China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[JSCh]

China to put 10 new railways into service by end-2018
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-07 13:15:51|Editor: Lu Hui


BEIJING, Dec.7 (Xinhua) -- Ten new railways with an aggregate operating mileage of 2,500 km will be put into service by the end of this year to enhance the capability of China's high-speed rails, sources from the China Railway said.

About 553 new high-speed train services will be introduced simultaneously, which is expected to elevate China's high-speed rail transport capacity by 9 percent, according to the sources.

The change will also make high-speed railway services available for the first time in a dozen cities, including Fuxin and Chaoyang in Liaoning Province, Chengde in Hebei, Tongliao in Inner Mongolia, Mudanjiang in Heilongjiang, Rizhao in Shandong, Lianyungang and Yancheng in Jiangsu, Yaan in Sichuan and Lijiang in Yunan.

The travel times between some cities are also expected to be shortened. For instance, it will take three hours less for passengers to travel from Harbin to Mudanjiang, and nearly seven hours less from Mudanjiang to Beijing.

A new train diagram will be put into use on January 5, 2019.

 

[AndrewJin]

The first weekend of Xi'an-Chengdu HSR

Xi'an North Railway Station
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Hanzhong station
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Arrive in Chengdu
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@Han Patriot @Malik Usman @DESERT FIGHTER @newb3e @powastick @Dungeness @TaiShang et al


The paper is about how signal works between cars, boring!

One-year anniversary of Xi'an-Chengdu High-speed Railway

@TaiShang @powastick @anant_s @long_ @Realtalk108 @hiseen et al

 

[AndrewJin]

Shantou Station upgraded!
Shantou City, Guangdong Province

CRRC Sifang-Bombardier version of CR300 unveiled!

 

[JSCh]

China builds railway arch bridge with world's longest span
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-10 19:56:52|Editor: Liangyu

Aerial photo taken on Dec. 9, 2018 shows the railway arch bridge across the Nujiang River in southwest China's Yunnan Province. With a grand arch bridge erected on Monday morning, Chinese constructors have built the longest-spanning railway arch bridge with a single span of 490 meters. The bridge is a key project of the 220-km-long Dali-Ruili railway which is a key section of the China-Myanmar international railway corridor linking Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, with Yangon of Myanmar. (Xinhua)

BEIJING, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- With a grand arch bridge erected on Monday morning across the Nujiang River in southwestern China's Yunnan Province, Chinese constructors have built the world's longest-spanning railway arch bridge.

The bridge measures 1,024 meters long and nearly 25 meters wide. With a single span of 490 meters, it can accommodate the parking of four trains at the same time, said Yu Changbin, a project manager with China Railway Construction Corporation.

"As the bridge is situated in the gorge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and affected by a high-intensity seismic belt, it was much more demanding in both breadth and bearing capacity than ordinary railway bridges," Yu said. "There is no precedent for building such a huge bridge station."

To complete the bridge, constructors had to assemble 800,000 bolts, and 922 steel poles of various models weighing 100 tonnes each in the air -- about 230 meters above the Nujiang River.

"The technical difficulty and risks are both very rare," Yu said.

The bridge is a key project of the 220-km-long Dali-Ruili railway which is a key section of the China-Myanmar international railway corridor linking Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan, with Yangon, the capital of Myanmar.

Upon completion of the Dali-Ruili railway, the transport time between the two cities will be cut from six hours to two.

 

[JSCh]

China's new high-speed railway laid with self-developed ballastless tracks
New China TV
Published on Dec 11, 2018

Railway tracks with ID! 698km-long Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway has completed track-laying using China's self-developed ballastless track. By scanning the ID card, one can read information including model number, serial number of track laying, mileage and curve radius

 

[JSCh]

High-speed railway in mountainous SE China begins trial operation
New China TV
Published on Dec 12, 2018

What an engineering feat! Running through 99 bridges and 82 tunnels, a new high-speed railway begins trial operation in southeast China's Fujian after five-year construction.

 

[JSCh]

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.

New tunnel of Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed line cut through
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2018-12-14 11:24

Workers build the New Badaling tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line in Beijing on Dec 13. [Photo/Xinhua]

The longest tunnel for the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway was dug through on Thursday, marking a major breakthrough in the 174-kilometer rail line which is planned to fully open to traffic in 2019 to support the commute for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games.

Starting from construction in April 2016, the 12-kilometer-long New Badaling tunnel, a pivotal part of the line, is also the country's most complicated underground burrowing project. Besides the drilling in the hard rock, the station beneath the Great Wall has 78 caverns and lots of intersections which create many difficulties in excavation. New techniques are being used to explore the tunnel carefully and avoid any damage to the Great Wall and the railway line designed and built 100 years ago.

