, is designed to allow trains to run at 200 km per hour, cutting the travel time to 123 minutes from about 344 minutes, said the China Railway Harbin Group.

Construction of the railway line started in July 2014 as one of the key projects included in China's mid-and-long term railway network scheme. Trials of the railway line were launched in May this year.

China's railway network is expected to hit 175,000 km in length by 2025, compared with 127,000 km of operating tracks by the end of last year.

 
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New record! China puts into use homemade bridge-building machine
New China TV
Published on Oct 1, 2018

A massive bridge-building machine, designed and built by China, has been put into use. It can place a 1,000-tonne beam between two support pillars 40 meters apart, breaking the world record.
 
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Chinese maglev train capable of travelling at 600km/h on track for 2020 test run as design completed | South China Morning Post
News confirmed by Liang Jianying of state-owned CRRC Qingdao Sifang, the first and only female chief engineer in China’s high-speed train manufacturing industry

PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 October, 2018, 7:00am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 October, 2018, 10:59am

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Su Xinqi
sue.su@scmp.com

The design for the prototype of China’s first maglev train with a top speed of 600km/h (373mph) has been completed, according to the chief engineer of the country’s leading high-speed train manufacturer.

Liang Jianying from state-owned CRRC Qingdao Sifang said: “We have completed the design for the prototype of the maglev train and started on production of parts.”

Liang was in Hong Kong and speaking on the sidelines of the InnoTech Expo organised by Our Hong Kong Foundation – a think tank set up by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa – on Friday.

Although the train is designed to hit a top speed of 600km/h, she said the company was aiming for a “maximum operating speed” of 550km/h.

The train and a comprehensive maglev transport system around it are expected to fill the service gap between the high-speed rail network and aviation. High-speed trains usually operate at speeds of between 200km/h and 400km/h.

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Maglev technology moves trains on magnetic fields. Because there is no contact with the tracks and the trains ‘float’, they can travel at higher speeds without friction.

China starts trial run of first home-designed and built maglev rail line
The maglev system was a key project under China’s 13th five-year economic and social development plan rolled out in 2016. As a subsidiary of China’s largest train maker CRRC, Qingdao Sifang has been tasked to complete the first model and a 5km test rail by 2020.

The company is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-speed trains in China, including being behind the Vibrant Express and Fuxing Express running on the recently launched Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, which connects Hong Kong to the mainland.

Liang said the escalating US-China trade war would not harm the development of China’s high-speed train industry.

“We indeed conduct global procurement of parts for our trains but only a very small portion is bought from the United States,” said Liang, who has been overseeing major high-speed train designs in Qingdao Sifang since 2006.

“Moreover, we can find substitutes on the mainland,” she added.

Liang also emphasised China has mastered many critical technologies in designing high-speed trains since the country launched its industry with models and parts imported from Japan in 2004.

“Our strategy has been one with three steps: import advance technologies from foreign countries, digest and absorb, and eventually develop our own innovations,” Liang said.


Liang and her team built model CRH380A, which has a top speed of 380km/h and has been widely used in China’s high-speed rail network. It was developed after two rounds of intellectual property rights examination in the US in 2010 and 2015.

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“More than 930 items of intellectual property were confirmed without any infringement,” Liang said. “This marks our comprehensive grasp of the technologies.”

By the end of 2017, the high-speed rail network on the mainland spanned 25,000km – the longest in the world.

Liang, 46, is the first and only female chief engineer in China’s high-speed train manufacturing industry.

“For engineers, to pursue higher speed on the basis of safety is an eternal goal,” Liang said.

She said Qingdao Sifang had sent engineers to the Shek Kong Depot of Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation to help monitor the high-speed train operation but did not disclose how long they would stay.

“For all the trains we make, we will provide supporting services throughout their life cycle, which is 25 years,” Liang said.
 
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Opening ceremony of Mainland-HK high speed rail held
China Daily Asia
Published on Sep 21, 2018

Government leaders from Hong Kong and Guangdong province officiated at the opening ceremony for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), held at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Station Saturday morning.
High-speed rail sees 880,000 passenger trips between mainland, Hong Kong in two weeks
新华社| 2018-10-07 23:17:34|Editor: Liangyu


HONG KONG, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- The newly-launched high-speed rail between the mainland and Hong Kong has recorded about 880,000 passenger trips since put into use two weeks ago, the rail service operator MTR Corporation said on Sunday.

Since the commencement of its service on Sept. 23, the Hong Kong Section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link has witnessed about 880,000 passenger trips to and from Hong Kong West Kowloon Station and train service operations have been smooth, MTR said in a press release on Sunday night.

