China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[AndrewJin]

High-speed Railway Open Day for Children!
Nanning Railway Bureau, Southwest China

@grey boy 2 @powastick @anant_s et al

 

[anant_s]

High-speed Railway Open Day for Children!
Nanning Railway Bureau, Southwest China
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@grey boy 2 @powastick @anant_s et al

Wonderful Gesture!
This will attract interest of young ones towards railways, some might even pursue a career in this industry

 

[powastick]

Currently the semi-HSR from Chengdu to Shanghai is horrible....

Why is it horrible?

 

[JSCh]

A joint partnership to build the China-Russia Tongjiang Rail Bridge

By Yang Wentao and Zhu Qinliang
2017-08-27 18:40 GMT+8

The first railway bridge to cross the border between China and Russia, China-Russia Tongjiang Rail Bridge is set to open to traffic in June next year, as the two BRICS nations seek to increase cooperation during the upcoming BRICS Summit, which will be held in the city of Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province next month.

Joint infrastructure projects have historically been good ways to pull nations together. The BRICS nations differ in many ways. Language, culture, history, and geography separate the five member countries. But one thing all BRICS have in common is the desire to improve their infrastructures. Even a comparatively simple project, the building of a bridge, can have huge ramifications.

The construction site /CGTN Photo

In the 1950s China and Russia cooperated to build railroads. Sixty years later, they are doing it again. Although the construction methods have changed, cooperation is the key.The project will take three years to complete. When it is done, the tracks will connect to the Russian Trans-Siberian railroad.

China-Russia Tongjiang Rail Bridge /CGTN Photo

China-Russia Tongjiang Rail Bridge will connect Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province to Nizhneleninskoye (Нижнеле́нинское) in Russia.

The total length of this bridge is 2,280 meters and the capacity will reach 2,000-2,500 million tons per year.

The bridge will finally connect Russia and China. /CGTN Photo

The bridge is one of the most important infrastructure projects to promote the implementation of the "construction of the Mongolian economic corridor planning."

The greatest geographical advantage will be seen with the completion of the bridge. It is expected to increase the flow of people, capital, technology and information between the two countries, benefiting both economies.

 

[AndrewJin]

The end of slow train in China?

<160km/h slow trains in Southwest China

Wonderful Gesture!
This will attract interest of young ones towards railways, some might even pursue a career in this industry

Hope so!
Working for railways is rewarding.

 

[JSCh]

Key project for China-Myanmar railway! China drilling its longest rail tunnel
New China TV Published on Aug 29, 2017

With the help of the country's first homemade tunnel boring machine, engineers are drilling China's longest rail tunnel. The 34.5km-ling Gaoligong Mountain Tunnel, which sits in southwest China's Yunnan, is part of a railway which will eventually connect China and Myanmar.

 

[AndrewJin]

Key project for China-Myanmar railway! China drilling its longest rail tunnel
New China TV Published on Aug 29, 2017

With the help of the country's first homemade tunnel boring machine, engineers are drilling China's longest rail tunnel. The 34.5km-ling Gaoligong Mountain Tunnel, which sits in southwest China's Yunnan, is part of a railway which will eventually connect China and Myanmar.

Via Tengchong?

 

[AndrewJin]

Key project for China-Myanmar railway! China drilling its longest rail tunnel
New China TV Published on Aug 29, 2017

With the help of the country's first homemade tunnel boring machine, engineers are drilling China's longest rail tunnel. The 34.5km-ling Gaoligong Mountain Tunnel, which sits in southwest China's Yunnan, is part of a railway which will eventually connect China and Myanmar.

 

[Blue Marlin]

@TaiShang Thanks.
Let's slow down a little bit, enjoy some photos of China's slow railways
Slow is beauty!

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@grey boy 2 @anant_s @PaklovesTurkiye @ChineseTiger1986 et al

do note some of these trains are cargo/bulk trains. there not supposed to go high speed, at most 70mph.

otoh Chinese hsr's are amazing my favourite being the bombardier zefiro380 series

 

[AndrewJin]

do note some of these trains are cargo/bulk trains. there not supposed to go high speed, at most 70mph.

otoh Chinese hsr's are amazing my favourite being the bombardier zefiro380 series

Didn't I write "Let's slow down a little bit, enjoy some photos of China's slow railways
Slow is beauty!" ?
If you have nothing to contribute, simply refrain from this thread, thanks

Why is it horrible?

