(All of these are posted originally by mozilla, thanks.)
The new Qinghai-Xizang(Tibet) railroad u/c
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Qingzang railroad
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Qingzang railroad u/c

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New locomotive made for Qingzang railroad
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DF889002, Divine boat in the snow land
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Tianjin newly built light rail, from city to the habor.

The car was made in Changchun
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Inside the train
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Nice train
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Train in the station
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escalate
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New Beijing North railway station plan. Beijing will build a very large morden traffic center at Xizhimen, for both railroad and light-rail.

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The model
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Bombardier in China

It is T135/136 Jinan-Beijing, I think the train is made in Qingdao (JV with Bombardier). Also Shang-Beijing also use Qingdao Bombardier.
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The LCD on the train
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Pretty empty
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The door between coaches
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The door
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The table
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The lights, adjustable heads
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The toilet
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The seats
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A better seat. The button can adjust the seat height
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Traveling on Chinastar from Shenyang to Qinghuangdao

Chinastar (中华之星）
“中华之星”高速列车是为京秦沈快速客运通道研制的主型列车，由铁道部组织全国机车车辆制造工厂、科研院所、高等院校联合攻关共同研制，主机厂包括株洲电力机车厂、大同机车车辆厂、长春客车厂和四方机车车辆厂。该车采用了交直交传动技术、计算机网络控制技术等众多国际先进技术，体现了我国机车车辆制造技术的最高水平。
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“中华之星”高速列车是为京秦沈快速客运通道研制的主型列车，由铁道部组织全国机车车辆制造工厂、科研院所、高等院校联合攻关共同研制，主机厂包括株洲电力机车厂、大同机车车辆厂、长春客车厂和四方机车车辆厂。该车采用了交直交传动技术、计算机网络控制技术等众多国际先进技术，体现了我国机车车辆制造技术的最高水平。
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中华之星”目前有两辆机车，其中DJJ2-0001由南车集团株州电力机车厂生产，ADJJ2-0001B由北车集团大同机车厂生产。两车使用同一图纸，因而基本上是完全一样的，只是由于各厂工艺条件不同，局部有细微差别。拖车分别由四方和长客生产。

“中华之星”动车组的车头外形是根据空气动力原理设计，以减少空气阻力。我国“八五”以来，对高速列车动力学问题进行了大量的理论和实验研究，包括风动实验、弹射实验、线路实验等，“中华之星”就是这些研究成果的具体体现。

主要技术参数如下：
1 列车型式
列车采用交直交电力牵引，由分别编组在头部和尾部的两个动力车以前拉后推的方式推挽运行。
2 列车组成
列车由2辆动力车和9辆拖车组成，中间拖车包括2辆一等座车，6辆二等座车，1辆酒吧车。
3 最高运营速度 270km/h
最高试验速度 > 300km/h
4 轮周牵引功率 9600kW
5 电制动功率 8800kW
6 列车定员 ≥ 700人
7 列车总重 约 678 t
8 列车总长 约 280 m
9 供电制式 单相工频交流，额定电压为25kV
The highest speed: 270km/h

Close view
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车厢内部，每个座位前都有闭路电视
Now everyone has a LCD screen
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密接钩
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车厢走行部
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A bar, wow
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class A , by CCC (Changchun Car Company)

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class B, by Qingdao Sifang works
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北京神州号属于动力集中式双层内燃动车组，分双层空调硬座车和双层空调软座车两个车种。总体列车由动车+10辆双层拖车+动车组成。子弹头列车的车头采用了目前世界上较先进的分布式计算机控制系统，可以避免因一个地方发生故障而导致“全身瘫痪”。自动监控系统可显示列车运行的重要参数，驾驶员一目了然。列车装用的新型准高速转向架确保安全，空气弹簧减震使列车平稳，即使在高速运行中发生意外紧急刹车，列车仍旧平稳如常，还有全球卫星定位系统等其他现代化设施。

“神州号”于2000年10月18日投入运营，承担北京和天津之间的城际特快客运业务。

　　富有人情味座椅根据人体特点设计

　　车内从布局到衣帽钩这样的细微之处都体现出为旅客着想的设计思路。走进车厢，第一感觉就是车内环境看着非常舒服。乳白色的棚顶一改传统的平板式，设计成了两侧低垂，中间波浪式凹进的格局，而光源就藏在垂下的两侧棚檐内，使光线显得非常柔和。座位上方的座位灯记者是第一次在火车上看到的。往座位上一坐，立即发现子弹头的座位与其他列车不同，坐垫和靠背都有一个顺势而下的梯形洼处，别小看这一点，坐上去确实感觉舒服很多。听说这是仿造人体特点设计的。

　　高度自动化“一指禅”是门钥匙

　　列车启动之后，好几个人去开车厢过道门，可时怎么也拉不开，而列车员过去像变戏法一样，把手在门上一指，门就自动打开了。原来子弹头采用了感应式车门，车门在列车行驶时速低于5公里的时候会自动打开。行驶过程中只要把手靠近门上的感应区，门就会自动打开。

空调是微机控制的，可以把车内温度自动调控在设定的温度，不会出现冷热波动现象。此外，车内厕所安装了真空集便器，解决了沿路洒的历史问题。

　　配套需跟上列车有劲使不出

　　从11时列车启动到12时15分抵达终点，列车行驶了75分钟。从车内显示屏上记者看到，列车最高时速达到过137.5公里，与设计的180公里时速有一定差距。由于目前京津间的信号系统、轨道系统还与快速列车不配套，因而把子弹头目前的合理时速限制在140公里以内。

　　车速慢，主要是因为我们还采用直流电动力技术，而国外采用的交流电动力技术在高速性能上更好；同时我们的列车车轮等部件以及轨道设计还不能承受过高速度带来的冲击力；还有一点就是我们还没有专门的客运铁路。

主要技术参数

编组方式 动车+10辆双层拖车+动车
轨距 1435mm
适用站台高度 300mm～1100mm
运营速度 200km/h
平稳性能指标 W≤2.5
车体长度 25500mm
车体宽度 3104mm
车辆高度 4600mm
车钩中心线距轨面高度（空车时） 880 mm
转向架 CW-200型
制动装置 F8电控制动机
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2,000 mile China-Europe rail link

Nick Paton Walsh in Moscow
Saturday March 13, 2004
The Guardian

For years it has trundled a slow and solitary path across the vast expanses of the Siberian tundra. But now the Trans-Siberian railway will face its first direct competitor as the overland route from China to Europe when a new railway is built to straddle the steppes of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan announced yesterday that it would complete within four years a 2,000 mile track from China on its eastern border to Europe.

It will cost an estimated $3.5bn (nearly £2bn) and be able to transport 40bn tonnes of goods a year. After crossing Kazakhstan, itself the size of western Europe, the railway would either cut south through Iran or cross through Russia, the fastest route to mainland Europe.

Kanat Zhangaskin, the vice-president of the Kazakhstan National Railway Company, said while in Hong Kong looking for investors for the project, that "after completion of the railway, a container from Hong Kong and other places in China could be directly transported to Europe", according to the Xinhua news agency.

The plan, which would create one of the most modern and longest railway lines in the world, will offer an unbroken journey through expanses of steppe dominated over the centuries by Genghis Khan, the Russian tsarist armies, and the Soviet Union.

A parallel project will run from Bangladesh through the Indian subcontinent, and on to Iran. A tunnel through the Turkish Bosporus Straits would complete the journey to mainland Europe without the new links having to cross into Russian territory.

At present, most goods sent from China to Europe go by sea, as road and rail routes pass through the bureaucratic Russian customs regime.

Mr Zhangaskin said the railway would greatly increase China's ability to ferry goods to the outside world. Cargo sent between China, Iran and Turkey would reach $2bn a year, and the total between Asian and European countries would be $7bn as a result of the railway.

At present, the Trans-Siberian railway takes European rail traffic from Moscow across Russia's 11 timezones.

It passes through the Volga territory of Yaroslavl, through the Ural mountain town of Ekaterinburg, to Irkutsk, and then on to Vladivostok on the Pacific coast.

However, many travellers and goods opt for the second, Trans-Manchurian route, which leaves the Trans-Siberian's route at Tarskaya, a few hundred miles east of Lake Baikal, and then heads south-east into China, bound for Beijing.

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Railway transport speeds up

PLA Daily 2004-04-09





　　BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Some passenger trains in China will be able to run at speeds surpassing 160 km per hour beginning April 18 along a combined length of 7,700 km, and the top speed can be 200 km per hour in some sections, Vice-Minister of Railways Hu Yadong said Thursday.


　　Hu said at a press conference on the country's large-scale railway acceleration that the average speed of passenger trains will reach 65.7 km per hour, up 4.3 km per hour. Freight trains will also run faster.


　　Among the passenger trains, the speed of direct express trains will reach 119.2 km per hour and that of express trains will reach92.8 km per hour on the average, he said.


　　This will be the fifth time for China to accelerate its trains, Hu said.

Zhuzhou exports loco to Uzbekistan

Rollout of AC Drive Electric Locomotive Exported to Uzbekistan

news TIME：9/12/2003/17:27

The rollout ceremony of AC drive multi-purpose electric locomotive for Uzbekistan which represents international
advanced technology integration level and fills up the vacancy of Chinese railway electric locomotive series,
was held yesterday at Test Station of ZELW. Deputy Governor of Hunan Provincial Government---Mr. Zheng Maoqing,
Board Chairman of Uzbekistan National Railways, Mr. Romatov and Secretary of Zhuzhou Municipal CPC Committee,
Mr. Xiao Yayu cut the ribbons for rollout of the locomotive.

On April 26, 2002, ZELW participated in the international tender from Uzbekistan National Railways. By first class
performance and price advantages, ZELW defected many international famous railway transportation equipment
companies, such as Germany Siemens, Canada Bombardier, France Alstom and Czech Skoda and so on, and was awarded
the supply contract of 12 AC drive multi-purpose electric locomotives at total value 41.8 million dollars.

This locomotive is of 6000 kilowatt continuous power and 120 km/h design speed. In order to ensure the demand
from customer, ZELW actively introduces, digests and absorbs international advanced railway transportation
equipment technology; integrates the advanced technology from international famous companies in railway
transportation equipment field----advanced network control, GTO water-cooling converter, CIS electro-pneumatic
brake from Germany Siemens; integrates the excellent design ideal from international famous image design
company---Italy Giugiaro company;
integrates the advanced radio communication, signal and security supervision system technology from Russia.
ZELW applies 3B0 bogie drive technology on AC drive electric locomotive for the first time, which greatly
improves the safety performance when locomotive negotiating small-radius curve at high speed.

Deputy Secretary of Zhuzhou Municipal CPC Committee & Acting Mayor of Zhuzhou Municipal Government---Mr. Yan Shisheng, Deputy Mayor of Zhuzhou Municipal Government---Mr. Zhai Dupei and so on also presented the
rollout ceremony.

Zhuzhou exports to Dutch

ZELW signed contract of supplying Dutch National Railways with 35 traction motors. In February 2003, expert delegation from Dutch Pontifex International B.V. visited ZELW. On May 15, ZELW signed the purchases and sales contract of 35 traction motors with its representative, Shanghai Baogang International Economic Trade Co., Ltd.

Is this train from Germany? The color scheme is like the German flag

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What train is this?

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why don't they build the fence?I suppose the suicide rate is not high enough.

Is this train from Germany? The color scheme is like the German flag

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No, they are all designed and manufactured by China. Only Shanghai's Maglev is from Germany.

What train is this?

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It is "Shenzhou" double deck express train that has been running between Tianjin and Beijing since 2000. The bullet head with GPS has distrubuted computer control system. Shenzhou refers to China.

great stuff. Love them all :up:

How fast can the Shenzhou go up to?

How fast can the Shenzhou go up to?

The max design velocity is 200 km/h, but the train is regularly running at the speed of 140 km/h. It is due to no special railway available for passenger transportation only now. In China , most railways are used for the purpose of both cargo and passenger transportation. Also the trainwheel components and tracks can't bear impinging forces during high speed moving of trains.

The first Chinese tilt train was made. The engine was made in Dalian, and the coach was made in Tangshan.
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新华网大连5月8日电（记者蔡拥军）我国自主设计研制的首台摆式列车牵引动力车8日在大连机车车辆厂问世，近日将与唐山机车车辆厂制造的摆式车厢组成摆式列车，从而填补了我国这一产品领域的空白。

　　摆式列车是目前国外投入商业运营不久的新产品，其最大优点是可以大幅度提高列车在弯道通过速度，实现全程提速。摆式列车与现有普通列车的最大区别在于，当列车进入弯道运行时，根据列车速度、弯道半径和轮轨作用力大小等情况，由动力车上的微机网络系统向列车发出信号，给出车辆应倾摆多少、什么时间开始倾摆等指令，并通过安装在车辆上的特殊装置向内侧倾斜，抵消离心力的作用，使列车可以较快速度通过弯道，有效提高列车的全线运行速度，同时，乘客也会由于列车在弯道上的自然适度倾斜而感到舒适。

　　目前我国铁路列车提速是在现有线路上进行的，由于受弯道限制，火车无论在直线跑多快，通过弯道时都需减速，限速运行，影响全程速度，因而急需这种能快速通过弯道的新车型。

　　大连机车车辆厂摆式列车牵引动力车设计方案2002年3月通过评审，设计最高时速为160公里，车头为流线型，车上装有ＷＴＢ机车网络系统，实现对全列车的全面监控。动力车的走行部分采用先进的准高速径向转向架，其突出特点是，在机车通过半径较小的弯道时，通过其关键技术部位特殊装置的动作，使车轴产生一定的转角，使其随着弯道的曲线改变轴距，有效地减少机车车轮与钢轨间的磨擦，降低轮缘磨耗，其磨耗量仅为普通转向架的十分之一左右，可以延长机车车轮和钢轨的使用寿命，同时有效地提高了弯道通过能力，速度至少可以提高30％。
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Nanjing Puzhen also made her own 内燃摆式train

新华社南京5月29日电：由南京浦镇车辆厂研制的内燃摆式列车5月27日竣工下线。

　　摆式列车是当今国外广泛采用的一种先进技术。它与一般客车的不同之处是，列车在经过弯道时，车体能够根据离心力大小自动实现车体的倾摆控制，既能以较高速度通过弯道，又能有效保证列车运行的平稳性。

　　南京浦镇车辆厂于1998年初开始进行摆式列车的研制。2001年9月研制成功摆式列车使用的新型转向架，这种转向架采用国际先进技术，可减少列车通过曲线时的横向作用力。与此同时，通过轻量化设计，减轻了车辆自重，降低了轮轨作用力。

　　新研制成功的摆式列车，可以在弯道多、坡道多的地区提高列车的运行速度，其运行速度可以提高20％至30％。摆式列车的外观采用鼓型设计，新颖美观；车辆内部设计体现了航空化、宾馆化，并增设了音响系统、温控装置、火警监测装置和酒吧间，旅行舒适度大为提高。

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Inside the car
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The door
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The kitchen
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The 摆式列车 will be running from Guangzhou to Maoming

国内首列摆式列车将驶进三茂线
2003年03月12日　金羊网 记者　左志红
　　中国广州网讯　记者昨天(3.11)从三茂铁路获悉，由我国自主设计研发的国内第一列摆式列车将于今年下半年在粤西三茂铁路线上试运行，该列车的投入使用，将使广州至茂名东的列车运行时间至少缩短两个小时。

　　据介绍，该摆式列车的运行区间为广州至茂名东，设计时速为160公里，全程运行时间将由目前的5个多小时缩短为3小时20分左右，若开足马力全程仅需两个半小时，可缩短3个小时。

　　这种摆式列车的全称是“动力分散内燃液传摆式列车”，由唐山机车车辆厂制造，采用了部分进口部件。列车每节车厢造价超过1000万元。车厢内装饰豪华，全部为高靠背座椅，视距前方设有可收放小电视屏幕，犹如航班客机。每节车厢定员80人。
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The World's longest Railway tunnels

Fenghuoshan Tunnel - The World's highest tunnel
LHASA, October 21 (Xinhuanet) - The construction of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has achieved yet another important progress as the Fenghuoshan Tunnel has just been drilled through to form the world's highest railway tunnel. The Fenghuoshan, or Wind-Fire-Mountain in English, tunnel is situated at an altitude of 4,905 meters as the plane of rail tracks are concerned. The tunnel measures 1,338 meters and goes through perma-frost and ice layers of the mountain that is located at the border of the so-called no-man's land in between Tibet and Qinghai.
Though the construction had to be done in tough weather conditions, railway builders had turned their job into a miracle when they completed the drilling of the tunnel in a year to the day. The construction started on October 18 last year.
Due to the extreme lack of oxygen inside the drilling site, oxygen generation machines had to be installed inside the tunnel so as to provide builders with enough oxygen to keep the drilling process as scheduled.

The double deck train in China
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Train from Kunming to Shilin.
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Nice SS7C, shot at Shangfan
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SS3, also in Shangfan
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---The mileage of China's railways in operation had topped 70,000 km by the end of 2001, ranking third in the world.