The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway is expected to be completed by the end of 2019, with travel time between Beijing and Zhangjiangkou reduced from three hours to just one hour.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

New Badaling tunnel of Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line cut through
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-14 07:18:57|Editor: Yang Yi

Workers build the New Badaling tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2018. Workers have achieved a major breakthrough in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line project, after they dug through the New Badaling tunnel, a pivotal part along the line, on Thursday. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

Workers celebrate as they cut through the New Badaling tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2018. Workers have achieved a major breakthrough in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line project, after they dug through the New Badaling tunnel, a pivotal part along the line, on Thursday. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

Workers celebrate as they cut through the New Badaling tunnel of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 13, 2018. Workers have achieved a major breakthrough in the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail line project, after they dug through the New Badaling tunnel, a pivotal part along the line, on Thursday. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

 

[JSCh]

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[AndrewJin]

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I lose counts on the number of new railways to open at the end of this month...
The biggest news for me as a Yunnan Province lover, is the bullet trains to Lijiang!

 

[艹艹艹]

On December 26, in shandong province will be opened two high-speed rail lines at the same time

济(南)--青(岛)
ji nan--qingdao

青(岛)--盐(城)
qingdao--yancheng

我大山东也不甘落后啊

https://v.qq.com/x/page/b081031ocsu.html

https://www.iqiyi.com/v_19rqs3vvy0.html?fromvsogou=1

这车看来（复兴号）跑 450km/h 完全木问题啊

 

[TaiShang]

济(南)--青(岛)
ji nan--qingdao

Jinan--Qingdao did not already have an HSR line?

@long_ , @AndrewJin

I remember once I took HSR from Jinan to Jimo 即墨 -- couple of years back.

 

[艹艹艹]

Jinan--Qingdao did not already have an HSR line?

@long_ , @AndrewJin

I remember once I took HSR from Jinan to Jimo 即墨 -- couple of years back.

那我就给你讲讲吧
济南到青岛的高铁，要从2008年的奥运会开始，那时候水上帆船的比赛设在了青岛，为了给交通带来便捷就在原来铁路的基础上进行了一下升级，达到了跑动车组的条件。但是速度一直提不上去，从京沪高铁济南西站开始转向青岛方向，速度就从原来的300+km/h降到了最高200km/h
现在即将开通的才是真正意义上的高铁线路，在原线路的北边重新修建的，，最高时速350 初期300
即墨在青岛北边 原来是县级市，现在变成区了 升级了 青岛市 即墨区

 

[JSCh]

Lhasa-Nyingchi section of Sichuan-Tibet railway under construction
Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-19 07:31:33|Editor: Yang Yi


Staff members work on the construction site of Yarlung Zangbo River bridge of the Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet railway on a snowy day in Gonggar County of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, Dec. 18, 2018. The 435.48-kilometer-long Lhasa-Nyingchi section of the Sichuan-Tibet railway is expected to be put into operation in 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Quanquan)

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[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

China's Inner Mongolia Province will join China's national high-speed rail network at the end of December
Beiqing Network 2018-12-19 17:03:24
http://www.ynet.com/index.html
According to Xinhua News Agency, the first high-speed railway in Inner Mongolia, which is connected to the national plan for the “eight horizontal and eight vertical” high-speed rail network – Xintong High-speed Railway (Xinmin North to Tongliao High-speed Railway) will be opened at the end of December.

The Xintong high-speed railway started construction in June 2016 with a construction mileage of 197 kilometers. It is a two-line electrified orbit with a design speed of 250 kilometers per hour. There are 6 stations in the line, which are taken from the Beijing-Shenyang High-speed Railway Xinmin North Station, and arrive at Tongliao Station via Zhangwu, Zhanggutai, Ganqika and Mulitu. Since the joint test of the new high-speed rail in August 2018, the functions of each system and the overall system have been verified and optimized through dynamic detection of tracks, roadbeds, bridges, tunnels, and communications.

The reporter learned that after the opening of the Xintong high-speed railway, it will become the most convenient and fast passenger transportation route from the eastern part of Inner Mongolia to Shenyang and Beijing. The running time from Tongliao to Shenyang will be shortened from about 5 hours to about 1.5 hours. The running time of Tongliao to Beijing will be shortened from about 14 hours to about 3.5 hours.

The Xintong high-speed railway is connected with the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway, enabling Inner Mongolia to access the northeast region and even the national high-speed rail network for the first time.

It will strengthen economic and social exchanges between the eastern Inner Mongolia and the Bohai Rim region, promote the revitalization of the eastern Inner Mongolia and the three northeastern provinces, and promote the eastern region of Inner Mongolia. The coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei will play an important role.

Tongliao Station
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Text / Wang Ronghui