It's only a corridor made up of high-speed railways of different maximum limits.
Some sections (Shanghai-Beijing, Chengdu-Chongqing) can reach 350km/h.
The rest is only 200-250km/h, some mountainous sections only 160km/h.
Along this railway, we have Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu.
Every single above-mentioned city has a population more than 10 million, the traffic need is huge.
If the speed is 350km/h, 2000km from Shanghai to Chengdu can be covered within 7 hours (now 13 hours!).

Wuhan

The following video is about scenery along Yichang-Wanzhou Railway, part of this Shanghai-Chengdu corridor.
Only 160km/h
When the railway was designed, China's infra construction was still weak.
The altitude chosen is relatively low (you can see from the video how high the parallel expressway is).
This is very dangerous during summer, flooding is frequent inside numerous tunnels.
Now, we can simply build very high bridges to avoid floods and tunnel collapsing (typical Karst landform).

278km, 7 years

The current corridor could be an important freight corridor when the new Shanghai-Chengdu HSR opens.

 

[cirr]

China railways record 592 mln passenger trips during summer travel peak

2017-09-01 09:45:28 GMT2017-09-01 17:45:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's railway network saw about 592 million passenger trips during the summer travel peak, which ran from July 1 to August 31, data from China Railway Corporation showed Friday.

The volume marked a year-on-year increase of 9.6 percent, with an average of 9.55 million trips made each day.

Traffic on China's high-speed rail lines saw fast growth, with an average of 639,000 passengers travelling on the line linking Beijing and Guangzhou each day.

In China, summer holidays for students usually last from early July to the end of August, driving up passenger flows.

As of the end of 2016, China had a 124,000-km railway network, featuring the world's largest high-speed rail network of more than 22,000 km.

http://english.sina.com/news/2017-09-01/detail-ifykpzey3659410.shtml

Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway to be completed by end of 2018

Photo taken on July 18, 2017 shows a railway construction site of Shenyang west station section, northeast China's Liaoning Province. The Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway, linking China's capital Beijing and the Liaoning provincial capital Shenyang, is about 700 km long and is designed with a speed of 350 km per hour. Work on the Beijing-Shenyang railway project started in 2014. And it is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

Photo taken on June 17, 2017 shows a railway construction site of Shenyang west station section in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows the construction site of railway station in Fuxin

Photo taken on July 12, 2017 shows a construction site of the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway in Fuxin

Photo taken on July 11, 2017 shows the construction site of Heishan north railway station of the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...36477678_2.htm
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[AndrewJin]

China railways record 592 mln passenger trips during summer travel peak

2017-09-01 09:45:28 GMT2017-09-01 17:45:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- China's railway network saw about 592 million passenger trips during the summer travel peak, which ran from July 1 to August 31, data from China Railway Corporation showed Friday.

The volume marked a year-on-year increase of 9.6 percent, with an average of 9.55 million trips made each day.

Traffic on China's high-speed rail lines saw fast growth, with an average of 639,000 passengers travelling on the line linking Beijing and Guangzhou each day.

In China, summer holidays for students usually last from early July to the end of August, driving up passenger flows.

As of the end of 2016, China had a 124,000-km railway network, featuring the world's largest high-speed rail network of more than 22,000 km.

http://english.sina.com/news/2017-09-01/detail-ifykpzey3659410.shtml

Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway to be completed by end of 2018

Photo taken on July 18, 2017 shows a railway construction site of Shenyang west station section, northeast China's Liaoning Province. The Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway, linking China's capital Beijing and the Liaoning provincial capital Shenyang, is about 700 km long and is designed with a speed of 350 km per hour. Work on the Beijing-Shenyang railway project started in 2014. And it is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. (Xinhua/Yang Qing)

Photo taken on June 17, 2017 shows a railway construction site of Shenyang west station section in northeast China's Liaoning Province.