The mileage of China's railways in operation now ranks third in the world, and the mileage of both double-tracked and electrified railways comes first in Asia, said Fu Zhihuan, minister of railways, at a recent press conference sponsored by the State Council Information Office.

According to Fu, average annual investment in China's railway construction between 1998-2001 exceeded 54 billion yuan. The four years witnessed the largest amount of investment in railway construction and the greatest number of newly started and completed projects since the founding of New China in 1949. During the four years, 39 large and medium-sized projects began construction, 38 projects were completed and put into operation, 4,933 km of new railway lines were laid, 4,030 km of railways in operation were added, 4,103 km of double-tracked railways were put into operation, and 4,848 km of railways were electrified. By the end of 2001, the total mileage of railways in operation had exceeded 70,000 km, including 23,000 km of double-tracked lines and 17,000 km of electrified railways. The rate of double-tracked and electrified railways increased to 38.3 percent and 28.6 percent respectively. The five-year construction objectives were thus fulfilled ahead of schedule.

In addition, the railway sector considerably increased the speed of trains four times in 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2001. To date, a fast-speed railway network composed of four vertical lines and two horizontal lines has taken shape, with the 13,000 km of fast-speed lines covering most regions and major cities throughout the country. Compared with the time before the speed was raised in 1997, the average speed of passenger trains increased by 25 percent. The highest speed of express trains increased from 120 km per hour to 140-200 km per hour. As a result, passenger trains operating on a distance between 1,200-1,500 km can all depart in the evening and arrive the next morning, those operating on a distance between 2,000-2,500 km can conclude their journey within 24 hours and those operating on a distance within 500 km can all depart in the morning and return in the evening of the same day. This has fundamentally reversed the prolonged situation in which the trains ran at a low speed and failed to meet the market demand.

The minister said that in 2001 the turnover volume of China's 70,000 km of railways reached 1,934 billion tons/km, which is only second to that of the United States whose 270,000 km of railways yielded 2,150 billion tons/km in turnover volume. This indicates that China is leading the world in railway transportation efficiency.

The successful implementation of the commer-cialized operation strategy has promoted a considerable increase in passenger and cargo transportation volumes. While the passenger transportation volume has kept going up, the cargo transportation volume has constantly broken historical records, which has raised the railway sector's transportation revenue continuously. In 2001, China's railways carried 1.02 billion passengers and yielded
476.7 billion passengers/km in passenger turnover volume, showing separate increases of 11 percent and 31 percent on 1997. The year also saw the transportation of 1.79 billion tons of goods and the completion of 1,425 billion tons/km in cargo turnover volume, up 10 percent and 9 percent respectively on 1997. At present, the railway sector's passenger and cargo turnover volumes account for 36.3 percent and 54.6 percent of the national total respectively. In 2001 China's railway cargo transportation, cargo turnover volume, passenger transportation and passenger turnover volume ranked first, second, fourth and first respectively in the world. The railway transportation revenue totaled 134.6 billion yuan, a rise of 50.4 billion yuan, or 59.9 percent, on 1997. After reversing five-year losses a year ahead of schedule in 1999, the railway sector consolidated and expanded the results of turning from losses to profits through improved performance in 2000 and 2001.

(Beijing Time) Thursday, November 07, 2002
China Tops World in Tunnel Development
China ranks first in the world both in the number of tunnels and the speed of development, Hu Xijie, vice-minister of communications, said Wednesday.

China ranks first in the world both in the number of tunnels and the speed of development, Hu Xijie, vice-minister of communications, said Wednesday.

Hu said at the International Seminar on Tunnel and Road Technology, which opened Wednesday, China will pay more attention to road construction in the vast western region as it is carrying out the strategy to boost development in the west.

"The main battlefield for road construction will gradually move to the west, which means road tunnel construction will be ushered into a new development phase because of the special terrain in that part of the country," Hu said, adding that a large amount of extra-long tunnels will be constructed.

By 2010, more than 155 kilometers of road tunnels will have been built in China. The 18.4-kilometer-long Zhongnan Mountain tunnel, which will pass through the Qinling Mountain range, will be the second longest in the world and the first in Asia. Many other mountain tunnels each with a length of 4-8 kilometers will also be constructed.

In 1979, China had only 374 road tunnels, with a total length of only 52 kilometers. By the end of 2001, that number had reached 1,782, in a total length of more than 700 kilometers, making China the country with the most tunnel and underground projects, the most complicated engineering and the fastest tunnel development in the world.

So far, China has 1.72 million kilometers of roads, including 200,000 kilometers of expressways. China ranks the world's second in expressway mileage, and the length will reach 230,000 kilometers by the end of this year.

The seminar is the first ever large-scale technical seminar jointly hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Communications and the World Road Association. Some 700 communications officials and world renowned road experts from more than 20 countries and regions are present at the three-day seminar.

Founded in 1909, the association is a non-governmental and non-profit organization dealing with road infrastructure planning, design, construction, maintenance and operation.

Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, December 08, 2003
WB-funded railway line contributes to energy reallocation
China's first railway line built with World Bank loans in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region has greatly contributed to coal transfer from western China to the developed east, which demands a huge energy supply.


China's first railway line built with World Bank loans in Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region has greatly contributed to coal transfer from western China to the developed east, which demands a huge energy supply.

The longest railway in China built with foreign loans, which cost 125 million yuan (US$15 million), runs through areas rich in resources of coal, petroleum and natural gas.

Further extension of the line, which went into operation eight years ago, has shored up its traffic handling capacity from the former 7 million tons to the current more than 12 million tons a year.

Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, December 08, 2003
Railway ministry sheds 42 subordinate enterprises
China's Ministry of Railways has recently transferred 42 enterprises directly under its administration to two state-owned enterprises, according to sources with the ministry.


China's Ministry of Railways has recently transferred 42 enterprises directly under its administration to two state-owned enterprises, according to sources with the ministry.

The 42 enterprises, including two survey and design institutes,were given to the China Railway Engineering Corporation and China Railway Construction Corporation free of charge.

The transfer is done in line with the policy to separate the functions of the government from those of enterprises so that the ministry can better perform its duty, said a ministry official.

"Tiansuo" DJ3 electric locomotive, made in Datong. under testing in Beijing.

DJ3“天梭号”，这是大同机车厂生产的（组装）交流传动客运电力机车。
目前还在北京环铁试验段进行试验任务，没有编号，也没有配属。
摄于北京环形铁道试验段。注意它的轮对上有制动踏面，与众不同！
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DJ1,imported 3 sets from Siemens, other 17 sets now made in Zhuzhou.

DJ1货运交流传动电力机车，共20组，前3组为西门子原装，以后的为株洲电力机车厂制造（组装）。
担负大秦线120列万吨运煤大列的牵引任务，瞬时功率可达8100KW。
重联使用，配属大同铁路分局湖东机务段。摄于北京昌平下庄站。
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Guangzhou-Hongkong express train through Guangzhou
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An expressway and a railway meets in the wild west of China
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Nanning-Kunming railway
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Xining-Germu railway in Qinghai province
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A train in the mountains of western China
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Transrapid Shanghai sets new world record with 501 km/h (311 mph)

A world record for commercial Maglev systems was set up on November 12, 2003 in the framework of the commissioning phase of the Shanghai Transrapid as one five-section vehicle achieved the top speed of 501 km/h (311 mph) on the 30 km track between Long Yang Station and Pudong International Airport. Another vehicle passed at 430 km/h on the adjacent track.

The Transrapid in Shanghai , with a design speed of over 500 km/h (310 mph) and a regular service speed of 430 km/h (267 mph), is the fastest railway system in commercial operation in the world.


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Maglev was imported from Germany.

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不得不说，铁路沿线是中国最差的地方，难看的不能再难看了

China should built their own highspeed rail instead of buying it from the French or the Japanese for the proposed Beijing-Shanghai line. They might not be able to match their speeds yet, but China clearly demonstrated the abilities to make good trains, I mean they even put a man into space surely they can develop highspeed trains in the very near future.

China should built their own highspeed rail instead of buying it from the French or the Japanese for the proposed Beijing-Shanghai line. They might not be able to match their speeds yet, but China clearly demonstrated the abilities to make good trains, I mean they even put a man into space surely they can develop highspeed trains in the very near future.

They need to learn from others first right?Just like how TGV transfered their technology know how to South Korea,China still has to learn from others and pick up from there.

tilt train or tilting train.

tilt train or tilting train.

Thank you, postmodern. :D :hug:

新报讯【记者郭子斌】昨天从天津铁路分局了解到，为配合明年4月的全国铁路线第五次提速，天津铁路分局正在对管内6处提速路区设施进行改造、调整部分区间铁轨间距，改造后的部分路段最高设计时速可达200公里。另外在明年，天津到上海的k33/34次将计划调整为特快列车，并使用航空化的“庞巴迪”新型高档旅客列车车底。

　　“航空化”客车明年上路


　　为配合明年全国铁路提速，天津铁路分局正将天津往返上海的k33/34次旅客列车调整为特快列车，按照要求将其更换为单排航空软座车厢的“庞巴迪”新型列车，按照其设计时速，今后乘坐该车到上海只需10到12小时。

　　据了解，法国与我国青岛合作生产的“庞巴迪”新型全软座高档客车设计时速为160公里，最高可达200公里，采用全封闭结构，天花板和地板采用隔音材料，大大降低了车辆在运行中的噪音。其软座车厢内全部座位均为单向航空椅，每个座位背后设置折叠桌，可随时拉出，座椅下设脚踏板。车厢内还设有可前后移动的洗漱间、洗手间及航空式行李架等设施，同时还首次在车厢内安装了通讯呼叫装置。

　　最高时速可达200公里

　　据了解，明年铁路提速的线路主要有京广、京沪、京九、京哈、陇海和浙赣线。在天津铁路分局管内主要提速区段有6处：京山与京沪铁路的联络线、南仓东疏解工程，改造完成后允许将时速由45公里提高到80公里；杨柳青至周李庄段，允许将时速由120公里提高为130公里；周李庄至静海段，允许将时速由120公里提高为140公里；静海至青县段，允许将时速由140公里提高为200公里；青县至捷地段，允许时速达到140公里；捷地至长庄段，允许时速将由140公里提高为200公里。

　　按照设计时速，明年提速后，从天津西到上海的客车可平均节省时间在2小时以上。本市铁路部门表示，对于具体的提速车次、新的运行时刻及单程运行节省多少时间，要等明年3月国家铁道部统一调整后才能得知。

　　部分线路调整间距

　　天津铁路部门还将调整京山、京沪联络线列车行驶速度。届时，南仓至天津西以及津浦线0公里至天津西路段将实现允许速度为80公里/小时的列车通行，而杨柳青至周李庄段列车时速也将由120公里提至130公里。

　　为保证提速后的行车安全，铁路部门将对部分线路的间距进行相应调整：时速在200公里的区段两条铁路线间距调整为4.4米；时速在160公里的区段两条铁路线的间距调整为4.2米；非改造区段两条铁路线的间距将保持原间距。另外，天津铁路部门还采取消除线路设备病害、消灭提速区段平交道口、调整线路曲线、线路两侧全部安装隔离栅栏封闭等措施，确保明年4月全国铁路提速后列车的通行安全。

I think Type 25G coaches are the standard for the express trains (K) China now, And maybe even used as some Puke (ordinary train). Seems much better than old green skin type22. A/C is standard and capable of running 150km plus for type 25G coaches. The T-series (Tekuai, or extra express) trains are gradually using better coaches such as Bombadier coach or MUT sets.

Here is K121/4, K123/2 Wuchang(Wuhan) -Shanghai express
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A coach attendant girl at the door. notice the door is different from old one. And this is a hard-bed (hard-sleeper?) coach.
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The hot water dispenser
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The aisle of hard-sleeper coach, quite different feom old one
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The info center, you can check the inside temp
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The hard-seat coach, pretty empty
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The dining coach
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New Dawning (Xin Shu Guang) NZJ-1 Nanjing-Shang double deck MUT
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Train staffs in service
Chinese train attendance girls (Lie Che Yuan 列车员).
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Shenyang North- Dalian T453 Extra express
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The double deck coach
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The passenger coaches of Chinese railway

Copied from site:
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It is a nice introduction in English

Time was when everyone's impression of Chinese railway coaches was the ubiquitous green YZ22. These days, such coaches, although still common in some areas, are becoming almost an endangered species, as 25 series stock, in a kaleidoscope of colours, floods out of the rolling stock factories at Changchun, Puzhen, Sifang and Tangshan.



Until comparatively recently, soft seat coaches were uncommon, as most journeys were lengthy and soft class passengers were expected to prefer a bed. With the development of more and more inter-city services, RZs are more popular, although the YZ still dominates, even on routes between the major city pairs.



The 21 series was the first standard adopted by the PRC, and was produced between 1953 and 1961. As can be seen, it presents a rather old fashioned appearance, and had bogies with horn guides and prominent equalising beams. Around 3,000 were produced. The 22 series was first introduced in 1956 and produced right up until 1994, a total of 27,000 coaches being built. Within the 22 series, there are also 22A and 22B sub-designations. The first 22 series coach was numbered 24761 apparently (any news of sightings of this historical vehicle welcome). The current 25 series first made its appearance back in 1966, but it is only in the last 10 years that they have have been built in quantity. Up to the end of 1998, 11,000 had been produced. There have been a number of sub-classes: 25A, 25B, 25G, 25K, 25Z.



Other than these principal series, there are a number of other less common series: 18, 18A, 19, 19A, 23, 24 and 31. This last was a commuter design and featured longitudinal bench seating, apparently capable of packing in up to 228 people!


The current 25 series coaches are capable of up to 160km/h. Air conditioning is now standard. The use of generator cars will be noted, most locomotives not being designed to cope with the hotel load of the train.

I like the militaristic uniforms in the trains, feel very secure.

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Nearly two centuries after railways were invented, this symbol of modern civilization has finally made its way into Tibet, the "roof of the world."

At about 11:30 am Tuesday, two 25-metre-long rails were laid at the Amdo Station, some 440 kilometres from Lhasa, at the foot of the Tanggula mountain range in Amdo County of Tibet.

Sprawling on the range known as "insurmountable even by eagles" by locals and regarded as the cradle of the Yangtze and Lancang rivers, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway will boast a maximum altitude of 5,070 meters. That will make it railway at the highest elevation in the world.

With an investment of 26.21 billion yuan (US$3.16 billion), China began the construction project in 2001 to connect Golmud City of Qinghai Province and Lhasa, capital of Tibet. It is hoped it can serve as a bridge for the autonomous region -- isolated by its high altitude and severe natural environment -- with the rest of the country.

The Chinese government also hopes the project will put Tibet's social and economic development on track and help spurt less-developed western regions of the nation.

The 1,142-kilometre link is scheduled to be completed in 2007.

Days before the track-laying ceremony, residents in Amdo County had hung national flags on their tents and houses, a practice for major festivals.

More than 200 Tibetan herds arrived from more than 100 kilometres away, some of them riding horses, to witness the ceremonial occasion.

When the first rails were laid, people let out hurrahs in Tibetan, Han and other ethnic languages.

Vice-Premier Huang Ju sent a congratulatory message on behalf of the Chinese central authorities, and encouraged construction workers to build a world-class railway on "the roof of the world."

"The railway will benefit the people in Tibet and Qinghai," said Dazhag Danzim Gele, the Fourth Living Buddha with Dazhag Temple in Tibet. "It will also make the pilgrimage to Lhasa more convenient."

Lhasa is a holy place for Tibetan Buddhists.

"This is the happiest event for me," said 63-year-old Surkang, a Tibetan herdsman who tied a hada to the first rail. The hada is a white silk scarf regarded as a symbol of respect and a blessing by Tibetans. He is expecting to travel by train instead of on horseback.
Tibet covers an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometres or about one eighth of Chinese territory. It is the only provincial area in the country without an inch of railway.

About 90 percent of the 2.7 million Tibetan people live on farming or raising livestock. Poor traffic conditions have been one of the major obstacles for Tibet's modernization of Tibet.

People now travel to Tibet mainly by air or automobiles. Last year, more than 928,000 tourists visited Tibet.

(Xinhua News Agency June 23, 2004)

Digital Tech to Be Used for Future Tibetan Railway
China is considering building a set of digital integration systems to better provide a scientific basis for the design, construction and maintenance of its first railroad on the Tibet Plateau in the western part of the country.



The package embraces a digital roadbed system and a numerical simulation platform, according to the research institute of the environment and engineering of frigid and arid zones under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).



A digitized simulation system for frozen-earth-based roadbeds, the digital roadbed system, will help estimate the operational state of a certain roadbeds and forecast what sort of problems might occur on it provided the real geological and boundary conditions and engineering measures are available for the roadbed.



The system will be used to verify and analyze whether the engineering and structure designs are reasonable for the Qinghai-Tibet railway that is being built and to make revisions to the designs, said Li Xin, head of the system research team and a CAS researcher.



