China's sea-crossing high-speed railway starts operation in Fujian and China's high spead railway news for this week

[beijingwalker]

China's high spead railway news for this week

China's sea-crossing high-speed railway starts operation in Fujian

A sea-crossing high-speed railway linking Fuzhou with Pingtan, a mainland island closest to Taiwan, has started operation in Fujian, China. #HighSpeedRail

New high-speed railway starts operation in west China
A new high-speed railway linking Yinchuan with Xi'an starts operation in west China. It's the first high-speed railway that runs through China's Loess Plateau. #HighSpeedRail

Faster Fuxing bullet trains put into use on Chengdu-Chongqing high-speed railway

World's first 350 km/h freight train off assembly line

China's high-speed trains pilot "quiet car" service

 

[shi12jun]

This month, China has successively opened several new high-speed rails.

 

[beijingwalker]

This month, China has successively opened several new high-speed rails.

This week
Live: High-speed railway connecting Beijing with Xiong'an New Area opens

Xiong'an New Area, China

Live: High-speed railway connecting Beijing with Xiong'an New Area opens

One of the biggest high-speed railway station in northern China, Xiong'an Railway Station, opens on December 27. A new railway linking Beijing and the Xiong'an New Area also opens the same day.

news.cgtn.com

 

[letsrock]

whats the total length now

 

[FuturePAF]

This maybe the best time to look at building the high speed freight and passenger line from Urumqi to Moscow and onwards to Germany, instead of more lines inside China to maximize the utility of the lines already in operation and recoup some of the investment. East/west high speed freight traffic will better integrate Eurasia. This would also help shift some Chinese factories to lower labor cost provinces in the interior of China.

 

[Place Of Space]

whats the total length now

Total length of each province

 

[letsrock]

Total length of each province
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They are already close to 40k? it was like 36k just few months back.

 

[Cheehg]

This maybe the best time to look at building the high speed freight and passenger line from Urumqi to Moscow and onwards to Germany, instead of more lines inside China to maximize the utility of the lines already in operation and recoup some of the investment. East/west high speed freight traffic will better integrate Eurasia. This would also help shift some Chinese factories to lower labor cost provinces in the interior of China.

High speed train has maximum distance per trip. It needs to be maintained after certain milage. Intercontinental train trip is way too long for it. It would be great if China can manage to convince center Asia countries to build standard gauge railway to link Iran and then Turkey. From there continue to Europe and Africa.

Total length of each province
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Only 4 other countries have more than 2000 kms. Spain, Japan, France and Germany.

 

[FuturePAF]

High speed train has maximum distance per trip. It needs to be maintained after certain milage. Intercontinental train trip is way too long for it. It would be great if China can manage to convince center Asia countries to build standard gauge railway to link Iran and then Turkey. From there continue to Europe and Africa.

Only 4 other countries have more than 2000 kms. Spain, Japan, France and Germany.

There is a lot of political uncertainty building in Central Asia and Iran and the Balkans. It is more economically and politically feasible to build a route from the existing terminus of the Chinese HSR network at Urumqi, through just Russia, Belarus and Poland to Germany and the European HSR network.

If a intercontinental HSR route is needed, Russia maybe able to self finance it for their own geo-strategic and economic needs. Also the requirement could spur on R&D into better trains that can manage the distance.