During the National Day and related holiday period alone, namely from Sept. 28 to Oct. 7, the high-speed rail served a total of around 650,000 passenger journeys between Hong Kong and different cities in the Chinese mainland.

The cumulative number of tickets sold, including those sold in the pre-sale period, has exceeded 1 million.

"The high-speed rail provides comfortable and convenient cross-boundary train services for passengers travelling between Hong Kong and mainland cities," MTR CEO Lincoln Leong said, adding that "train services have been generally smooth since service commencement."

The cross-boundary high-speed rail connects Hong Kong with 44 stations in the Chinese mainland without interchange, including six short-haul stations and 38 long-haul stations.

The National Day holiday came shortly after the opening of the high-speed rail and was a great challenge to the new railway, MTR Operations Director Adi Lau said, adding that MTR set up a special task force operating every day during the early days of operations at Hong Kong West Kowloon Station to respond immediately to different issues, including optimizing passenger flow management and queuing arrangements.

"As we are still in the early days of operations, there may still be teething issues which may cause some inconvenience to passengers. We will continue to listen to passengers' views and seek continuous improvements. Our aim is to provide passengers with high quality high-speed rail service," said Lau.
 
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Fuxing bullet trains more intelligent in dealing with overload
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This file photo shows a Fuxing bullet train running between Beijing and Tianjin. (Photo/VCG)

(ECNS) - Concern for a better traveling experience was the key reason behind a bullet train’s automatic warning during the National Day holiday, Science and Technology Daily reported.

High-speed train G108 urged passengers with standing room tickets to get off at Changzhou North Railway Station on Oct. 1, sparking online questions about the train’s carrying capacity.

Experts from China Railway Corp said both the Fuxing (Rejuvenation) bullet train and earlier version Hexie (Harmony) can accommodate a certain range of overload, but the Fuxing is armed with more advanced technologies to automatically sound alarms when the number of passengers reaches a certain threshold.

The designer of the CR400AF, a type of Fuxing train, at Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Qingdao Sifang said the train’s brake control system can adjust to the varying weight to meet safety requirements.

In theory, Fuxing trains can operate normally with 20 percent more passengers, but above that range, passengers will find the journey less comfortable, such as in air-conditioning and water supply conditions.
 
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Fuxing bullet trains more intelligent in dealing with overload
ECNS App Download

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This file photo shows a Fuxing bullet train running between Beijing and Tianjin. (Photo/VCG)

(ECNS) - Concern for a better traveling experience was the key reason behind a bullet train’s automatic warning during the National Day holiday, Science and Technology Daily reported.

High-speed train G108 urged passengers with standing room tickets to get off at Changzhou North Railway Station on Oct. 1, sparking online questions about the train’s carrying capacity.

Experts from China Railway Corp said both the Fuxing (Rejuvenation) bullet train and earlier version Hexie (Harmony) can accommodate a certain range of overload, but the Fuxing is armed with more advanced technologies to automatically sound alarms when the number of passengers reaches a certain threshold.

The designer of the CR400AF, a type of Fuxing train, at Chinese rolling stock manufacturer CRRC Qingdao Sifang said the train’s brake control system can adjust to the varying weight to meet safety requirements.

In theory, Fuxing trains can operate normally with 20 percent more passengers, but above that range, passengers will find the journey less comfortable, such as in air-conditioning and water supply conditions.
Too many passengers, some trains saw 50+% more standing passengers.
Many passengers bought short-distance tickets within the 20% allowance, then prolonged the journey.
This should be banned and fined.
The extended distance should be charged 100% more.
This is not some slow-speed suburban trains like 200km/h CRH6 which is designed for more standing room.
 
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China's first firefighting train debuts in Sichuan
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-10-09 17:15
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A train designed for firefighting made its first appearance in a drill in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province recently, the country's railway operator China Railway Corp's official WeChat account, chineserailways, reported.

The train, formally called a rail transit emergency comprehensive support vehicle, can run at a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour to reach the site of a fire using railway lines.

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Besides the locomotive section, the main body was adapted from a container flat wagon, installed with fire engine equipment, two large water tanks with a total capacity of 48 cubic meters, a lighting system and other tools.

The train uses a mixture of water and fire extinguishing agent to put out a fire and its equipment can reach as far away as 485 meters.

It can also provide water to remote areas, maintenance support, and clean bridges and tunnels.

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A train designed for firefighting made its first appearance in a drill in Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province. [Photo/chineserailwas]

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The main body of firefighting train is adapted from a container flat wagon. [Photo/chineserailways]
 
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