The system is also of significance to any road construction projects in frigid zones in the future, Li Xin added.



The digital simulation platform is a geological information system for the Qinghai-Tibet railway, to be used for information inquiry, space analysis, engineering design aid and data bank service relevant to the rail project.



The Qinghai-Tibet railroad is designed to connect Xining, capital city of northwest China's Qinghai Province, with Lhasa, capital of west Tibet Autonomous Region, with a total length of 1,956 kilometers.



The section between Xining and Golmud, Qinghai, opened to traffic in 1984, and that between Golmud to Lhasa, is under construction with an estimated investment of 26 billion yuan (US$3.13billion). The second part is scheduled for completion in 2007, with all auxiliary facilities installed.



Being built on the Tibetan Plateau, which is called the roof of the world, the railroad is environmentally responsive, CAS researchers said.



But the researchers believe that construction of the railroad will help change both the economic and social landscapes in a region with harsh natural conditions.

Vice Premier Outlines Railway Targets for 2003

Chinese Vice Premier Wu Bangguo has urged China's railway sector staff to bring a pioneering spirit to their jobs and work hard in all respects in 2003.

Priority would be placed on easing transport pressure on busy lines, construction of railways in western China, railway sector reforms and workplace safety, said Wu, who is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.


He made the remarks in Beijing Sunday after hearing reports by Ministry of Railways officials and highly praised the achievements in railway construction in recent years.


Outlining the blueprint, Wu said the railway sector's technical equipment by 2020 should equal or surpass that of developed countries. The transport capacity, quality and services of the railway industry should keep abreast with the requirements of building a comparatively prosperous society in an all-round way.


He listed reforms, construction of key projects such as the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, improvement of transport efficiency, upgrading of railway technology and boosting Party building as major tasks for the railway industry in 2003.


(Xinhua News Agency December 30, 2002)

The Yantai-Dalian Railway Ferry Project across the Bohai Bay started construction in the coastal city over the weekend.

The Yantai section of the project includes the 12-kilometre railway route and a railway ferry dock. Early building work will involve a total of 56 hectares of land and 50 hectares of sea bed.

Zhongtie Bohai Railway Ferry Co is in charge of the construction and management of the project. It will draw on funds from the Ministry of Railway, Shandong Province in East China, Dalian City of Liaoning Province in Northeast China and China Railway Civil Engineering Co, according to sources with the Yantai Transportation Committee.

Total investment in the project is 2.35 billion yuan (US$284 million). The railway is expected to start operation in June 2006.

The project is the latest in a series of new cross-sea transport routes in China. Yuehai Railway Ferry launched its service in January, linking South China's Guangdong and Hainan provinces.

The Yantai-Dalian line will start from Yangtouwa in Lushun District in Dalian and end in Situdi in Yantai.

The line connects the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula and the northern end of the Jiaodong Peninsula across the Bohai Bay, covering 79.4 nautical miles (147 kilometres) as the crow flies.

Experts say the ferry route will become a key link between Northeast China and the booming Yangtze River delta region in the south.

It is about 400 to 1,000 kilometres shorter than the existing railway route, which makes a circuitous loop through Beijing or Tianjin.

(China Daily November 18, 2003)

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"Yuehaitie No.1", China's first transoceanic train ferryboat, arrived in the Qiongzhou Straits on Sunday, where it will operate as a transportation link between railways in Guangdong and Hainan provinces.

The ferryboat left the Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai on Thursday, traversing the Taiwan Straits en route to its destination.


The country's first transoceanic train ferry is scheduled to commence operation on December 28, according to official sources.


The ferryboat, which was built at a cost of 210 million yuan (US$25 million), was funded by the Yuehai Railway Co., Ltd., designed by the No.708 Ship-building Industry Institute of China, and built by the Jiangnan Shipyard.


The ferryboat, boasting a capacity of 12,400 tons and a minimal speed of 15 nautical miles per hour, is 165.4 meters in length and 22.6 meters in width.


It is capable of carrying either 4,200 tons of locomotives and cars, 40 cargo carriers or 18 passenger compartments and 1,360 passengers.

SS7B

韶山7B型电力机车为铁道部重点科技项目。它是1996年设计完成，1997年试制成功的一种新型的重载货运电力机车。

　　韶山7B型电力机车是韶山7型电力机车系列化产品之一，也是我国铁路“重载提速”政策重点实施步骤。其走行部、传动系统等，都是引进、消化、吸收国外交-直机车的先进、成熟技术达到国内先进水平，并接近了世界水平。
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DJ, made by Zhuzhou in 2000.The max speed is 260km/h

2000年6月25日，株洲电力机车车辆厂生产出了编号为DJ0001和DJ0002的两辆运营时速为220公里，最高试验时速可达260km/h的交流传动高速列车,使中国电力机车研制一步跨越20年，跻身于国际先进水平。这是株洲电力机车研究所根据国家“九五”科技攻关项目而着手研制的一种新型电力机车。这两辆机车可以称作是中国电力机车的概念车。它在吸收国外先进技术的基础上，在总体技术、高速动力转向架、控制系统等方面创造性地提出了十余种国内首创、国际先进的设计理念，实现了全部机车逻辑控制和自诊功能。实现了国内单轴功率最大，并打破了传统交直电力机车单轴1000KW的上限和机车速度受限的瓶颈等。DJ型车为铁路提速和建立快速运营网提供了最佳车型选择。经过株洲电力机车厂、机车厂研究所和铁道科学研究院、西南交通大学、湖南大学、中南大学等单位近两年的共同努力研制完成 。采用新技术的交流传动电力机车已广泛使用在世界各铁路网，为电力牵引实现高速、重载目标充当先锋，发达国家至今已不再生产交直传动机车，交流传动技术已经成为电力牵引动力的核心技术，现代化的象征。

列车车身喷有“九方”品牌标志和蓝、灰、白色块，其前后有两个准流线型的车头，接近瑞典的X2000。它长18.1米，宽3.1米，高4.6米。驾驶室铺了塑胶地板，操作室宽敞明亮从这里可以看出国产机车已向国际化发展，操作台设计得非常紧凑，操作台前没了各式仪表盘，但两块电脑屏幕占了很大面积。驾驶空间比一般车宽敞高大，电热挡风玻璃视野宽敞，两边有内藏式外视镜，500米范围内可看得一清二楚。列车安了柜式空调机和热风取暖器，风向可自动调节。车改轮式方向盘为操纵杆，使驾驶更加简便。驾驶室大大提高舒适度，司机的座椅也很特别，可根据司机不同体重设置不同的档位，设定好档位只要一落座，不论前后左右、高度、角度，肯定是司机操作时觉得最舒适的位置。

机车在平直高速线路牵引10节编组旅客列车，运营速度达 200km/h,12‰坡道仍可按140km/h运行；在既有提速线路 牵引18节编组旅客列车，平直道运营速度达160km/h,12‰ 坡道仍可按100km/h运行；还可满足京沪高速线上牵引过境旅客列车的需要。
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DJ3 "Tian-suo"

DJ3（天梭号），由北车集团大同机车厂于2002年适应铁路机车交流化的要求，自主研制开发的200km/h交流传动客运电力机车，可用于牵引200km/h高速旅客列车。机车功率4800kW，机车采用先进的交流传动技术，具有恒功范围宽，轴功率大，粘着特性好，效率和功率因数高等特点，为我国铁路跨入高速运输行列提供了保证。该机车主要特点有：

轻量化、全分裂、组合式变压器

变压器为卧式结构，车体吊装式安装，一体化的多绕组全分裂式变压器。型号为JDFP-6272/75。二次谐振电抗器、辅助变流电抗器、列车供电电抗器共油箱，共用一套冷却系统。

先进的高速转向架

该转向架为B0-B0结构，采用整体式车轮，牵引电机弹性架悬，六连杆轮对空心轴传动装置，中间低位推挽式牵引装置，基础制动采用轮盘制动，一系悬挂采用螺旋弹簧加单侧轴箱拉杆定位，二系簧采用高绕螺旋弹簧。为了保证机车具有良好的运行品质，除安装减震器外，还增设了踏面清扫器和固体轮缘润滑装置。

流线化、轻量化车体

轻量化整体承载式焊接结构；双司机室和流线化头型；有中梁底架；铝合金大顶盖；网架与衍架式相结合的侧墙结构；两根连接横梁；顶盖与侧墙、两接横梁之间采用胶条密封；车体底部架设侧导流板；牵引杆座适应转向架中间推挽式斜拉杆装置牵引方式等。 机车通风系统为车顶夹层独立通风方式，滤尘采用车顶斜面惯性过滤器。

DJ3型天梭号200km/h交流传动电力机车主要技术参数：

用 途：干线客运
轨 距：1435mm
轴 式：B0-B0
网 压：25kV，50Hz
电传动方式：交—直—交
持续功率：4800kW
额定牵引力：203kN
起动牵引力：264kN
最高运营速度（半磨耗）：200km/h
最高试验速度：≥230km/h
恒功速度范围（半磨耗）：85~200km/h
制动方式：再生制动、空气制动
电制动功率：4400kW
机车整备重量：82t
轴重：20.5t
机车外形尺寸：19440mm（长）×3104mm（宽）×1500mm（高）

此机车于2002年12月26日完成整车装配，目前正在大同厂内测试，并将拉至环铁进行高速测试。据悉，该机车可能配属秦沈。
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KTT loco, imported from ABB, Swiss, running between HK and Guangzhou
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KTT in Shenzhen
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DF7G

东风7G(DF7G)型，南车集团四方机车厂在吸取了NJ1型交流传动内燃调车机的经验后，研制和生产的全新交流传动内燃调车机。据介绍,此车是目前中国调车中功率最大的一种型号,总装机功率达到2200千瓦,超过此次参展的另一台调车机DF7C一百多千瓦。本车专门适合重载列车的编组和调车用途。

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NYJ1

type/ formation:
Mc + 4T + Mc

wheel arrangement:
B - 2

transmission:
hydraulic

engine:
Caterpillar 3508B x 2

power (kw):
1,000 x 2

max speed (km/h): 140
builder:
Sifang

where used:
Baotou - Shenmu

Harbin - Mudanjiang

Harbin - Qiqihar

Nanchang - Ganzhou

Nanchang - Jiujiang

Nanning - Beihai

Taiyuan - Yuncheng

Tongliao - Hohhot



name:
Beidahuang 北大荒 (great northern wilderness) Harbin - Qiqihar

Beiya 北亚 (North Asia) Harbin - Mudanjiang

Jinlong 晋龙 (Shanxi Dragon) Taiyuan - Yuncheng

Jinlun 金轮 (golden wheel) Nanning - Beihai

Lushan 庐山 (Lushan mountain) Nanchang -

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Beiya 北亚 (North Asia) Harbin - Mudanjiang
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Jinlong 晋龙 (Shanxi Dragon) Taiyuan - Yuncheng
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Lushan 庐山 (Lushan mountain) Nanchang - Jiujiang
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NZJ1

type/ formation:
Mc + 9T + Mc (double decker)
wheel arrangement:
A1A - A1A
transmission:
electric
engine:
12V280ZJ
power (kw):
2 x 2760
max speed (km/h): 180
builder:
Qishuyan and Puzhen
where used:
Shanghai - Nanjing

Shanghai - Hangzhou

name:
Xinshuguang 新曙光 (new dawn)
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Xinshuguang 新曙光 (new dawn), running between Nanjing and Shanghai

“二动九拖”准高速内燃动车组是铁道部立项研制的首列新型内燃动车组。拖车为双层客车。客车采用一系列新工艺、新技术：上——下封闭式楼梯；新型断面结构；电动气控塞拉门，激光感应内端门、真空集便装置等。该动车组是我国目前最大、速度最高、载客最多、技术最新的内燃动车组，1999年10月已在沪宁线上投入运营。
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NZJ2

type/ formation:
Mc + 10T + Mc
wheel arrangement:
Co - Co
transmission:
electric
engine:
16V240ZJE
max speed (km/h): 180
power (kw):
2 x 3,310
builder:
Dalian
where used:
Beijing - Tianjin

Lanzhou - Xining

name:
Shenzhou Hao 神州号 (lit. divine land i.e. China) Beijing - Tianjin

Jinlun 金轮 (golden wheel) (Lanzhou - Xining) (Mc + 6T + Mc)

NZJ2 at Fengtai on Tianjin - Beijing service, December 2000.
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NZJ2 on Tianjin service leaving Beijing station, December 2002.
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Tangshan double deck DMU

type/ formation:
Mc + T + T + Mc
wheel arrangement:
Bo - Bo
transmission:
electric AC - DC
engine:
Cummins SQT30 - G3
power (kw):
2 x 660
max speed (km/h): 120
builder:
Tangshan
where used:
?
　　双层内燃动车组作为一种现代化轨道交通工具，适用于城间、城郊短途客运，具有载客、自带动力、成组运行的功能，编组方式、载客量和运行速度为：两动208人，时速130KM；两动一拖712人，时速100KM。前后行驶无需调车，可大大增加发车密度，旅客乘坐方便快捷，舒适安全。

　　它的设计方案选用国内外成熟的技术和装备（康明斯柴油机、西门子直流调速装置和209PK型转向架等），两动两拖固定编组，有利于动车组总体可靠性的提高；采用动力分散的牵引方式，双层列车结构，有利于增加定员，减少投资和消耗，具有良好经济性。动车由司机室、动力室、客室、电器室等组成，定员104人/辆；拖车由茶炉室、卫生间、乘务室、客室等组成，定员168人/辆，全车总载量入为540余人（其它技术参数见表）。

　　双层内燃动车组的研制成功将使我国铁路客运进入一个新的时代。
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DJJ1

type/ formation:
power car + trailers (Mc + 5T + Tc)
transmission: AC drive
power (kw):
4,800
max speed (km/h): 264
builder:
Zhuzhou
where used:
Guangshen
name:
Lanjian (blue arrow) 蓝箭

DJJ1 001 at Shenzhen, Sept 2001.
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DDJ1, withdrawn

追求舒适、快捷的旅行方式是现代人由来已久的梦想。中国第一台正式进入高速领域的DDJ1型200km/h高速动车组，是我们强大机车家族的又一精心完美之作。高速、大运量、无污染、低成本的电力牵引方式，充满现代感的子弹头外形，人性化的司机驾驶环境，配以4000KW的强大动力，令旅行者享尽200km/h高速飞掠的效率与惬意。

DDJ1型高速动车组牵引功率达4000KW，转向架采用电机架承式全悬挂结构及轮对空心轴传动，构架采用高强度底合金材料。DDJ1型动车组其最高时速达200km/h，最大牵引功率达4000kw，载客量达436人，非常适合城际间高速旅客列车
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"Blue-arrow" in Guanzhou
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Blue-arrow

由蓝、灰、白三色组成，型号为“蓝箭”的流线型交流传动电动车组由一个动力车、六个拖车（其中一辆为控制拖车）组成，设计最高时速为305公里。它是广铁集团、株洲电力机车厂和长春客车厂自1998年开始策划、研制和开发，经国家计委、铁道部批准的我国第一列采用交—直—交传动新技术的电动车组，由株洲机车厂总体设计并与株洲电力机车研究所共同研制动力车、长春客车厂制造控制车和拖车、以广深线为试验和运营基地的一个科技组合。

动力车于2000年9月3日在株洲电力机车厂“出生”，9月21日在长春客车厂与拖车和控制车相对接，此后完成了环形道上的试运行，于11月初到达广深线。自11月8日开始，每天晚上利用广深线准高速铁路夜间天窗时间进行牵引性能、动力学性能、制动性能、受电弓性能及受流质量监测、动车组称重和会车压力波试验等方面数百个项目的数据检测，以确保列车运行的绝对安全。DJJ1型动力车的诞生，标志着我国交流传动电力机车制造技术已走向成熟。

“蓝箭”号于2001年1月在广深线投入运营。“蓝箭”号车内采用了航空式的装修，显得非常豪华舒适美观。车厢一端设有通过台、照明防滑控制台、一个四人商务包间及小走廊等；另一端设有带坐式便器卫生间、开敞式洗脸间、清洁用具柜、饮水机；中部为按２＋２单向排列的旅客座位，带有１个可折叠式茶几和２２０Ｖ电源插座，可以非常方便地进行商务活动。与众不同的是，“蓝箭”号还配有一个配餐室、小酒吧和残疾人卫生间。据悉，广深铁路股份有限公司还将于今年在广深线陆续投入“蓝箭”号电动车组，逐步实现广州、深圳间城际铁路公交化，每１５分钟发一趟高速列车，取消列车时刻表。



由蓝、灰、白三色组成，型号为“蓝箭”的流线型交流传动电动车组由一个动力车、六个拖车（其中一辆为控制拖车）组成，设计最高时速为305公里。它是广铁集团、株洲电力机车厂和长春客车厂自1998年开始策划、研制和开发，经国家计委、铁道部批准的我国第一列采用交—直—交传动新技术的电动车组，由株洲机车厂总体设计并与株洲电力机车研究所共同研制动力车、长春客车厂制造控制车和拖车、以广深线为试验和运营基地的一个科技组合。


