China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[hexagonsnow]

I went to Zhangbei at Ausgust for driving throgh the Grassland Road ,a long road across the grassland,blue sky \countless sheep and cow along the road.The air smeell better clean than Beijing on the countryside.

 

[ahojunk]

Shanghai to Zhengzhou, it will takes 4 hours since today by HSR, across 4 provinces from East to Central China.
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New high-speed train cuts travel time
By Zhang Ningning | September 5, 2016, Monday |

THE train journey from Shanghai to northwest China’s Xi’an City will be shortened to six hours from nearly 11 hours, thanks to a newly connected high-speed railway going into operation on Saturday, officials said yesterday.

The Zhengxu High-speed Railway is the first service of its kind connecting the Yangtze River Delta with northwest China.

The journey between Shanghai and central China’s Zhengzhou City will be cut to four hours — 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter.

With the new railway connected, Shanghai Railway Bureau said it will introduce a new route map from Saturday to improve service, adding that 47 new trains will join the fleet.

Meanwhile, high-speed train services will be introduced between Shanghai and Taiyuan in north China’s Shanxi Province, as well as between Shanghai and Shijiazhuang in north China’s Hebei Province.

The shortest travel time will be cut to nine hours and seven hours respectively.

Shanghai’s railway stations will also add train services to neighboring cities including Wuhu, Wenzhou and Xuzhou and other places within the Yangtze River Delta area.

 

[Place Of Space]

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New high-speed train cuts travel time
By Zhang Ningning | September 5, 2016, Monday |

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THE train journey from Shanghai to northwest China’s Xi’an City will be shortened to six hours from nearly 11 hours, thanks to a newly connected high-speed railway going into operation on Saturday, officials said yesterday.

The Zhengxu High-speed Railway is the first service of its kind connecting the Yangtze River Delta with northwest China.

The journey between Shanghai and central China’s Zhengzhou City will be cut to four hours — 2 hours and 47 minutes shorter.

With the new railway connected, Shanghai Railway Bureau said it will introduce a new route map from Saturday to improve service, adding that 47 new trains will join the fleet.

Meanwhile, high-speed train services will be introduced between Shanghai and Taiyuan in north China’s Shanxi Province, as well as between Shanghai and Shijiazhuang in north China’s Hebei Province.

The shortest travel time will be cut to nine hours and seven hours respectively.

Shanghai’s railway stations will also add train services to neighboring cities including Wuhu, Wenzhou and Xuzhou and other places within the Yangtze River Delta area.

This line is going across one of high density of population areas. It should have been constructed many years ago.

 

[AndrewJin]

This line is going across one of high density of population areas. It should have been constructed many years ago.

Yes...And this is the first time a 350km/h HSR connects the network in Northwest China to Eastern China.

Man that's breathtakingly beautiful.

Welcome!
That county will co-host Olympics with Beijing in 2022！

The grassland in Chongli County, Hebei Province

 

[cirr]

@AndrewJin Not sure if you have seen this, if not, then...

http://weibo.com/p/2304447707e35c244a20e24e7442d822b79dab

 

[AndrewJin]

@AndrewJin Not sure if you have seen this, if not, then...

http://weibo.com/p/2304447707e35c244a20e24e7442d822b79dab

Cool!
Chengdu Railway Bureau, so on Chengdu-Chongqing HSR or Chengdu-Shanghai HSR?

 

[AndrewJin]

How does security at railway stations work?
Jiaxing South Railway Station, Zhejiang Province

 

[TaiShang]

China to invest 500 billion yuan in railways in second half of 2016
Yuan Can
September 08, 2016
People's Daily

China has plans to invest at least 493.2 billion yuan in new railway construction in the second half of 2016, Caixin reported. This push is being carried out in order to fulfill the country’s 800-billion-yuan goal for the year.

Fixed asset investment in China's railways from January to June 2016 amounted to 306.75 billion yuan – 27.47 billion yuan higher than in the same period last year, yielding a year-on-year increase of 9.8 percent, according to the China Railway Corporation (CRC).

