China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[JSCh]

China to put more railway trains into operation
Xinhua, May 13, 2016

China will run more trains from Sunday, the largest expansion of railway transport capacity for ten years, the China Railway Corporation said on Thursday.

Passenger trains will grow by nearly 300 pairs to 3,400 pairs, 2,100 pairs of which are high-speed.

Cargo train connecting China with Europe and other parts of Asia will climb to 62.

China put 9,531 kilometers of lines into operation in 2015, when the target was only 8,000 kilometers, spending 824 billion yuan (about 127 billion U.S. dollars).

 

[AndrewJin]

China to put more railway trains into operation
Xinhua, May 13, 2016

China will run more trains from Sunday, the largest expansion of railway transport capacity for ten years, the China Railway Corporation said on Thursday.

Passenger trains will grow by nearly 300 pairs to 3,400 pairs, 2,100 pairs of which are high-speed.

Cargo train connecting China with Europe and other parts of Asia will climb to 62.

China put 9,531 kilometers of lines into operation in 2015, when the target was only 8,000 kilometers, spending 824 billion yuan (about 127 billion U.S. dollars).

60% bullet trains!!!

Thats true, carrying a DSLR is literally a pain on neck, but then again, image quality and light control is something every photographer desires.
I usually take my EOS 500D with general purpose 70-200 f 4L IS, that almost covers all range and sometimes during long range landscape shots, 16-35 f4 L IS ii, too comes in handy. Unfortunately, IS lenses from Cannon are heavy and during long day photo sessions in field, one is really tired with all this load

Yes.
I really admire those tourists with a big bag full of lenses even on 5km high mountains!
See these tourists, they even brought a DJI drone!
I nearly killed myself by merely walking with food and a phone (of course with a 20,000mAh power pack), but they did it with a heavy box of drone!

@GS Zhou Think about going to a mountain in the west, with DJI taking a panoramic view!

 

[AndrewJin]

SS8 in motion!
max. 240km/h

 

[AndrewJin]

CRH in Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia is one of the very few provinces that have CRH services though not connected to the national high-speed network. A couple of years later before the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing & Zhangjiakou, there will be direct services from Beijing to the capital city of Hohhot and more HSR lines are under construction or being planned such as Hohhot-Yinchuan HSR.

Slow trains in Inner Mongolia

 

[yantong1980]

Nice pic Andrew, keep'em coming. Make me want to try one of those HSR.

 

[AndrewJin]

Nice pic Andrew, keep'em coming. Make me want to try one of those HSR.

I'm glad you enjoy this thread.
Since today (the biggest timetable upgrade in this decade), the percentage of bullet trains reaches a record of 60%!


CRH in Yan'an, the heart of pre-1949 revolution,
Northern Shannxi Province

Aboard the Yan'an-Xi'an bullet train CRH380A
From the revolutionary capital to the Silk Road Capital
@ahojunk @yantong1980 @Daniel808 @kuge

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

 

[JSCh]

China to expand railway lines starting
2016-05-15 14:40 CRIENGLISH.com

File Photo of Beijing Railway Dispatch and Command Center. (Photo/Xinhua)​

China's national rail system is set to become a lot more crowded as of this Sunday when the country will see its largest increase in passenger rail service in a decade.

The China Railway Corporation, the former Ministry of Railways, has announced it's putting an additional 34-hundred new passenger trains into service as of Sunday.

More than half of them will be on high-speed rail lines.

Most of the newly added high-speed services will be added to routes which service small-and-medium-sized cities and in the country's western regions.

Around 100 new inter-city trains are also going to be added to the lines to help people commute between big cities and their neighboring small towns.

In addition, 69 new railway lines are going to be opened specifically for day-trips outside of major cities in an attempt to increase weekend tourism.

In announcing the additional services, China Railway Corporation says ticket prices will remain the same.

China put nearly 10,000 kilometers of rail lines into operation in 2015.

More than 2.5 billion trips were made last year through the country's railways.

 

[AndrewJin]

China to expand railway lines starting
2016-05-15 14:40 CRIENGLISH.com

File Photo of Beijing Railway Dispatch and Command Center. (Photo/Xinhua)​

China's national rail system is set to become a lot more crowded as of this Sunday when the country will see its largest increase in passenger rail service in a decade.

The China Railway Corporation, the former Ministry of Railways, has announced it's putting an additional 34-hundred new passenger trains into service as of Sunday.

More than half of them will be on high-speed rail lines.

Most of the newly added high-speed services will be added to routes which service small-and-medium-sized cities and in the country's western regions.

Around 100 new inter-city trains are also going to be added to the lines to help people commute between big cities and their neighboring small towns.

In addition, 69 new railway lines are going to be opened specifically for day-trips outside of major cities in an attempt to increase weekend tourism.

In announcing the additional services, China Railway Corporation says ticket prices will remain the same.

China put nearly 10,000 kilometers of rail lines into operation in 2015.

More than 2.5 billion trips were made last year through the country's railways.