蓝箭司机台

动力车于2000年9月3日在株洲电力机车厂“出生”，9月21日在长春客车厂与拖车和控制车相对接，此后完成了环形道上的试运行，于11月初到达广深线。自11月8日开始，每天晚上利用广深线准高速铁路夜间天窗时间进行牵引性能、动力学性能、制动性能、受电弓性能及受流质量监测、动车组称重和会车压力波试验等方面数百个项目的数据检测，以确保列车运行的绝对安全。DJJ1型动力车的诞生，标志着我国交流传动电力机车制造技术已走向成熟。



“蓝箭”号于2001年1月在广深线投入运营。“蓝箭”号车内采用了航空式的装修，显得非常豪华舒适美观。车厢一端设有通过台、照明防滑控制台、一个四人商务包间及小走廊等；另一端设有带坐式便器卫生间、开敞式洗脸间、清洁用具柜、饮水机；中部为按２＋２单向排列的旅客座位，带有１个可折叠式茶几和２２０Ｖ电源插座，可以非常方便地进行商务活动。与众不同的是，“蓝箭”号还配有一个配餐室、小酒吧和残疾人卫生间。据悉，广深铁路股份有限公司还将于今年在广深线陆续投入“蓝箭”号电动车组，逐步实现广州、深圳间城际铁路公交化，每１５分钟发一趟高速列车，取消列车时刻表。



动力车主要特点和技术参数

● 目前中国速度最快的动车组
● 采用国际先进交传技术
● 适应高速运行的流线型车头
● 超轻量化的车体结构
● 采用小轮径半体悬全悬挂动力转向架新技术
● 年节电价值达数十万元
● 全车具有安全、平稳、舒适、快捷、经济的优良品质

用 途:城际客运
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blue-arrow driver's cabin
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blue-arrow
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Chuncheng Hao

type/ formation:
multiple unit Tc + M + T + M + M + Tc

(NB. the service from Kunming seems to run with seven vehicles)

transmission: AC-DC
power (kw):
2,160
max speed (km/h): 120
builder:
Changchun /Zhuzhou
where used:
Kunming - Shilin

name:
Chuncheng Hao 春城号 (lit. spring city i.e. Kunming)
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Chuncheng Hao

　　该电动车组为迎接“99”昆明世界园艺博览会开发制造中国首列商业运行电动车组。

　　该电动车组采用动力分散型交直传动方式，以一动一拖为一个动力单元，一列6辆编组，可运用于标准轨距电气化线路上，牵引总功率2160KW。

　　该电动车组的电传动系统主电路采用了国内电力机车成熟技术一可控硅多段桥技术及微机控制技术；控制电路采用多单元重联技术，安全可靠，便于操作；辅助电路采用分组整流、分散逆变的方式，每辆车设一台2X35KVA静止逆变器，可为空调、电热、电茶炉以及微波炉等电器设备提供电源；空调、塞拉门、照明采用集中控制的方式。

　　该电动车组首次采用无摇枕转向架及数字模拟式制动机。车内造型新颖、色调明快，大量地采用了新技术、新结构、新材料。车内设施齐全，软座车为新型可调节座椅，硬座车为仿人体工程学座椅，并设有投影电视、信息显示、吧台、食品冷热加工设备、真空集便装置等设施，大大提高了该车的舒适性和实用性。

　　该电动车组为分散动力型、无污染的环保型绿色交通工具。具有普通旅客列车所无法比拟的灵活编组、机动开行的优点，又具有公路交通工具无法比拟的速度快、运量大、效率高、投资省、安全性好的优点，为城际间的最佳交通工具之一。
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Chuncheng hao
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ZhongYuan Star, running between Wuhan and Zhengzhou

160km/h动力分散型交流传动电动车组（中原之星）是为了满足人们对舒适、快捷的旅客运输越来越高的要求而诞生的。该电动动车组具有先进、可靠、快捷、舒适、环保、节能以及方便维护等特点，同时该动车组还具备较好的动力性能，能为旅客提供较好的旅行环境，方便铁路部门组织运营等一系列优点。


中原之星司机台

该动车组的编组在考虑确保各车辆重量均衡的前提下，结合国内研制的牵引变流设备的容量，采用动力分散方式。该动车组在牵引功率、动力配置和控制方式上都与地铁车辆相同。全列车由两个完全相同的动力单元组成，主传动系统采用交—直—交传动方式。



主要技术参数

列车编组型式 =MC + TP + M + M + TP + MC=
总载客量 548人
轴式（一个动力单元） Bo-Bo+2-2+Bo-Bo
最大轴重（1.5倍定员载荷） 17t
牵引功率 3200 kW
最高运行速度 160 km/h
起动牵引力 215 kN
列车起动加速度（0-36km/h） ≥0.5 m/s2
电传动方式 交—直—交
调速方式 VVVF
动力制动方式　　　 　 再生制动
电制动功率 3600 kW
微机控制 分散式微机控制系统
常用制动 模拟式空气制动系统，具有空电混合制动功能
基础制动 动力车轮盘制动具有储能停放制动功能
拖车轴盘制动具有储能停放制动功能
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Xianfeng Hao

type/ formation:
distributed power
transmission:
power (kw):

max speed (km/h): 200
builder:Nanjing

where used:
prototype
name:
Xianfeng Hao (pioneer) 先峰号
Guangzhou, May 2002
Pineer MTU

“先锋”号动车组是我国第一列时速２００公里的电动列车车组，由南京浦镇车辆厂制造。“先锋”号是我国首列动力分散型交流传动电动车组，也是目前国内速度最高的电动车组。它由两个单元组成，每个单元３节车厢，其中两节车自带动力，另一节车为拖车。“先锋”号采用了目前国内数十项最先进设计，整体设计性能达到国外同类产品的水平。电动车组设有一等软座车１辆，二等软座车５辆，总定员为４２４人，车内设有电话间。据悉，“先锋”号在通过实验后，将在我国首条准高速铁路线——北京至秦皇岛京秦线以及广州至深圳的广深线上运营。
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X2000

type/ formation:
power car + trailers Mc + 5T + Tc (tilting)
transmission:
power (kw):
3,260
max speed (km/h): 210
builder:
ABB, Sweden
where used:
Guangshen (through to Hong Kong)
name:
Xinshisu (lit. the new speed i.e. a new level of speed)

新时速
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New Speed, running between Guangzhou-HK
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New Speed
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KTT also should be MTU

九广东铁的首列双层直通车—九广通（KTT）于九七年四月从瑞士和日本运抵香港，并进行试车。但由于东铁未能掌握广深线的电气化进度，一度将九广通搁置。98年1-5月，在红堪至罗湖间运营。当年8月28日，在港穗间投入运营。
九广通的载客量为670人，编组为7个客车，包括2个特等车厢和5个一等车厢，列车最高行驶速度为160km/h，由香港至广州东大约1小时45分钟，由香港至东莞大约1小时15分。
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列车驶过“天涯海角”
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迎水桥机务段
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京九线跨越陇海线的宋木林特大桥
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俯瞰南昆 Nankun railway
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提速列车急驰在广州市区 Train is running towards Guangzhou at accelerated speed
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根龙车站桥群
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运煤专列奔驰在妫水河特大桥上 Train for coal transportation on the bridge

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宝中线六盘山区展线 (zhongwei)Ningxia----baoji(Shaan xi)
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列车驶向延安 Train in the direction of Yan an
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全长3675米的宣杭铁路水阳江大桥
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金温铁路
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郑武段全国首次采用信号自动显示
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宝成线宝鸡峡
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兰新线上也有迷人的景色
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列车行驶在建于沼泽地的路基上
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列车从陇中高原与河西走廊的天然分界——祁连山脉的乌鞘岭通过
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电气化改造后的包兰线
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成渝线上著名的王二溪石拱桥
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丰沙线上的8K
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MTR to invest in Shenzhen underground system
By Alexandra Harney in Hong Kong
Published: January 15 2004 14:49 | Last Updated: January 15 2004 14:49

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?p...p=1012571727313

MTR, Hong Kong's mass transit operator, has agreed to invest in a Rmb6bn ($725m) extension to the underground system in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese boomtown.

The move - MTR's first investment outside the territory - highlights the growing integration of Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta, the industrial region that borders it on the Chinese mainland.

Hong Kong traditionally has been the largest investor in the Pearl River Delta, accounting for more than 70 per cent of foreign direct investment since 1979.

Shenzhen is selling off state-owned assets as part of government-wide reforms. Last month, it sold a stake in its water utility to Veolia Water, the water arm of Veolia Environnement of France.

Under the agreement with the Shenzhen government, MTR will invest about Rmb2.4bn in a project company to be formed in Shenzhen. Although initially it will control 100 per cent of the project company, MTR said on Thursday it would welcome strategic investors. MTR will keep at least a 51 per cent of the company.

The remaining cost of the extension, about 60 per cent, would come from other financing, MTR said. MTR will build 16.5km of track from Huanggang, at the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border, to Longhua New Town in Shenzhen. The Shenzhen Metro Company is already building a 4.5km stretch of track on this line.

MTR will take over operations of the entire line after it opens in 2008 under a 30-year contract. The agreement also allows the Hong Kong group to develop property at the stations and depot along the line.

The new line will provide a vital link between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, and help to alleviate Shenzhen's traffic problems, which have worsened as car ownership has risen sharply in recent years.

The extension project, which marks the first time a non-state-owned company has been allowed to invest in a railway in China, needs approval from Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission, part of the State Council.

"Urban railways are essential elements of any infrastructure expansion to support economic growth of fast-growing cities like Shenzhen," Raymond K.F. Ch'ien, MTR chairman, said.

Since MTR's partial listing in Hong Kong in October 2000, the Hong Kong government has controlled about 76 per cent of MTR.

Harbin railway station
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Outside the station
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VIP room
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Daqing railway station
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Daqing bus station, outside of railway station
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Mudanjiang railway station
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inside station
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Mudangjiang station
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ticket room
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Heavy snow outside
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Baicheng railway station in Jilin province
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Daan north railway station in Jilin province
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Qiqihaer railway station in Helongjiang province
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Changzhou railway station u/c
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Chengdu north railway station
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Chengdu north station
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Panzhihua railway station in Sichuan province
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Jinsha river (Yangtse river) bridge at Panzhihua
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Suzhou lightrail plan map. It just started the construction
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AFP
Mar 11, 2004





Prototype Shanghai high-speed train has started testing.

Top Chinese and French leaders just concluded their meeting in Paris last month. This month the contract to build the Shanghai-to-Beijing high-speed railway project has just been announced. The French company Alstom won the bid; it got the US$12 billion project.
Did the French government sell-out its principles to get contracts such as that won by Alstom? During the top leader’s meeting between China and France in Paris a number of interesting events occurred: the Eiffel tower was lit in red to welcome the Chinese New Year; the French President made some surprising criticisms about Taiwan’s referendum; he appealed to the European Union to lift the weapons ban on China; and Paris police, in an uncommon action, detained New Year’s parade viewers simply for wearing yellow (Falun Gong is associated with the color yellow and it is persecuted in China). At the time of the meeting, several reports criticized the French government for ignoring China’s human rights problems in order to benefit commercially.

Takungpao in Hong Kong reports that on Feb. 11, Beijing officials decided on the TGV system from the French company Alstom as the winner this $12 billion project. Officials from the Ministry of Railways refused to confirm the news. The official told the AFP journalist that this kind of decision should come from the Department of State.

According to the Takungpao report, the Ministry of Railways started to plan the Shanghai-to-Beijing high-speed railway in 1994. It is China’s second largest project, second only to the Three Gorges dam project. The argument of whether to go with the magnetically levitated vehicle or conventional wheel system has lasted for ten years. The express railway is planned to stretch over 1,300 kilometers. If conventional wheel technology is used, the whole trip would take around 4.5 hours.

Germany, France and Japan all have world-class express railway technology. France has superior TGV technology, German has advanced transforming technology in its ICE technology, Japan has mature management and operation experience due to its Shinkansen. The Shinkansen also has a separated driving force (driving force not only provided by just the first and/or the last engine vehicles), making it more efficient and at the cutting edge of development. The report also stated that the Shanghai incident of the burning of a power cable contact head had a big impact on the decision to abandon the magnetically levitated vehicle. Thus, Germany lost out. Officials from the Ministry of Railways and the coordinator of the railway project decided the Shanghai-to-Beijing express railway would adopt the conventional wheel technology.

The conventional wheel system may have won out due to legitimate deliberation, and the Chinese government has yet to confirm the decision about the Express Railway contract, but $12 billion does give the rest of the world something to think about.
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-3-11/20362.html

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I am disappointed at this news. If Shanghai-to-Beijing express railway adopts the conventional wheel technology, I won't see any problem to use
Indigenious Chinese car--ChinaStar which also can reach maximum speed of 350km/h.

珠三角轨道交通圈:珠海到广州=38分钟!(图)

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http://gd.sina.com.cn 2004年03月05日 09:35:08 大洋网－广州日报



　　珠三角轨道交通广珠段拟年内开工广州至深圳段正在规划中

　　（记者黄文生摄影报道）记者昨天（3、4）从珠海交通局获悉，珠三角轨道交通广珠段拟于今年底前开工，2008年竣工。该线路以广州番禺石壁为起点站，北接京广客运专线，从番禺钟村石壁直至珠海拱北，全长105公里。另外，广州起点站番禺石壁至深圳段亦正在规划之中。珠三角轨道交通建成，将把珠三角主要城市纳入1小时城市圈范围。

　　珠海暂定前山、拱北两站点

　　据珠海交通局介绍，珠三角轨道交通广珠段拟为高架路，采用造价适中、技术成熟的轮轨技术，全长105公里，投资182亿元。珠海市将承担着提供土地资源，配合建设服务等方面工作。

　　据介绍，2001年6月《珠江三角洲城际快速轨道交通网线规划》通过了专家组的评审，2002年1月提出了总体规划。目前，广珠快线项目已确定由铁道部和广东省政府各出资50％建设，铁道第四勘察院为设计单位，目前可行性论证已完成，已经上报国家有关部门申请立项，马上组建项目公司，如这些工作上半年能完成，下半年就可以完善设计等方面的工作，年内就能动工。

　　珠海现正积极配合珠三角轨道交通广珠段规划工作，珠海市正与铁道部、省有关单位开展项目的初测、可行性研究工作，珠海方面意见是从中山坦洲进入珠海明珠路、港昌路，然后进入拱北。由于拱北人口密集，难以疏导旅客，因此有关人士建议将终点站设在珠海前山。

　　广珠铁路招商办陈工程师告诉记者，珠三角轨道交通广珠段是解决城市之间的大客流，目标是实现城市间交通快速化，把珠三角西部城市带动起来，使到珠三角城市连成一体化，轨道交通深入珠三角城区；而广珠铁路是开展客货兼营业务，其设计绕道向西方向行驶，偏离城区，从广州至珠海将近2小时车程。两者之间所担负的功能及走向都不同。

　　珠海将融入1小时城市圈

　　陈工程师说，一旦广珠铁路与珠三角轨道交通广珠线建成，珠海将具备货运与客运双轨道，连接已规划及正在建设的京珠高速公路、沿海高速、港珠澳大桥等大型交通干道的珠海市，海运、空运齐全，珠海将融入1小时城市圈。

　　列车走高架路时速200公里

　　珠海交通局工程技术人员介绍，珠三角轨道交通线路拟铺设高架路轨道，轨道列车在轨道上行驶，途经每个城市均有上落客站，时速达200公里，轻轨交通和公路交通相比，占用土地少，公路占用的土地是建设轻轨的7倍以上，其次从环境污染来看，汽车对大气的污染已日显突出，而轻轨交通主要是依赖电力，对环境污染小，轻轨速度要比公路运输快2倍以上，是未来交通发展的方向，亦是现代化的象征。

广珠双轨交通对照表 广珠铁路 珠三角轨道交通广珠段 线路安排 北起广州市的三眼桥火车站，通过广州铁路枢纽与京广、广深、广茂、广梅汕铁路相连接，南至珠海站，广珠铁路干线途经佛山、南海、顺德、鹤山、江门、新会和珠海，全长140公里。珠海港支线长33.8公里，在珠海设立鹤洲北、小赤坎、白蕉三个站点

　　

拟为高架路，采用造价适中、技术成熟的轮轨技术，全长105公里，北接京广线，从番禺石壁广州新客站经顺德、南投、小榄、中山、珠海共18个站点，建成后时速200公里，将是全国速度最快的有轨列车，从珠海到广州仅需38分钟 功能 以货运为主同时兼顾部分长途客运 以客运为主 进展 国内几家国有大公司正与广珠铁路招商办接洽、商谈 暂定铁道部和广东省各出资
　　50％，今年底前开工，2008年竣工。



　　珠三角轨道交通线路走向图（红色线为广珠段，蓝色线为广深段及其辐射线）
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Speed, speed, speed up, the hottest word in railway history.