National railway fixed assets investment consists of investment from both state railways and local railways. State railways fixed assets investment rose 10.4 percent year on year to 292.67 billion yuan; that of local railways came to 14.08 billion yuan.

Although CRC has only completed 38.34 percent of its total target for 2016, its investment situation is better than that in the same periods of 2014 and 2015, which had numbers of 29.39 and 35 percent respectively.

An employee from CRC told Caixin that the investment completed is better than expected, and total investment in 2016 might even set a record. The source said if the investment scale continues this year, then annual investment in fixed assets is capable not only of exceeding last year’s 823.8 billion yuan, but even of surpassing 2010’s 842.65 billion yuan.

National railway fixed assets investment has achieved four consecutive years of growth, and growth in the last two years was more than 800 billion yuan. Previous reports have stated that China plans to invest at least 3.8 trillion yuan ($538 billion) in new railway construction during the country's 13th Five-Year Plan period. This capital would push China's railroads to a record 150,000 kilometers, and high-speed rails to 30,000 kilometers, Caixin Media quoted from a draft proposal by transportation authorities.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Are there any pics/videos of the contained smoking areas in CRH trains?

I think no smoking area in CRH, (at least I didn't meet).
Because the CRH is enclosed compartment, so heavily dependent on air circulation system.
You can imagine, when you smoke in CRH, then cycle...
Like CRH not selling instant noodles...
That is your "eternal life unforgettable memories.

I don't know how to explain, it is this meaning...

 

[AndrewJin]

I think no smoking area in CRH, (at least I didn't meet).
Because the CRH is enclosed compartment, so heavily dependent on air circulation system.
You can imagine, when you smoke in CRH, then cycle...
Like CRH not selling instant noodles...
That is your "eternal life unforgettable memories.
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I don't know how to explain, it is this meaning...

Good photo for explanation.
Smoking anywhere inside the train will trigger the alarm, leading to an automatic stop and causing timetable "upheaval"

 

[cirr]

Zhengzhou – Jinan PDL approved

05 Sep 2016



CHINA: The National Development & Reform Commission has approved the construction of a 391 km passenger-dedicated line connecting Zhengzhou and Jinan, at an estimated cost of 50·4bn yuan. According to a feasibility report adopted on August 31, the line is due to be completed by 2020, serving en route the growing city of Puyang in the north of Henan province.

Henan is looking to develop a network of 10 regional PDLs to augment the north-south Beijing – Guangzhou and east-west Xi’an – Xuzhou corridors that intersect at Zhengzhou. Lines have already been approved running southwest to Nanyang and Wanzhou, southeast to Fuyang and Hefei, and northwest to Taiyuan. The Jinan line would run northeast along the Yellow River valley from Zhengzhou Dong, serving intermediate stations at Xinxiang Dong, Hui Nan, Puyang Dong and Liaocheng.

Connecting with the Beijing – Shanghai and Jinan – Qingdao PDLs, the new line is expected to improve connections between Zhengzhou, Puyang and the Bohai economic region in neighbouring Shandong province. Approximately 237 km of the line will lie in Henan and the remainder in Shandong. A Puyang City Development Zone is to be created around Puyang Dong station, which is forecast to be handling more than 6 million passengers per year. Construction is expected to begin at the end of October.

Meanwhile, September 1 saw the start of tracklaying on the Shaanxi section of the 510 km Xi’an – Chengdu PDL, which is expected to open for revenue service by the end of 2017. Tracklaying is initially working southwards from the Han River bridge at Hanzhong, towards the Qinling mountains; work on the 238 km northern section from there to Xi’an Bei is expected to start shortly for completion by February. In total, 672 km of track is to be laid in Shaanxi.