Photo taken on May 23, 2017 shows the construction site of railway station in Fuxin

Photo taken on July 12, 2017 shows a construction site of the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway in Fuxin

Photo taken on July 11, 2017 shows the construction site of Heishan north railway station of the Beijing-Shenyang high-speed railway

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...36477678_2.htm
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can't believe they have wasted so much time on this crucial HSR....

Nanning-Yulin-Shenzhen HSR proposed, to begin construction during 13th 5-year-plan
The second high-speed railway linking Nanning to Pearl River Delta

 

[JSCh]

Urrr... maybe should be in the J-20 thread??

Model plane stops high-speed train, operator detained
2017-09-03 10:52, Xinhua

The model plane is shattered into pieces after being hit by the high-speed train.​

A man has been detained after operating a model plane that forced a high-speed train to stop in north China's Hebei Province, police said Saturday.

The man, surnamed Pang, was testing the home-made model plane in late August in Luanxian County, when the plane fell onto the high-speed railway line connecting Beijing and Qinhuangdao, a coastal city in Hebei, said a police officer with Beijing Railway Police Bureau.

The bureau is responsible for railway and train security in Beijing, Hebei and Tianjin.

The G2604 train was forced to stop on the line and was delayed for 22 minutes, the officer said.

Low-altitude flying objects, such as kites and balloons, are banned within 500 meters of railway lines in China. Violators will be detained and may face criminal charges.

 

[cirr]

China researches 600 km/h maglev train

2017-09-04 16:17

Ecns.cn Editor: Mo Hong'e

(ECNS) -- China's high-speed railcar maker CRRC has started a special project to research high-speed rail vehicles that can reach speeds up to 600 kilometers per hour, according to Sun Bangcheng, deputy director of CRRC Industrial Research Institute.

The project, one of 18 national key research and development plans set by the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2016, is researching both high-speed passenger and freight trains, Sun said. The project will be completed by 2021 at a total investment of over 9 billion yuan ($580 million).

The project includes six types of trains -- three for freight, one high-speed passenger train and two types of maglev trains, according to Chinese-language Science and Technology Daily.

Freight trains with speeds of 250 km/h can transport seafood from Haikou in South China's Hainan Province to Beijing in north China in one day, according to a project officer at CRRC.

Research into maglev includes a train that can reach 600 km/h and another that travels at 200 km/h. Research is to prepare for "the post-high-speed rail age" in technology, said Sun.

The cost of a 600 km/h maglev train is almost the same as a 400 km/h version, according to recent research.

So far, Japanese-made maglev trains can travel 603 km/h at its maximum speed and German-designed maglevs can hit 505 km/h. The operating speed of maglev trains in Shanghai, which use German technology, is 430 km/h.

The first Chinese-made high-speed maglev train will roll off the operation line in 2018, the report said.

At a forum in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, Liu Shiquan, deputy general manager at CASIC, said China will research ultra-speed trains that can "fly" at 4,000 km/h.

http://www.ecns.cn/cns-wire/2017/09-04/272064.shtml

 

[JSCh]

China lays track for longest high-speed railway in high latitude area
Source: Xinhua| 2017-09-06 19:04:46|Editor: Zhou Xin



HARBIN, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Track laying of the 343 km Harbin-Jiamusi high-speed railway, China's longest high-speed railway in a high latitude area, has been finished, according to China Railway on Wednesday.

According to the company, the high-speed railway is planned to open in June 2018.

Running at 200 kilometers per hour, the railway will cut travel time between Harbin, capital of northeast Heilongjiang Province, and Jiamusi in the same province to 1.5 hours from 7 hours.

The railway has 14 stops, including Binxi, Fangzheng, Demoli and Yilan.

The line is expected to increase freight and passenger capacity between cities along the route and facilitate China's trade with Russia, as Jiamusi is near the border.

The high latitude railway runs through four tunnels and on 120 bridges, according to Yuan Zhengguo, director of the railway's engineering headquarters.

China has the world's longest high-speed rail network, about 22,000 kilometers at the end of last year, about 60 percent of the world's total.