思考中国铁路第5次大面积提速：火车还能跑多快

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http://www.sina.com.cn 2004年03月03日17:05 三联生活周刊

　　火车还能跑多快

　　“在某种意义上，新技术往往是为速度而生的。”中国工程院院士、湖南株洲电力机车厂高级工程师刘友梅接受记者采访时说的这段话有了新注脚——2004年2月22日，铁道部宣布:今年4月18日，全国铁路自1994年以来作第五次大面积提速，时速160公里及其以上的线路达到7700公里，几大干线将开行一批“一站直达特别快车”。明年还将实施第六次大面
美妙时光产权酒店 紫光台式电脑
小户型主阵容揭晓 多媒体互动学英语


积提速，部分提速干线列车时速可以提高到200公里。

　　时速200公里是怎样的概念呢？F1赛车多数情况下的平均速度，就是在200多公里每小时。

　　“把客车开得更快，吸引更多的客流”，中国铁路部门为此怀有巨大的热情。

　　2003年6月，秦皇岛—沈阳客运专线竣工，其设计时速就是200公里/小时(预留提高到250公里/小时的条件)。建成试车时，中国自行设计制造的“中华之星号”高速列车，最高速度已达到321.5公里/小时。这也足以和F1大赛中247.585公里的比赛最快平均时速和361.8公里的直线最快时速相比肩。

　　就在描画出第五次及第六次大面积提速图景的同时，引人注目的还有这样的信息:已经纳入规划之中或者正在建设的包括1.2万公里的客运专线，大批省会城市及大中城市间的快速客运通道，以及环渤海地区、长江三角洲地区、珠江三角洲地区三个城际快速客运系统。这一系列的线路，包括已经开通的秦皇岛—沈阳客运专线，和年内即将开通的北京—武汉快速列车等等，他们也都把目标对准了一个数字:时速200公里。

　　在2004年4月以后，中国将有28条铁路线上的列车时速达到200公里。承载“时速200公里”这种可能性的具象是:在纵横发达的高速铁路上，子弹头一样呼啸而过的火车，极速媲美F1赛车。铁道部官员在接受采访时说，“技术经济分析表明，实施时速200公里的提速，技术上可行，经济上合算”。

　　被描述为“外形酷似鸭嘴兽”的“中华之星”电力机车的设计时速已经达到270公里，而为提速专门设计的时速200公里的“先锋号”机车早已投入使用。铁道部科技司司长吴新民因此表示说，中国目前生产高速机车车头已经不存在技术难题。

　　在运行方面，刘友梅院士说有一个大动干戈的浩大工程——和高速列车速度相近的F1赛车在赛道上转弯时会面临相当于4到5倍于自身重力的加速度，列车运行是无法承受这样的急转弯的。弯道曲率半径越大，列车转弯越平缓。铁道部安监司、科技司专家宋书明说，为了尽量平稳，铁路部门对6万多公里铁路线上的弯道一一进行调整，将小半径线路全部改造成大半径或直线，同时调高曲线外轨。

　　运行速度加快，很多技术性的细节都要改变，比如厕所污物处理方式:列车两侧气压降低，列车上的厕所也要采用类似飞机的污物处理系统。

　　列车在高速状态下能否停得下来是安全的关键，铁道部科学研究院钱立新博士说，在机车车辆方面主要是解决制动问题，即刹车要可靠，而现在的提速列车采用盘形制动加电子防滑器，是我国提速技术上的一大突破。铁道部科学研究院副院长康熊介绍说，目前火车较快的时速在140公里，这样的速度下紧急制动的停车距离有1100米。他的同事钱立新博士告诉记者，我国现在的提速列车采用的是盘形制动加电子防滑器，能够保证列车在160公里的时速下，制动距离小于1400米。

　　还一个要点是“黑匣子”。宋书明提到，部分列车将安装上监督装备。这种类似“黑匣子”的设备能配合先进的DMIS调度运输指挥管理信息系统，在较快行车速度下测量车辆的脱轨系数、超载、偏载、车门开闭、车轮探伤等运行情况，并具备报警功能，使行车安全始终处于动态监控之中。

　　在令人眼花缭乱的技术词汇后面，更为重要的是人的因素，再先进的技术也还要靠人来操纵。有消息说，年内即将开通的武汉—北京高速线招聘高速列车司机，要在10分钟内全部完成一套70道题目的测试，在接受专家组的心理测试后，80名司机中即有13位候选司机被判断为性格不适合驾驶高速列车。

　　技术上可靠是一个前提，对于中国的铁路部门而言更关键的是:速度产生效益。

　　巴黎至里昂TGV高速列车开行当年，往返于两地的旅客，20%乘坐火车，80%乘坐飞机。时至1999年，乘坐火车的已达90%，乘坐飞机的仅占10%。法铁有关专家得出结论，高速铁路运程在500公里以内，运行时间在3小时以内，其竞争力和抗衡力是其他运输工具所不能比的。因而，专门针对客运的高速铁路，由于运行高速、价格经济，会被越来越多的旅客选择作为出行工具。

　　被动与跨越

　　世界银行的铁路专家曾这样评价说，铁路传统上是垂直和水平构筑而成的，坚如磐石，它们不仅对其所有业务和设施进行从上到下的控制，而且为员工提供一个全方位的社会支持系统。这种磐石是昂贵的错误。

　　无论这种评价对于中国的适用性有多大，中国铁路的现实一直是各方关注的焦点所在，“如果铁路再不有所变化发展，就会拖小康社会的后腿，”铁道部发展计划司司长黄民接受记者采访时说。黄民说所谓的拖后腿就是铁路不适应国民经济和社会的发展，“显现出一种瓶颈制约现象”。

　　在中国铁路的发展历程中，有两个年份颇有代表性，一是1989年，一是2001年。黄民说:“解放初期铁路很受重视，营业里程很快就从开始的2.2万公里增加到四五万公里。‘文革’期间停了十几年，铁路营业里程在5万公里左右徘徊。1978年改革开放后，开始出现不适应现象，并且愈演愈烈，在1989年形成瓶颈制约。”

　　从20世纪80年代中期开始，中国铁路运输进入全面短缺状态，乘车难、买票难、运货难的现象日益突出，铁路运输能力不足成为制约国民经济迅速发展的瓶颈。也就在1989年以后，政府对铁路发展开始更加重视。1991年起国务院采取了提价收入直接设立铁路建设基金，专项用于铁路建设的措施。

　　十几年的发展后铁路不适应的状况有所缓解，但关键问题是，黄民说:“铁路的发展速度始终比国民经济增长的速度慢。”他举例说，“90年代及以前铁路投资基本占全社会固定资产投资的2%以上，到1998年达到投资高峰，500多个亿，所以到了1998年后铁路不适应国民经济和社会发展的状况有所缓解。但是到了去年铁路投资占全社会固定资产投资的比例已降到1%以下，下降了一个百分点。一方面铁路的投资总额维持在500多个亿左右，与之相对应的是国民生产总值发展非常快，从1998年到2003年达到8%以上，这样就导致在2003年瓶颈制约现象再次显现。”

　　铁道部领导指出，近年来，铁路在国家交通基础设施投资总量中的比重有所下降，与其他交通运输行业两位数的增长相比，铁路营业里程5.6%的增幅确实太慢了。

　　回顾这一历程，黄民感慨地说:“铁路从改革开放以后到现在，一直是瓶颈状态，每次都是在有所缓解还没有缓解时，‘嘭’地就又是一个瓶颈。”

　　中国的铁路给人的印象是:始终被动地跟在后面。有专家甚至认为，90年代之前及90年代前期，铁路在市场上一直维持一种供不应求的供求状况，是因为那时中国交通运输需求增长急剧，而公路运输发展不足，所以铁路运输系统仍处于垄断性地位，而这一点带来的不利一面是，这种表面繁荣延宕了体制改革的要求。

　　在这样的背景下，铁道部推出“跨越式发展”，铁道部部长刘志军说:“铁路跨越式发展是一项复杂的系统工程，需要解决一些深层次的矛盾，需要攻克许多长期积累的难题，需要调整诸多方面的利益关系。”

　　黄民因此说，铁路的第一要务是:发展。

　　角逐交通运输市场

　　90年代中国交通运输市场发展出现很多变数，尤其是民航和公路运输发生的变化——包括供应(交通工具和基础设施如公路、机场等)的急速增加和运输体制全面市场化，使交通运输市场上的供求关系发生了深远转变，对铁路运输直接构成强大的竞争压力。

　　铁道部政策法规司司长曹钟雄曾指出，运输市场竞争日益激烈，铁路客、货周转量占现代化运输比重已经从1980年的60.5%、71.7%(不含远洋运输)，一度下降到34.9%、54.6%，铁路面临着严峻的挑战。

　　有学者分析说:“1994年以前公路的竞争力并未真正表现出来，总体经济增长还是以粗放方式推动，铁路运输因而可以长期保持供不应求的高效益。可是90年代，尤其是1992年之后，公路建设加快，经济增长有结构性变化，对运输需求相应减少，铁路系统内外成本大幅上涨，在1994年便出现广泛的亏损。1995年铁路提价，则进一步暴露需求增长减缓、公路运输竞争加强之下的铁路运输的竞争劣势，因而导致需求大幅下降，供应全面过剩，亏损变成全行业性的普遍现象，且比1994年更为严重。”

　　铁路运输被认为是大宗货物运输的骨干力量，黄民解释说:“中国的特点是西、北部资源丰富，但工业加工集中在东、南部，所以资源跨区长距离运输就必然需要低成本的运输方式。”

　　在客运方面，铁路运输在市场上的优势在90年代则很受质疑，据说那段时间客车大战火车成功的故事俯拾即是。有香港学者撰文指出，中国铁路客运还是19世纪的模式，服务的质量和档次都没有提升，只是价格上升，而竞争对手是最现代化设备装备的民航和公路的汽车运输。于是，不单是长途运输在时间上逊色于民航，短途运输在时间和费用方面逊色于公路，即使在中途运输方面，由于成本被人为抬高(主要反映在内部工资成本上升等方面)、额外成本大(如服务恶劣带给消费者在购票等方面的额外时间和费用支出)，低质服务同时亦驱走高服务方面的需求(如铁路大力推广的“优质优价”列车利用率低下)等原因，亦使铁路在经济发达地区和大城市之间的范围内逐步丧失商务和高收入者的市场需求。

　　黄民说，铁路和其他运输方式的竞争存在，而在东部更为突出，但是现在的情况是，协调大于竞争;至于人们争论甚多的铁路与公路等的竞争，黄民说:“铁路提供的是低成本的服务，有时候铁路不能适应需要，很多时候就主动放弃短途运输。过去铁路在短途运输占的份额很高，后来由于能力紧张，就主动放弃了这块市场。”

　　在分析竞争格局下的铁路运输角色时，黄民仍然乐观，他说，“90年代后人流需求旺盛——城乡二元结构及农村劳力进城务工的现象，带来的人流很大，什么来支撑这么巨大的人流？是铁路。铁路提供的是低成本的运输方式，公路的舒适度显然不如火车，而飞机要做到大众化也很难，因此铁路在综合交通体系中的地位仍然是中长途运输中的骨干，而且在未来仍然是这样。”

　　低成本不仅是铁路与公路、飞机竞争的优势，它几乎是铁路在中国必然生存的解释。黄民说，相对于公路而言，在占地方面，铁路是占地最少的交通运输方式，按单位运输量测量，铁路是公路的1/10，也就是说完成同样运输量的情况下，公路需要占用的土地资源是铁路的10倍。

　　另一方面，从供给方来看，由于资源短缺，预计2020年我国进口石油将超过2亿吨，其中大部分是汽车使用。相比之下铁路在能耗占地方面具有明显优势，黄民说，中国的能源现状要求更多地依靠二次能源，这一点铁路可以做到。按单位运量计算，在能耗方面公路是铁路的6倍，航空是铁路的30倍。

　　一些数据也证明铁路存在的价值:从运输能力看，客运每小时单向输送能力，公共汽车5000人，城市轻轨4万人，地铁7万人，铁路可达15万人。除此之外，铁路运输在废气排放、噪音和安全方面也有不少运输优势。

　　平衡自己的优势和面对的对手，作为铁路主业的运输经济效益至关重要。刘志军说:“1997年以来，通过四次大面积提速调图，全路运输收入实现了大幅度增长，每年平均同口径增收近80亿元，但这些增加的收入基本被增加的成本支出消耗掉了，企业自我发展的能力非常脆弱。在不断变化的市场环境中，这种经营状况始终存在危机。在长远看，没有良好的运输经济效益，铁路就没有加快发展的经济基础。”

　　突破口:速度

　　黄民说，铁道部今年的投资计划是1000亿元，投资重点之一就是对主干线运输能力的扩容，“为了尽快缓解铁路运输‘瓶颈’制约，我们必须选择一些能尽快实现突破的项目。”今年铁道部的另一个重要的举措是，第五次大面积提速调图的推出，刘志军说，“第五次大面积提速调图将进一步提升铁路的竞争能力。”

　　第五次提速的目的之一显然是发展中长途客运，大力拓展客运市场。铁道部宣布将4月18日定为全国铁路第五次大面积提速的时间。从更长远的规划来看，黄民说，快速提高运输能力，尽快建成一个发达的铁路网是《中长期铁路网规划》的重要内容，也是解决铁路“瓶颈”制约的重要措施。铁路新的投资方向是完善中东部路网结构，扩大西部路网规模，提高对经济发展的适应能力。“为尽快形成西部铁路网，规划建设新线约1.6万公里。形成西北、西南进出境国际铁路通道，西北至华北新通道，西北至西南新通道，新疆至青海、西藏的便捷通道;完善西部地区和东中部铁路网络。”

　　黄民说，“加大修建西部和中东部地区联系的大规模通道，在西部20万人口以上的地区都要有一条铁路之外，在东部铁路网，对铁路干线进行运输能力的加强，在城市人口密集地区修建快速城际干线。”根据规划，铁路部门将建立省会城市及大中城市间的快速客运通道，以及环渤海地区、长江三角洲地区、珠江三角洲地区三个城际快速客运系统。建设客运专线将达1.2万公里以上。

　　东西部显然不同，黄民解释说，西部地区一次性投入很大、固定资本投资很大。这更多地是从长远着眼，起拉动作用。西部是开发型、公益型特征很明显。初期只能算政治账、社会账，不能算经济账。

　　从投资的角度来看，黄民认为，经营公路的人不需要配备运输工具，而经营铁路线路的人，不仅要修线路，还要考虑运输工具，虽然包括了后一项，铁路的投资仍然比高速公路还便宜。

　　“速度对客运来说很关键，没有速度提高就没有一系列改进。实现铁路现代化，速度是一个重要标志。”黄民说。

全国铁路18日第五次大提速 新增Z字打头直通车

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　　记者曾曙华

　　晨报讯 本月18日中国铁路进行第五次大提速后，旅客将在列车时刻表上发现一个新的列车品种“Z”字头列车，这就是沿途不停、一路直达的“直通车”，该列车的出现将使
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中国铁路的旅客列车品种从目前的4种增至5种。原有的4种是：“T”字头(特快列车)、“K”字头(快速列车)、“L”字头(临时客车)和四位数字编号的普通车。

　　“Z”字头列车的出现将不仅仅是增加一个新的铁路客运品种，更重要的是“Z”字头列车将在铁路客运服务上给人一个全新的感觉。据了解，在“4·18”提速后，全国将有19趟“Z”字头列车，其中涉及上海铁路局的有11趟，仅京沪列车就占了5趟。

　　解读Z字购票细节

　　车票可预售20天，提前180天预订。预订的车票将被保留到开车前7天。旅客只要在开车前7至20天付款就可取票。

　　旅客如需更改预订日期，可在取票前向铁路部门提出，在列车运能允许的情况下，铁路部门将给予办理。

　　购票后，旅客如果要求提前或改乘晚一点的列车，在列车运能允许的情况下，铁路部门可为其办理一次改签。

　　首批软席售票处今天在沪启用

　　晨报讯 位于西藏南路121号的市内软席售票处、铁路上海站西南出口处西侧的站区软席售票处内部装修业已完毕，并将于今天正式对外售票。

　　昨天上午，记者来到铁路上海站西南出口处西侧的软席售票处，只见铁路工作人员正在进行最后的设备调试。记者看到传统的售票窗口不见了，取而代之的是85厘米高的大理石敞开式低柜台，售票电脑是清一色的液晶显示屏，隔着柜台放着一排小转椅供购票者坐，据称今后还要设置一米线。沿进门处放着一排蓝色靠椅，供等候者坐，进门处还设有号码机，购票者将按每个柜台上方电子屏上显示的号码坐等排队购票。整个购票环境已与传统的铁路售票处完全不一样了。