China Adds Services to Railway System

Passengers get on a bullet train at Shijiazhuang Rail Station, north China's Hebei province on May 15, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

Traveling around China via trains is becoming more convenient.

As of Sunday, 3,400 new passenger trains, over half being on high-speed rail lines, have been put into service in China's national rail system.

Most of the newly added high-speed services were added to routes which service small-and-medium-sized cities and in the country's western regions.

In addition, 69 new railway lines open specifically for day-trips outside of major cities in an attempt to increase weekend tourism.

For commuters traveling between big cities and their neighboring small towns, around 100 new inter-city trains were also put into service.

China Railway Corporation has also promised that ticket prices will remain the same.

China put nearly 10,000 kilometers of rail lines into operation in 2015.

More than 2.5 billion trips were made last year through the country's railways.

The national railway system has implemented a new train diagram.


Passengers get on a bullet train at Beijing West Rail Station
on May 15, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

A photo taken on May 15, 2016 shows a bullet train in Shijiazhuang,
north China's Hebei province. [Photo: Xinhua]

 

[AndrewJin]

Dragon's inclusive growth in Africa
Abuja-Kaduna Railway to Open to Traffic
The Abuja-Kaduna Railway, constructed by China Civil and Engineering Construction Company (CCECC), will open for operations at the end of May.

This is the first railway in Africa that is constructed based on Chinese technical standards.

The rail also received financing from the Export-Import Bank of China and others.

The 187-km railway, which connects Nigeria's Idu to its northern business center Kaduna City, is part of the Lagos-Kano standard gauge project.

Building the railway also involved the construction of 30 bridges, including five box bridges.

The railway has nine stops and features both passenger and cargo trains. It was designed for trains with an average speed of 150 kilometers per hour.

@TaiShang @ahojunk

 

[cirr]

Mon May 16, 2016 2:23am EDT

China to let more cities build metro systems - Economic Information Daily

A China Railway High-speed (CRH) Harmony bullet train pulls into the Shenyang Railway Station in Shenyang, Liaoning province in this file photo dated July 31, 2012.
REUTERS/STRINGER


China plans to relax minimum population requirements for cities that wish to build subway systems, opening up opportunities for a fresh bonanza of infrastructure investment, the state-owned Economic Information Daily reported on Monday.

Citing unidentified authorities, the newspaper said that cities with an urban population of more than 1.5 million people would be allowed to build metro projects.

Previously, only cities with a population of more than 3 million people and annual revenues of 10 billion yuan ($1.53 billion) were eligible.

The relaxation underscores China's continued reliance on investment-led growth to support the slowing economy, which is credited by analysts as being behind recent signs of improvement in activity but also as creating a risk as debt levels rise.

The newspaper said China's economic development had reached a new stage in which the fast expansion of cities was spurring traffic demand, and that population size should no longer be a key determinant of urban rail transit construction.

Last week, China's transport ministry said the country will invest around 4.7 trillion yuan in transport infrastructure projects over the next three years.

So far, 26 Chinese cities have built metro systems while another 39 have projects approved, the National Development and Reform Commission said in January.

(Reporting by Brenda Goh; Editing by John Ruwitch and Kim Coghill)

 

[AndrewJin]

Moderate luxury, SAME PRICE!!!
"Dunhuang Express" Finishes Its First Trip
The "Dunhuang Express", starting from Gansu, has arrived in Beijing on May 14, 2016. The train is decorated with artistic patterns bringing Dunhuang culture to Beijing as well as to the 30 stops along the route. China Railway Engineering Corporation plans to put another 106 tourism expresses into operation this year. The 106 routes will all lead to the Silk Road area. [Photo: weibo.com]

Exactly same price as regular slow trains
Overnight train from Beijing to the Silk Road city Dunhuang.
Explore the Silk Road!
@anant_s @UKBengali @Gibbs @kuge @Götterdämmerung @ahojunk

 

[Kiss_of_the_Dragon]

 

[AndrewJin]

Although there is no an official 8th speed up campaign after 2007, the upgrading and electrification of existing railways are always on the way.
Yesterday witnessed the inauguration of the upgraded 200km/h Nanjing-Nantong railway which has transformed from a 140km/h non-electrified single-track railway into a standard semi-HSR, though this opening has been delayed for years and angered many people when the journalists always wrote it would be opened soon for a couple of years. lol

First day, nearly 100% patronage

Nanjing-Nantong 4 hours >>> 2 hours 22min
Hankou-Nantong 15 hours >>>>5 hours

@anant_s @Echo_419 @Spectre
Such upgrading project to increase maximum speed to 200-250km/h is relatively economical and also faster to be implemented than a new HSR (Some may not agree). Tickets are also cheap, 284km 105.5yuan ($16).
Seats on a D train on upgraded 200-250km/h railway are larger than ANY economical class on the planes

 

[Jlaw]

I'd love to, but I have stopped taking a giant camera with multiple lenses during my trips for years!
It's a torture to do it especially when u have to climb high for the best shot!

And smart phone photo is not that bad!
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at least put a watermark so others cannot claim your photos as theirs