• Marking the first anniversary of the opening of the Shenyang – Dandong PDL on September 1, Shenyang Railway Bureau announced that the 207 km line had carried 13·2 million passengers in its first year of operation. This represented 36 000 passengers per day, with a peak single-day ridership of 71 000. The line is served by 39 trains each way per day, with a fastest journey time of 1 h 11 min. Some trains run through to Beijing, giving a fastest connection between the capital and the northeastern port city of 6 h 15 min.

http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/high-speed/single-view/view/zhengzhou-jinan-pdl-approved.html

 

[TaiShang]

Chinese vs. Japanese high-speed trains: amateur test declares China the winner
September 08, 2016
People's Daily Online

Beijing Times reposted on its official Sina Weibo account on Sept. 5 the video that shows failed attempts to balance a coin on a Japanese high-speed train. [Photo/Weibo]

A video claiming to test the stability of Japanese bullet trains has recently attracted media attention. The video came on the heels of a similar video, purporting to test the stability of Chinese high-speed trains.

A nearly 10-minute video clip widely circulated on Chinese video portals and social media throughout 2015. A Swedish man named Ola Von Koskull claimed to have shot the video while aboard the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, uploading it to YouTube on March 14, 2015. The Swede successfully balanced a coin on the window sill of a CRH380 train traveling at 300 kilometers per hour (186 miles per hour) for nearly eight minutes. The video has garnered complimentary comments on both YouTube and its Chinese counterpart, Youku.

On Sept. 1, the Sina Weibo account “Ding Ji Jian Zhu” posted a one-minute video claiming that someone had carried out the same test on the 700 Series Shinkansen bullet train in Japan. The video shows a person trying to balance a coin on the window sill of a moving train, but failing several times over the course of about 50 seconds. The video has been reposted by a number of Chinese media outlets, including the Beijing Times and Global Times.

Although the two tests were not totally comparable, as they used different coins, the relative stability and smoothness of the Chinese high-speed rail seems quite clear. Since the videos came out, several experts have offered explanations for the impressive stability of Chinese trains, thepaper.cn reported.

As the video shows, the coin stayed balanced even when the train stopped at the Changzhou North station, decelerating from 300 kilometers per hour to a full stop. This is due to the fact that the braking deceleration rate of the CRH380 train is less than 0.75 meters per second squared, which guarantees a smooth stop.

Chinese railways also adopt a larger railway curve radius, which prevents trains from making steep turns and ensures that trains make only the mildest horizontal motion when taking a turn. The minimum railway curve radius in European and Japanese railways is usually around 4 kilometers, but in China, for a train with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour, the curve radius is at least 7 kilometers. The CRH380 train in the video had a curve radius of 9 kilometers. To contain vertical vibrations, Chinese railways are built with mild slopes.

Another secret for stability is the use of long steel pieces, which reduces friction in the joints of the railway. Every piece of steel has a length of 100 meters, four times longer than those used to build most ordinary railroads. While welding two pieces of steel together, no gap is permitted to be more than 0.3 millimeters wide, which is equal in size to four human hairs.

Without a doubt, every component of China’s railways features precise craftsmanship.

@long_

 

[AndrewJin]

Chinese title:
Too handsome, no friend!
The perennial classic of CRH: CRH380A Big Wolf
帅到没朋友！中国高铁永恒的经典——CRH380A大灰狼

 

[Mustang06]

Damn impressive! At the pace Chinese are laying HSR tracks you'll run out of normal tracks!

 

[TaiShang]

China's high speed railway exceeds 20,000 km
Xinhua, September 10, 2016

A high-speed railway linking Zhengzhou in central China's Henan Province with Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu Province opened Saturday.

The 360-km line connects high-speed railway in the west with two major north-south lines, helping cut travel time between the west and east.

The travel time between Xi'an and Shanghai is cut to six hours from nearly 11 hours.

The line has nine stations and trains run at a speed of up to 300 km per hour in the initial period.

Construction of the line started in December 2012 and test operation started in April 2016.

With the operation of the new line, China's high-speed railway lines have exceeded 20,000 km in total length, the world's longest.


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