Wow, The speed will be accelerated to more than 160km/h

铁路明年第六次提速

中国铁道部前不久宣布：今年4月18日，全国铁路将实现自1994年以来的第五次大面积提速，时速160公里及其以上的线路将达到7700公里，京广线、京沪线等几大干线将开行一批“一站直达特别快车”。明年还将实施第六次大面积提速，部分提速干线列车时速可以提高到200公里。据央视

　

近日，武铁客运段新近录用的２８名Ｚ３７／３８次直达列车乘务员，经过强化培训后，上岗跟车实习。１８日铁路第五次提速时，这批具有大专旅游专业学历、会讲英语的“新型乘务员”，将正式在一站式豪华直达列车上上岗。
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Just simply touch the screen ,then everything is clear at a glance.
火车运行过程中的车厢动静，列车员室的墙上电子触摸屏一目了然
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everyone has a TV to watch.
十八节软卧车，每间房四张铺，每铺都有电视，可以各得其乐
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看着液晶电视喝着鸡尾酒，坐着“星级列车”去北京

　 记者 一丁

　昨天清晨，苏州开往北京的直达列车Z86次首次抵达苏州火车站，并将试运营到18日，从18日零时起正式启用。由于该列车无论在硬件设施上，还是软件的服务质量上，都称得“星级列车”，甚至被认为是“落地的航班，流动的宾馆”，昨天记者参观了这辆引起众人关注的列车。
　该列车是专门配合铁道部第五次提速，由南车集团四方机车车辆股份有限公司刚刚制造出的，列车采用崭新豪华的最新25T型软卧、硬卧车体。车厢按星级宾馆设计，在这个“行走中的星级宾馆”里，给人的感觉非常宽敞和温暖，软卧车厢每间有4个铺，坐上去像席梦思，所用的材料都是选择强度大、坚固的航空板材，既轻又薄，因而显得宽敞明亮。车上配备了车载影视系统，在每个床尾，都挂有一部液晶电视，乘客可看8个频道的电视节目。餐车的餐座由48个减少到16个，位置更为舒适，有三台液晶电视机供旅客收看电视节目，同时设有休闲茶座区和吧区，并有调酒师为乘客服务。
　在环保上，新列车也有重大改进。餐车烧饭、炒菜等都使用电磁灶，而以前则是烧煤的。每节车厢设有封闭柜式垃圾箱，避免了垃圾暴露问题。卫生间配有残疾人专用厕所，厕所里有专门供残疾人方便用的扶手，并配用警示铃，如果需要帮助，只需按一按，与之联接的乘务员车厢里就会听到。
　 据了解，尽管列车的设施更为先进，但票价仍然保持不变，硬卧一铺309元、中铺300元、上铺290元；软卧下铺472元、上铺452元；特级软包上铺831元，下铺867元。

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铁道部
发改交运[2004]
国家发展改革委 2004-3-17
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国家发展改革委关于印发《中长期铁路网规划》的通知
铁道部：
《中长期铁路网规划》业经国务院审议通过，现印发你们，请遵照执行。铁路具有大运力、低成本优势，在综合运输体系中占有重要地位。制订《中长期铁路网规划》，加快铁路发展，对于促进国民经济持续快速增长，全面建设小康社会，是十分必要的。在铁路网规划实施中要做好以下几项工作：
一、要根据国民经济和社会发展规划，按照全面、协调、可持续发展的指导思想，统筹考虑铁路、公路、民航、水运、管道等整个运输体系的建设和资源的合理配置，充分发挥各种运输方式的优势，区分轻重缓急，突出重点，加强薄弱环节。具体项目可根据实际情况适时调整。
二、要加快铁路现代化建设，立足国产化，引进和吸收国外先进经验和技术，增强自主创新能力，带动相关产业的发展。
三、要积极稳妥地推进铁路建设、管理和运营体制的改革，加快投资主体多元化步伐，提高资源使用效率和运输效益。
附：《中长期铁路网规划》

二OO四年一月二十一日
附件：
中长期铁路网规划展目标

为适应全面建设小康社会的目标要求，铁路网要扩大规模，完善结构，提高质量，快速扩充运输能力，迅速提高装备水平。到2020年，全国铁路营业里程达到 10万公里，主要繁忙干线实现客货分线，复线率和电化率均达到50％，运输能力满足国民经济和社会发展需要，主要技术装备达到或接近国际先进水平。
二、规划原则
(一)统筹考虑与其它运输方式及能源等相关行业的发展，通道布局、运力分配与公路、民航、水运、管道等规划有机衔接；
(二)能力紧张的繁忙干线实现客货分线，经济发达的人口稠密地区发展城际快速客运系统；
(三)加强各大经济区之间的连接，协调点线能力，使客货流主要通道畅通无阻；
(四)增加路网密度，扩大路网覆盖面，为经济持续发展、国土开发和国防建设创造有利条件；
(五)提高铁路装备国产化水平，大力推进装备国产化工作。
三、规划方案
为实现2020年铁路网发展目标，规划方案要在路网总规模扩大的同时，突出繁忙干线实现客货分线，人口稠密地区发展城际客运系统，提高路网质量，扩大运输能力，形成功能完善、点线协调的客货运输网络。
(一)客运专线
为满足快速增长的旅客运输需求，建立省会城市及大中城市间的快速客运通道，规划“四纵四横”铁路快速客运通道以及三个城际快速客运系统。建设客运专线1．2万公里以上，客车速度目标值达到每小时200公里及以上。
1．“四纵”客运专线：
(1)北京～上海客运专线，贯通京津至长江三角洲东部沿海经济发达地区；
(2)北京一武汉一广州一深圳客运专线，连接华北和华南地区；
(3)北京一沈阳一哈尔滨(大连)客运专线，连接东北和关内地区；
(4)杭州一宁波～福州一深圳客运专线，连接长江、珠江三角洲和东南沿海地区。
2．“四横”客运专线：
(1)徐州一郑州一兰州客运专线，连接西北和华东地区；
(2)杭州一南昌一长沙客运专线，连接华中和华东地区；
(3)青岛一石家庄一太原客运专线，连接华北和华东地区；
(4)南京一武汉一重庆～成都客运专线，连接西南和华东地区。
3．三个城际客运系统
环渤海地区、长江三角洲地区、珠江三角洲地区城际客运系统，覆盖区域内主要城镇。
(二)完善路网布局和西部开发性新线
以扩大西部路网规模为主，形成西部铁路网骨架，完善中东部铁路网结构，提高对地区经济发展的适应能力。规划建设新线约1．6万公里。
1．新建中吉乌铁路喀什～吐尔尕特段，改建中越通道昆明～河口段，新建中老通道昆明一景洪一磨憨段、中缅通道大理一瑞丽段等，形成西北、西南进出境国际铁路通道；
2．新建太原～中卫(银川)线、临河～哈密线，形成西北至华北新通道；
3．新建兰州(或西宁)～重庆(或成都)线，形成西北至西南新通道；
4．新建库尔勒～格尔木线、龙岗一敦煌一格尔木线，形成新疆至青海、西藏的便捷通道；
5．新建精河一伊宁、奎屯一阿勒泰、林芝～拉萨一日喀则、大理～香格里拉、永州一玉林和茂名、合浦一河唇、西安一平凉、柳州一肇庆、桑根达来一张家口、准格尔～呼和浩特、集宁一张家口等西部区内铁路，完善西部地区铁路网络；
6．新建铜陵一九江、九江～景德镇～衢州、赣州一韶关、龙岩一厦门、湖州～嘉兴～乍浦、金华一台州及东北东边道等铁路，完善东中部铁路网络。
(三)路网既有线
加强既有路网技术改造和枢纽建设，提高路网既有通道能力。规划既有线增建二线1．3万公里，既有线电气化l.6万公里。
1．在建设客运专线的基础上，对既有线进行扩能改造，在大同(含蒙西地区)、神府、太原(含晋南地区)、晋东南、陕西、贵州、河南、兖州、两淮、黑龙江东部等十个煤炭外运基地，形成大能力煤运通道。近期要优先考虑大秦线扩能、北同蒲改造、黄骅至大家洼铁路建设和石太线扩能，实现客货分运，加大煤炭外运能力。
2．结合客运专线的建设，对既有京哈、京沪、京九、京广、陆桥、沪汉蓉和沪昆等七条主要干线进行复线建设和电气化改造。
3. 以北京、上海、广州、武汉、成都、西安枢纽为重点，调整编组站，改造客运站，建设机车车辆检修基地，完善枢纽结构，使铁路点线能力协调发展。
4．建设集装箱中心站，改造集装箱运输集中的线路，行双层集装箱列车。
四、实施意见
总体目标：规划从2003年开始，在2020年前逐步建成。实施计划如下：
(一)“十五”建设计划调整
到2005年铁路营业里程达到7.5万公里，其中复线铁路2．5万公里，电气化铁路2万公里以上。具体建设项目调整如建设客运专线，开工建设北京一上海、武汉一广州、安一郑州、石家庄一太原、宁波～厦门等客运专线。建设城市密集地区城际客运系统，开工建设环渤海地区北京一天津，长江三角洲南京一上海一杭州，珠江三角洲广州一深圳、广州一珠海、广州～佛山城际客运系统。
加快完善路网结构，开工建设宜昌～万州、烟台一大连轮渡、合肥一南京、麻城～六安、太原～中卫(银川)、精河一伊宁、永州～玉林(茂名)、铜陵一九江、大理一丽江、龙岗一敦煌、黄骅一大家洼铁路等新线。
加快既有线扩能改造，实施京沪线、焦柳线、黔桂线、兰新线武威至嘉峪关段、沪杭线、天津～沈阳、石德线电化改造，开工建设沪汉蓉既有段、昆明一六盘水、滨洲线海拉尔至满洲里、湘桂线衡阳至柳州复线，进行大秦线、西延线扩能改造。
加快主要枢纽及集装箱中心站建设，对北京、上海、广州、武汉、成都、西安枢纽进行改造，建设上海、昆明、哈尔滨、广州、兰州、乌鲁木齐、天津、青岛、北京、沈阳、成都、重庆、西安、郑州、武汉、大连、宁波、深圳等18个集装箱中心站。
(二)2010年阶段目标
到2010年，铁路网营业里程达到8.5万公里左右，其中客运专线约5000公里，复线3.5万公里，电气化3.5万公里。
进—步建设客运专线。建成北京～上海、武汉～广州、西安一郑州、石家庄一太原、宁波一厦门等客运专线。开工建设北京一武汉、天津一秦皇岛、厦门一深圳等客运专线。
进—步扩大路网规模，建设云南进出境、中吉乌、合浦至河唇、赣州至韶关、龙岩至厦门、湖州至乍浦、兰州(或西宁)至重庆(或成都)、西安至平凉、隆昌至黄桶、东北东边道等铁路。
进一步提高既有线能力，建设邯济线、宁芜线、西康线、平齐线、大郑线、滨绥线等复线。
从云南人藏的滇藏线仍继续做好地质调查和技术经济分析，是否建设视研究论证结果再定。
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Guangxi Beihai-Nanning intercity express train

Beihai station
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Beihai station
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The train
http://img7.imagetown.net/43450753.jpg
The train in Beihai station
http://img7.imagetown.net/80932170.jpg
The train
http://img7.imagetown.net/77186369.jpg
The train
http://img7.imagetown.net/96272247.jpg

Nanning station
http://img7.imagetown.net/35845247.jpg
ChinaStar, max speed 350 km/h
http://img7.imagetown.net/20461085.jpg
http://img7.imagetown.net/77090793.jpg
Z trains in Beijing
http://img7.imagetown.net/30169785.jpg
直达特快列车 Z trains
http://img7.imagetown.net/40065451.jpg
http://img7.imagetown.net/70973623.jpg

ZT
http://img3.imagetown.net/81650167.jpg
http://img3.imagetown.net/80079024.jpg
25K
http://img3.imagetown.net/35808506.jpg
http://img3.imagetown.net/41174219.jpg
http://img3.imagetown.net/12111976.jpg
http://img3.imagetown.net/95706119.jpg
车厢顶
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High speed train from Tianjin to Beijing
天津进京的早晨第一班神州号城际特快
http://img3.imagetown.net/27919429.jpg
25G也很迷人
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Urumqi station
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Urumqi station
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Urumqi station
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Urumqi station
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Urumqi station
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Urumqi station
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Underground exit
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株洲电力机车厂出口乌兹别克斯坦电力机车
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株洲电力机车厂出口哈萨克斯坦电力机车
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三种直特牵引机车　
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SS9g
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提速前一天的SS9-0079，第五次大提速的主力车型之一，牵引Z17/18北京至长沙的直达特快列车
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4月17日18时53分，北京站开出首列直达列车——北京至杭州的Z9次，DF11G-0011号内燃机车披红挂彩
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本次列车的车厢为南车四方股份制造的25T客车
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25T软卧车厢内部
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扬州站 Yangzhou station

　又名扬州客运站。建于2003年，2004年3月竣工，2004年4月18日投入运营。苏中客运中心。离南京北站92公里，隶属上海铁路局南京铁路分局管辖；宁启铁路有限责任公司客运总部。现为一级站。客运：办理旅客乘降；邮政、行包、行李、包裹托运；办理公铁水陆联运业务；客运列车交路、临时编组；客运列车始发、存车、到发列检。不办理货运营业。
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Does China have any trains that can rival Japan's shinkansen (bullet train) in terms of luxury, style, and speed?

Does China have any trains that can rival Japan's shinkansen (bullet train) in terms of luxury, style, and speed?

Yes the Shanghai Maglev.

But if you are asking if China built any train of its own that can rival the Japs then not yet.

The stations in Northern China looks so tacky. Some are just horrible and have no taste whatsoever. Like these:

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The stations in Northern China looks so tacky. Some are just horrible and have no taste whatsoever. Like these:

http://img7.imagetown.net/44449748.jpg

http://img7.imagetown.net/63410183.jpg

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Those stations were built in 1950s. They have trace style of Russian archtechture that only is unique in Heilongjiang province.

I have to agree. That style of architecture is historic and unique in China. I would rather it be there than modern, high-tech train stations because there are so many of them around now that it just makes everything look bland and plain.

yes I know they are Russian communistic style buildings. Are you sure those 3 pictures I picked out are old? They look newly built to me but have a( as you mentioned ) 1950's feel.

^^ Da'an bei station I guess was built in 1970s, but Harbin and Baicheng station absolutely are old.

Harbin Railway station
http://www.cnta.com/lyen/city/harbin/2j/g03.asp
First built in 1899, Harbin Railway Station is one of the largest railway stations in China conducting the business of passenger transportation, goods transportation and providing services of food, accommodation, travel and recreation. Located at central Harbin, it is an important transportation hub in northeast China and a window of Heilongjiang Province and Harbin city. Connecting many cities by Hachang, Habin, Hazhou, Hasui and Labin railways, it can handle 132 pairs of passenger trains each day, including 14 pairs of tourist coaches, 1 pair international trains per week and over 80,000 passengers each day. There are 3 main waiting-halls and 4 waiting-halls for tourist trains as well as 3 assistant waiting-halls. All the staff at the railway station will do their utmost to provide the best services for the passengers and tourists. Welcome to Harbin Railway Station!
http://www.cnta.com/lyen/city/harbin/tu/h32.jpg

Really an amazing thread! Thanks a lot.

Wuhan light rail
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902B62.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902BB4.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902C13.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902C1E.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902DF7.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00902F33.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/009037F8.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/0090385A.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/009038F2.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/009039DD.002C
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/00903F2E.002C

their server is temporarily down, wait a few hours the pictures should be back online. I don't hope it will be a few days

天兴洲大桥今日开工(图）
(湖北交通音乐广播 报道人：苗淼)



天兴洲大桥效果图。

天兴洲大桥今日开工。承担华东中南地区铁路路网研究的铁四院昨日透露：天兴洲大桥及其相关工程。涵盖大桥、铁路引线和新火车站。总投资约110.6亿元，其中桥梁只占31.1亿元。
　　天兴洲大桥原本只是作为铁路从武汉过长江的第二条通道，拟接改造后的武昌站。但是，铁道部批准武汉站作为中国东部四大枢纽中心之一后，天兴洲大桥的角色发生了变化。

　　据介绍，最初，铁道部在东部只规划了三个铁路枢纽中心：北京、上海和广州。枢纽中心的地位，意味着要配备大型客运站设施、相关客运服务及安排大量始发终到列车。

　　铁四院天兴洲大桥项目主设计师说，是武汉的地理优势为自己争取到第四个客运枢纽中心的地位。

　　在国家铁路中长期发展规划的四纵四横骨干路网中，武汉位于京广客运专线和沪汉蓉高速铁路的交叉处。

　　先期动工的武广客运专线全长965公里，按时速250—300公里设计。乘高速列车，武汉到广州或北京或上海，不超过5小时，武汉是体现铁路优势的理想之地。

　　预计武广客运专线2008年至2010年建成。设计高峰小时客流量1万人左右，全天十几万人，是目前我市春运高峰日的两倍。武汉的集散能量更大了。

　　客运专线的站距至少是50公里，这样，武汉100公里半径内的黄石、鄂州、孝感、黄冈、咸宁、仙桃、潜江、赤壁、麻城等中小城市来武汉更快捷，“武汉城市圈”联得更紧。

　　新武汉站规划了内外两个广场。西广场面向城市中心，武汉市民由此“出门”。东广场邻中环线，串起到“武汉城市圈”相关城市的十多条高速公路。

　　届时，从武汉站出发，以武广和沪汉蓉线为主轴，汉丹线、武九线为辅线，将形成一个辐射全国主要中心城市、时速200公里—300公里的快速铁路网。武汉铁路枢纽中心地位更强化。

更新日期： 2004-9-28

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连接京九线的赣龙铁路福建段全长157.8公里，总投资39亿元，地形复杂、施工难度高，70％多为桥隧。目前，福建段龙岩到连城县90公里铁轨已铺架完毕。林密 摄
http://www.66163.com/Fujian_w/news/fjrb/img/2004-09/28/Syzh90B.JPG

Wow didn't know Guangzhou has new metro trains. Those actually look A LOT better than the Siemens yellow trains.

Nanjing railway station u/c, it will be one of the largest and most beautiful one in China
http://forum.xinhuanet.com/upfiles/009E8F78.002C

wow

Hello, may I add some photos of Chongqing's?

http://myphoto.yesky.com/photo/17622/1007/20050202224559235664.jpg

http://myphoto.yesky.com/photo/17622/1007/20050202224532542951.jpg

http://myphoto.yesky.com/photo/17622/1007/20050202224458799963.jpg

Hello, may I add some photos of Chongqing's?



Sure, why not? You've revived this thread. I wish you add more. :)

http://english.people.com.cn/200112/12/images/huo.jpg
Traveling by train has become the first choice of the majority of Chinese as it is cheap, comfortable and quick as China increased its train speed four times since 1997. The number of passengers has increased from 920 million in 1997 to 980 million last year and there have been a record number of long-distance passengers. China's railway profits have increased by 83.8 billion yuan in four years.
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Chinese railways authorities show new trains on October 10 in Beijing to be used on trunk railway routes amid the country's move to increase train speed for the 4th time. The speed-up for trains, which can run as fast as 160 kilometres per hour, starts on October 21 with a focus on speed as well as convenience for travellers.
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The "Blue Arrow" high-speed passenger train, powered by an alternating current locomotive, was put into commercial operation here Monday, becoming the first passenger train to travel at 200 km per hour in China.
The train, which operates on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway, is composed of a locomotive engine and six trail cars, with 422 passenger seats.
Currently, it takes 60 minutes for the train to travel from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, but it will take only 55 minutes to complete the trip from March 1, when the new operation timetable is adopted by the Chinese railways.
The locomotive was jointly manufactured by five local locomotive builders. The highest speed of the locomotive, reached during a test run, is 235 km per hour.
In future, there will be shuttle trains, operating at 15-minute intervals, between Guangzhou, the provincial capital, and Shenzhen, the country's first special economic zone.



Great Changes
Li Lianlin, a 28-year-old businessman from Chongqing Municipality, says "I haven't traveled by train for years because it used to be slow and dirty with an unpleasant smell in the carriage."

"The most important change is that now you feel at home on the train," he adds.

But, everything was different when he traveled from Chongqing to Beijing recently. There were shining windows, a comfortable sleeper with bed lamp over head, electronic screen installed on each side of every carriage and announcements giving information such as the weather forecast and the time of arrival at the next station, which most passengers are interested in.

Fierce Competition
Chinese trains for a long time were described as "snails" as they used to run at speeds of 50 to 80 km per hour. In addition passengers often complained about the poor service.



The market has changed Chinese railways. With the rapid growth of highway and aviation industries, the Chinese railway system underwent a crisis in recent years.

Train speeds were increased in 1997. Today the fastest speed is 140 km per hour, 40 percent faster than that in early 1990s.

Better Services
Speed brings benefits to passengers and there are many facilities and services provided for passengers on modern trains.

Li found a small bag to hold a mobile phone in the train toilet. He was able to rent a small laser VCD player for entertainment, at a cost only 10 yuan (about 1.2 U.S. dollars) per hour.

"It can make the long journey more interesting, said a train staff member, adding, "I hope you have a pleasant memory of traveling by train." Li was indeed impressed by his recent experience.

A slogan on the train hits the mark by saying: "We can't shorten the distance, but we can save time for you."



Railway Reform

Chinese Railways (CR) has returned to profit after five years of losses. This is one year ahead of a target imposed by the Ministry of Railways. The turnround has been achieved through major changes in the way the railway is managed and operated.

The late 1990s marked the start of major rail reform in China in line with the government's decision to switch from a centrally planned to a market economy. The need for rail reform was clear if rail was to survive and prosper in the new and rapidly changing economic environment. The swift development of air, road, and water transport led to the start of fierce competition with rail for the first time since the formation of the People's Republic in 1949. In 1994, the railway plunged into loss where it remained for the next five years.

More services were accelerated on October 1 1998 and the number of passenger trains being operated was increased by 14.6%. This alone required an investment of Yuan 6 billion ($US 725 million). As a result, 252 faster locomotives and 957 faster passenger coaches were put into service, and 27,000 existing coaches upgraded. Tracks were relaid at 1608 locations and repaired at another 8662 sites on several main lines. About 300 bridges on the three trunk lines were strengthened, 456 level crossings were replaced by bridges, and 1450km of lines passed for 140km/h operation were fenced.
source:english.people.com.cn

many pics cant display now.

Does anyone here have pictures of the train going from Shanghai to Hangzhou?? How much is the train ride?? How long does it take?? How fast is the train (speed)?? Thanks....:)

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/display1.asp?from1=Shanghai&to1=Hangzhou&Submit32=SUBMIT

basically the Z train is better than the T train, the T train is better than the K train, the K train is better than the no letter train, shanghai-hangzhou is short distance, so i am afriad there are no Z train running between the two cities. (Z train is for long-distance, non-stop only).

so there are no beds in the Bombardier trains?

btw Bombardier is Canadian, not French

国内首辆轻型吊轨磁悬浮验证车亮相[组图]
时间：2005 年05 月12 日 文章来源：人民网
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国内首辆轻型吊轨磁悬浮技术验证车亮相大连
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课题组首席科学家李岭群介绍轻型吊轨磁悬浮的技术特点
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记者纷纷试坐轻型吊轨磁悬浮技术验证车

大连磁谷科技研究所有限公司研制的暗轨磁悬浮技术验证车，暗轨磁悬浮设计时速110公里以下，适用于城内交通。列车完全可以在花园里运行。


今天，我国首辆拥有完全自主知识产权的重大科技攻关项目——“中华06号”轻型吊轨磁悬浮技术验证车在大连首次亮相，这是大连磁谷科技研究所有限公司继“中华01号”暗轨磁悬浮技术验证车成功运行后的又一最新成果。

课题组首席科学家李岭群介绍说，这种轻型吊轨磁悬浮结构受力简单，节省材料，减轻了路和车的重量，便于高速运行，大大地降低了运行成本，其复线每公里建设费造价约0.8亿元人民币，仅相当于国外先进技术的28%。此外，轻型吊轨磁悬浮列车安全性能也非常好。由于列车镶嵌在吊轨中，杜绝了脱轨、翻车，而采用 “4-2-1”运行控制法与“在线控制决策”技术专门设计，也基本杜绝了追尾、撞车。

据了解，这种轻型吊轨磁悬浮设计时速可达400公里，适用于城际之间的“人流”与“物流”投送市场，是专为大中型城市的区域经济圈设计的城际交通工具。(王幼华)

Translation:
New maglev makes debut in northeastern China
The newly-developed light maglev train "Zhonghua-06" based on the technology of suspended rail made debut in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on May 11.

The train is a significant project of which China has the indigenous intellectual property.

Li Lingqun, chief scientist of the research group, said that such a structure is simple in the forces received and is material saving. It reduces the weight of road and automobiles and can run at a high speed.

The cost for a two-way line is about RMB 80 million yuan per kilometer, only 28 percent of the currently world advanced technologies.

Moreover, the train features high degree of safety. Derailment and overturn can be avoided as the train is set in suspended track.

With a designed speed of 400 kilometers per hour, the train is an inter-city vehicle dedicated to economic zones in large and medium-sized cities.

Wow, that looks... interesting...

The concept sure is neat but those trains look a little small for people. Is that a prototype?

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200505/13/images/0512_C12.jpg
China's light maglev train "Zhonghua-06" made debut in Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province on May 11. The train is 9.6 meters long, 1.65 meters wide and 1.87 meters high. The designed speed is 400 kPH

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The driver's cabin in the Zhonghua-06 maglev.

Wow, that looks... interesting...

The concept sure is neat but those trains look a little small for people. Is that a prototype?
I guess so.

http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china-trains/display1.asp?from1=Shanghai&to1=Hangzhou&Submit32=SUBMIT

basically the Z train is better than the T train, the T train is better than the K train, the K train is better than the no letter train, shanghai-hangzhou is short distance, so i am afriad there are no Z train running between the two cities. (Z train is for long-distance, non-stop only).

Thanks for the recommendations........:)

Study shows new £16bn line could relieve transport chaos
Described as "flying on the ground", Shanghai's 270mph magnetic floating railway has impressed British ministers. But plans to build a London to Scotland line would cost at least £16bn, according to feasibility studies sanctioned by Downing Street.
Known as the Maglev (magnetic levitation) train, China's flagship transport system takes eight minutes to hurtle along a 19-mile track through the paddy fields surrounding Shanghai airport - a journey which takes up to an hour by car

The sleek white carriages, first of their kind in the world, are controlled by a magnetic charge which holds them 1cm above a metal track.
Tony Blair has held a Downing Street seminar to consider building a Maglev on a London-to-Glasgow route along the spine of Britain through Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh. His advisers say the project would pay huge environmental dividends as it would make domestic air travel virtually obsolete, with a trip from London to Newcastle taking just one hour 40 minutes.

The chancellor, Gordon Brown, rode Shanghai's Maglev in February. Backers of a British scheme want it to be a free-standing railway between the existing east and west coast mainlines to relieve chronic road and rail congestion forecast within10 years.

The German company behind Shanghai's Maglev, Transrapid International, has spent 18 months working on a "pre-feasibility" plan for Britain which has concluded a basic cost would be £20m a kilometre. The entire 500-mile proposed route would cost £16bn even before taking into account the purchase of land.

Jochen Kruse, Transrapid's project manager in Shanghai, said: "We've had discussions with No 10 - now we'll be going to the Department for Transport."

He said Britain's hilly terrain was ideal for the Maglev, which can be angled at a gradient of up to 10%, against the 4% for conventional rail. This means less investment in bridges and cuttings. Existing, but unused, tunnels through the Pennines have been identified for part of the route.

The Shanghai system has been open for 18 months and has carried more than 2 million people. But not everybody is impressed. Critics question the durability of the technology - one of the two tracks has been shut for long periods while engineers adjust troublesome cables carrying the electrical charge which sparks the train's magnetism.

Furthermore, the entire system is sinking into the Pudong, Shanghai's marshy outpost of land used as an economic boom zone. Special leeway has had to be built in to allow for sinkage of up to 5cm.

A prominent figure in Shanghai's business community said: "It cost an awful lot of money to put in and it's expensive to maintain. Most of the local Chinese people can't afford to ride on it."

At present, the Shanghai Maglev terminates on the outskirts of the city. It only operates between 9am and 5pm - even though many international flights arrive in the early morning. The journey is so short that it only hits its maximum speed for a few seconds before decelerating.

The Chinese government is considering an extension into the city and possibly further, to the neighbouring city of Hangzhou, in time for Shanghai's hosting of the World Expo in 2010.

The Maglev is attracting followers around the world: Germany wants one for an airport link in Munich. The US government is due to choose imminently between three Maglev schemes: a Baltimore to Washington railway, an airport link in Pittsburgh or a 31-mile track through the Nevada desert linking Las Vegas with casinos on the Californian border, which could be extended to Los Angeles.

Mr Kruse said a green light from Downing Street would enable Transrapid to come up with a detailed scheme in 18 months. But construction could take many years: "How long does it typically take to build such things in England? If you could import a thousand Chinese workers, it could be built in a year."

A Maglev network would improve on the dismal weather record of Britain's existing trains. The train's speed is sufficient to blow snow up to 20cm deep off the rails. Other peculiarly British hazards are unlikely to mount an obstacle. Mr Kruse said: "Leaves on the line? I really don't think that will be a problem."

Through air with the greatest of ease

Early on Saturday morning, a handful of elderly men were practising tai chi on a lawn outside Shanghai's Maglev station. Blithely ignoring the 270mph trains hurtling overhead, they were a rare reminder of traditional China.

The so-called floating railway is the crown jewel of Shanghai's economic boom. It cost £1.2bn and was built in 20 months.

Boarding a Maglev train for the 19-mile journey to Pudong airport, I settled into a yellow leather seat, watched over by attendants in airline-style uniforms.

Digital screens in every carriage allow passengers to keep tabs on how fast they are moving. Within seconds of departure, we were floating on a 1cm cushion of air at 100kmh and the carriages began to lean from side to side.

The "tilt" on Maglev trains is unnerving - they lean to an angle of 12 degrees, a third more than one of Virgin Trains' new Pendolinos. Travelling on a track on stilts above a road, passengers get a view of the sky through one window and the ground through the other.

After four minutes, we hit a peak speed of 431kmh (267mph) - more than twice as fast as a GNER inter-city 125. The speed flickered between 430-431kmh for about 30 seconds before gradually declining near the end of the seven-minute, 20-second journey.

Before arriving, I glimpsed inside the driver's cab where a bored-looking woman gazed at an electronic screen with her arms folded. The train's German designers said she was there on the insistence of the Chinese authorities; the technology drives itself, guided by electrically controlled magnetic fields.

A trickle of passengers, largely foreign, got off at the airport.

A Maglev ticket costs 50 yuan (£3.50). Most locals stick to the bus: it is only 15 yuan.

Related link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1500038,00.html#article_continue

Is this train from Germany? The color scheme is like the German flag

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v325/muchbetter/china%20railway/RAILWAY2/32_168.jpg

alstom was the manufacturer. is that french or german?

Alstom is french i think..

Can anybody dig photos and info of Chinese trains and railway lines, projects etc.? There are a few websites regarding this but it would be useful to have some stuff in one place here in SSC. I'm missing this topic in Chinese forums. Thanks!

I thought there already are several (or just one) thread about Chinese trains, railways and projects... etc.

世界上位置最高的西藏铁路已经完成了!

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Can someone post some of China's trains? I heard they have some pretty fast ones.

我省境内浙赣线铁路电气化改造将于今年7月底全线贯通

　　-预计今年10月浙赣线列车将带着“辫子”以200公里时速“贴地飞行”

　　-杭州到衢州、上海分别只要1.5小时

　　核心提示

　　昨天中午，记者在全新的诸暨站，看到工人们正争分夺秒地架设电线，为6月16日将开通的电气化铁路，接通新火车的“辫子”。

　　1937年9月26日，钱塘江大桥正式建成通车，从此一条以杭州为起点、湖南株州为终点，全长近1000公里的铁路大动脉全线贯通，这就是浙赣线。一晃70年过去了，老铁路借电气化改造焕发青春。

　　随着浙赣线铁路电气化改造完成，沪杭电气化铁路也将投入运营，届时杭州到株洲只要4.7小时，杭州到衢州只要1.5小时，杭州到上海不用90分钟。

　　70岁老路焕发青春

　　浙赣线刚“诞生”就成为长江以南最重要、最繁忙的东西向铁路大干线，成为东南沿海连接西南腹地的交通大动脉，并与京沪、京九、京广、焦柳等铁路，构成中国铁路的运输骨架，成为长三角与泛珠三角间最快捷的通道。

　　虽然浙赣线地位重要，但先天弱点制约着它的发展，因为铁路所经过的地区大多是丘陵地带，线路弯道多、坡度大，车速一直上不去。直到1997年全国铁路第五次提速前，浙赣线列车都不能打破“80公里”时速，货车甚至跑不到每小时60公里。全国铁路第五次提速后，浙赣线上的列车用上了动力强劲的东风—Ⅳ等内燃机车，时速最快能达到140公里。

　　70年的时光，当年从城市边缘穿越的铁路，早在城市化过程中，被城市包裹。有人形象地把浙赣线经过的城市比作“一条铁轨串起一串糖葫芦”。铁路将城市一分两半，严重制约城市的建设和发展。2003年12月，围绕铁路第六次大幅度提速而兴建的浙赣铁路电气化改造工程，在西施故里诸暨破土动工，也给沿线城市铁路外迁和车站搬迁创造了条件。根据上海铁路局浙赣电气化开通计划，浙江段新线将于5月25日至7月底陆续开通，浙赣线浙江段境内除萧山、金华两个大站之外，诸暨、浦江、义乌、龙游、衢州、江山等6大站都要搬迁新址营业。

　　杭州到衢州只需1.5小时

　　浙赣线电气化提速改造工程全部完成后，将有力拉动浙赣铁路沿线乃至我国东、中部地区经济发展，同时方便旅客出行。

　　按照时速、公里计算，电气化后，列车时速可以达到200公里，从杭州到衢州只需一个半小时左右，义乌到金华只需15分钟，株洲到杭州只需4.7小时，比改造前运行时间(10.5小时)缩短一半以上。

　　与此同时，浙赣线穿越了我省中、西部地区，铁路电气化后将加速带动地方经济发展。

杭州到上海不超90分钟

　　沪杭铁路全长202公里，是我省连接上海市、江苏省的重要通道，也是全国铁路规划“八纵八横”沪昆通道的组成部分。北接上海枢纽，与京沪铁路相连，南连杭州枢纽，与浙赣、萧甬、宣杭铁路相接，在华东铁路网中处于骨干地位，承担着上海铁路局1/3的客运量和1/4的货运量。

　　目前，杭州站到上海(梅陇站)行车里程168公里，目前最快的列车N524、N530、N528次需耗时1小时48分。按照铁道部的技术标准，电气化改造后铁路的设计时速将达到200公里，实际行驶速度受到中途站点停靠等因素的影响，预计到时候杭州到上海的时间将从现在的1小时48分缩短到90分钟以内。

　　坐“辫子列车”还得等上3个月

　　电气化线路开通后，是不是所有的火车马上要带着辫子跑？负责诸暨段施工的中铁二十四局有关负责人说，新的线路启用后，一开始在上面跑列车仍由柴油内燃机车牵引，因为线路要经过3个月的常规调试，同时还要实施电气化接触网立杆、架设等工程。真正带着辫子跑的新的车厢预计要到今年10月份才能正式上岗。

　　待电气化列车正式上岗后，铁路部门会进行岗位调整，逐步将老列车调到其他非电气化线路上去跑。

　　公铁竞争将加剧

　　电气化改造完成后，将大大缩短火车的运行时间，杭州到衢州只要1.5小时，杭州到上海不超过90分钟。专家分析，铁路中短途提速，将大大加剧同线公铁竞争，甚至对短途航线也带来新竞争。

　　杭州长运集团相关负责人表示，电气化改造后，杭州到上海只提速了不到20分钟，且目的地仍为梅陇。公路到上海的时间大约两小时左右，但可到上海不同车站，选择余地大，同线竞争公路仍有一定的优势。杭州到衢州目前公路需要3小时左右，虽然比提速后的铁路慢，但因为电气化改造后，火车票价格仍没有确定，因此竞争谁更有利还很难下定论。

　　该负责人同时表示，公路发车的密度远高于铁路，旅客出行的自由度更大。同时选择公路出行和铁路出行的旅游群相对固定，不会在电气化开通后出现大量流动的情况。

新型“辫子列车”很豪华

　　今年10月，电气化铁路投入运营后，一批新型提速列车将逐步替代老列车。铁路专家介绍，新型列车要比原来的豪华，内部各种设施更加人性化。比如连接各车厢的门全部是新式的触摸式车门，只需用手轻轻一碰，车门就会自动打开，人通过10秒钟后自动关闭。车内饮水机的高度更加适合乘客取水，车厢内安装了烟雾报警器，软卧包间里每个床铺上配备了闭路电视。新的提速列车将增加一个集便器，即使列车到站，旅客依然可以使用卫生间。

　　带着辫子行走的铁路虽然跑得快，但你在乘坐时，安全问题千万不可小觑！电气化铁路是以强大的电力为动力，电力接触网及附属部件，通常都带有2.5万伏以上的高压电。上海铁路局前天向社会发出公告，提醒沿线群众及旅客必须要遵守相关规定，有安全保护意识。

●不得破坏、攀越栅栏，在电气化铁路上行走

　　电力接触网设置在铁路线路上方，在接触网各导线及其相连接部件两米范围内，通常都有强大的电磁场，由于风、雨雪、其他外界条件的变化，都会危及行人安全，尤其行人带着物件(如雨伞、木棒等高长物件)及下大雨，水流成线，就会发生触电伤人。此外，电力机车速度快，声音小，行人不易察觉，容易造成行人伤亡事故。

　　●不得在高架公路立交桥以及隧道两端的平台上玩耍、逗留，更不准向下倒水和乱扔杂物

　　电力接触网是垂挂在立交桥下面和隧道顶端，向下倒的水流必然导电，尤其是小孩不能用玩具向下喷水，也不能向下小便或用竹竿、绳索等向下接近、碰挂接触网导线，避免触电伤人。

　　●不得在铁路两旁的山坡、路堑上放牧或砍树

　　因为牲畜、树、草碰触接触网，都会扩大导电范围，引发事故。牲畜等横过铁路时，看护人员持有的长鞭、竹竿等高长物件，应保持水平状态通过，严禁挥动。

　　●不准登上机车车辆顶部

　　在电气化区段内，任何人不准登上机车车辆顶部或翻越车顶通过线路。在旅客站台、行人较多的电气化区段所有接触网支柱应悬挂或涂有“禁止攀登”、“有电危险”等警告牌。禁止在支柱上搭挂衣物、攀登支柱或在支柱旁休息。

　　京沪电气铁路7月1日开通

　　10小时内跑完全程

　　全长1453公里的京沪铁路的电气化改造主体工程日前完工，预计6月15日进行试通电调试，7月1日正式投入运营。改造后的电气化京沪铁路列车时速将达到200公里，北京到上海的时间有望缩短到10小时内。

　　京沪铁路是我国铁路的主动脉，是“八纵八横”铁路网中的骨干线路，一直是运输最繁忙、能力最紧张的干线。沿途跨越北京、天津、济南、合肥、南京、上海等大城市及河北、山东、安徽、江苏四省，沿线人口占全国人口的四分之一以上，运输密度是全国铁路平均数的4倍，每天对开的客货列车多达240列。

昨天上午，国内现代化水平最高的电气化铁路——浙赣铁路顺利实现了新线和老线的对接，浙赣电气化铁路全线贯通运行。我省境内配合浙赣线铁路电气化改造工程新建的7个新站，义乌、义乌西、诸暨、诸暨东、浦江、湄池、牌头站正式投入使用。

　　浙赣线完成新老线交接
　　昨天早上6点，记者赶到萧山白鹿塘，浙赣铁路电气化改造建设工地上早已热火朝天，300余名身披黄色防护背心的铁路工人就像五线谱的音符，扛着工具活跃在两条铁路线间，其中下行线已经被分割成了两段，上行线还在等待最后一趟班车。

　　早上7点02分，贵阳到杭州的1516次拉响了汽笛，当列车从道口呼啸而过，铁路工人立即用千斤顶将老铁轨顶离路基，经过切割、钻洞、固定，四股铁轨拨移到新的铁路基上。经过近3个小时的紧张施工，昨天上午10点18分，33081货物列车顺利通过萧山白鹿塘站，浙赣铁路顺利实现新线和老线的对接，并全线建成贯通投入运行。

　　今天浙赣线老道口将和老线路一起被拆除，浙赣线所前道口的老工人沈渭福百感交集：“平日里一天有上百趟车要经过道口，大家忙得连饭也顾不上吃。如今新铁路不需要道口了，心里还真有点舍不得。”昨天杭州工务段许多老职工都赶到了白鹿塘，就为了能再最后看一眼这些朝夕相处的“铁哥们”。

　　细节均为“电气化”保驾护航
　　杭州工务段萧西领工区党支部书记童传法告诉记者，电气化铁路不但外表引人注目，功能也比老线路更具人性化，任何一个小细节都是为列车全线提速保驾护航。

　　踩在电气化铁路上，厚实的混凝土枕比老线路上的水泥枕足足宽了10多厘米，重量也从原来的265公斤加重到350公斤，电气化铁路的路基比老线路要高出一截，铁轨两边的道碴也由普通的石头道碴改成了能承受住列车巨大冲击力的花岗岩道碴。据介绍，原本铁路转弯处的半径大多在300米左右，电气化铁路转弯处半径增长到了1000米到2000多米，这样列车转弯不需要大幅度减速，保证全线快速运行。此外固定枕轨和钢轨已经改成直接卡口(原先为镙钉镙帽)，可尽量避免发生钢轨松动。

　　“电气化铁路采用超长无缝钢轨，从萧山白鹿塘到金华塘雅134公里，只有一根完整的钢轨(白鹿塘目前暂用有缝的老钢轨)。”童传法说，无缝钢轨使列车更稳定，乘客在车上坐上百公里，也没有以前坐火车时“哐当哐当”的震动。

　　7个新站投入使用
　　经过电气化改造，浙赣铁路浙江段70%以上为新建线路，使得浙赣新线与原老线相比，缩短了近16公里。例如杭州市境内新建了目前我国东南部地区最长的铁路桥——长达近10公里的临浦特大桥，义乌境内有最长的上金隧道(4.5公里)。随着浙赣电气化铁路全线贯通运行，昨天新建成的义乌、义乌西、诸暨、诸暨东、浦江、湄池、牌头站正式投入使用(龙游、江山、衢州站已经提前使用)，同时关撤了临浦、浦阳等14个区间车站。

　　浙赣电气化改造工程完工后，列车运行时速将由改造前的90公里增至目前的120公里，并计划在10月前完成电气化接触网立柱、挂网等后续工程，为10月全线提速到200公里作准备。

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老乡哪个连像样的图都恩有:ohno:

金温铁路呢?温州一向是火车跑得没有汽车快,最需要提速

下一步 築滇藏鐵路

【聯合新聞網 大陸新聞中心／綜合報導】







中共鐵道部副部長孫永福接受鳳凰衛視採訪時表示，繼青藏鐵路後，中共還將興建滇藏鐵路，為西藏開通西南出海口，進一步推動西藏經濟的快速發展。

如果滇藏鐵路經評估可行，將是繼青藏鐵路另一項浩大工程。預計滇藏線將自拉薩延伸線的林芝往東到芒康，再往南進入雲南經麗江抵大理，與甫完工的昆明到大理鐵路接軌。滇藏鐵路全長與青藏鐵路相當，同樣行經地形複雜的大山、峽谷，橫跨怒江、瀾滄江、金沙江。

昆明計畫在十年內打造成東南亞的國際大通道，一旦西藏鐵路連通昆明，西藏經濟將更能快速發展。

“星星之火，可以燎原”

http://www.sasac.gov.cn/zyqy/gcjz/200607240149.htm

土耳其安—伊高速铁路二期工程二标段合同签约

中国通用技术集团所属中国机械进出口（集团）有限公司和中国铁道建筑总公司所属中国土木工程集团公司及土耳其两家公司的联合体共同开发的土耳其安卡拉—伊斯坦布尔高速铁路二期工程项目第二标段合同日前草签，合同金额为6.1亿美元。

土耳其安伊高铁项目总长158公里，合同总金额约12.7亿美元，是目前我国企业开发的最大的海外铁路工程项目，受到两国政府的高度重视。

http://www.saietc.org/news/news_detail.asp?id=1892

中铁建和中机公司联营体获土耳其铁路项目

日前，土耳其国家铁路总局正式对外宣布：中国土木工程集团公司代表的中国铁道建筑总公司（CRCC）和中国机械进出口（集团）有限公司（CMC）以及另两家土耳其公司组成的联合体中标“安卡拉－伊斯坦布尔高速铁路二期”两个标段工程项目。
项目总金额12.7亿美元（第一标段6.6亿美元，第二标段6.1亿美元），是中国公司迄今为止竞争中标的最大的国际工程总承包项目。铁路全长158公里，设计时速250公里全部采用欧洲标准。来自德国、日本、西班牙、意大利等国的知名公司也参加了竞标。

http://news.sohu.com/20060802/n244572724.shtml

巴基斯坦新铁路有望直通中国

　　巴总统表示，愿为中国西部提供出海通道，巴基斯坦可成为中国“能源和经贸走廊”

　　今年2月巴基斯坦总统穆沙拉夫访华时，“能源走廊”是他挂在嘴边最多的词，5个月后，中国青藏铁路的通车似乎让他感觉到“能源走廊”的远景变得更近了一些。目前，巴基斯坦正加速铁路网络建设，其中最为重要的是修建铁路直通中国，甚至同青藏铁路连接。

　　从赫韦利扬到中国喀什

　　7月29日，伊斯兰堡大雨倾盆，巴基斯坦总统穆沙拉夫却冒雨来到巴铁路客车厂，主持了巴基斯坦高速客车车间落成仪式。




　　作为第一位亲自访问铁路机车厂的巴基斯坦国家元首，穆沙拉夫在他题为《现代化和巴基斯坦铁路的未来计划》的演讲里，反复强调了现代交通基础设施、尤其是铁路网络的重要性，显示出巴基斯坦政府对铁路前所未有的重视。

　　在这项铁路总体规划中，最引人注目的是靠近中巴边境的铁路规划。

　　目前，穆沙拉夫已经批准了一条从巴基斯坦赫韦利扬到通往中国喀什的铁路计划。虽然中巴两国已有喀喇昆仑公路连接，并在喀什和巴境内的吉尔吉特之间开通跨境公路客运。但是与铁路相比，公路运载量小、成本高，而且安全系数不如铁路。

　　自今年7月1日中国青藏铁路通车以后，许多巴基斯坦人开始议论修建一条铁路连接本国和青藏铁路。

　　这个大胆的想法已经得到巴基斯坦高层的肯定，巴总统穆沙拉夫7月初来到距离巴中边界约80公里的巴基斯坦苏斯特口岸，为巴中两国合建的苏斯特陆路口岸揭幕时说，巴基斯坦所处的地缘位置可以为中国的西部地区提供方便的出海通道，成为中国的“能源和经贸走廊”，“当年中巴两国建设者开通的喀喇昆仑公路堪称世界第八大奇迹，难道今后我们不能修建通过红其拉甫山口的中巴喀喇昆仑铁路和中巴石油管线，从而创造世界第九、第十大奇迹吗？”

　　巴方还表示，中国西北地区具有很大潜力，将成为连接中巴两国和中亚地区的经贸中心，而中巴铁路连接将进一步密切中巴政治和经贸关系，并对周边地区产生深远影响。

　　巴邀中方实施可行性研究

　　在不到一个月的时间里，巴方领导人在不同场合均表示出与中国合作修建跨境铁路的意愿，足见其热切程度。

　　据巴基斯坦媒体报道，巴方已经邀请中方派专家对从中国边境城市喀什到巴境内苏斯特口岸的铁路建设的有关技术和资金问题开展可行性研究，讨论建设该铁路的技术和资金问题。

　　中国现代国际问题研究所专家付小强认为，这条铁路如果建成，肯定为中巴双方在双边和地区范围内提供大量的商贸机会，但是从目前来看，由于中巴边境双边都缺少可供连通的国内铁路，因此，跨境铁路从计划到成为现实可能还需经过相当长的时间。

　　青藏铁路刺激巴铁路建设

　　巴基斯坦的铁路网自1861年开始运作，目前每年载运近7000万人次旅客，但设备落后、线路少、速度慢，铁路运输、尤其是铁路客运并不发达。除了人们对铁路诸多抱怨，政府多年来似乎也一直把交通基础建设的重心放在公路上。

　　不过，自今年以来，巴基斯坦政府内部关于建设铁路网络的讨论却骤然热烈起来。中国现代国际问题研究所南亚问题专家付小强说，中国青藏铁路的修建成功推了巴政府一把，“巴基斯坦政府在青藏铁路建成后表现得更积极”，他认为，在中国成功经验的启示下，巴方近来提出诸多设想，希望通过铁路建设吸引更多的注意力和投资。

　　根据目前巴基斯坦政府制定的计划，巴政府将斥资94亿卢比，在2007年12月31日以前完成2083公里铁路的改造。

　　巴大量订购中国制铁路机车

　　另据巴基斯坦媒体报道，巴基斯坦铁路公司近来从中国订购了69辆铁路机车，总价值约为58.9亿卢比。其中33辆现在已经在巴基斯坦铁路机客车厂装配完成，明年中方还将向巴方交货20辆。此外，24辆中国制造的铁路机车现在已经在巴基斯坦的铁轨上运行。

　　巴基斯坦铁路公司计划生产容量更大的列车货车车厢，以提高货运能力。目前有1300台新型货车车厢正在穆加尔普拉车辆厂组装。此外，巴基斯坦铁路公司还购入了175辆全新设计的铁路客车，总价值达77.76亿卢比，其中145辆已经组装完毕，剩余的几十辆正在组装中。

　　而巴基斯坦铁路部门指出，7月29日落成的高速客车车间标志着巴基斯坦铁路公司开始朝着自力更生和现代化的方向前进了一大步，巴基斯坦列车机车生产和改造能力由此从每年150辆增加到了225辆。（ 马晶 ）

　　■新规划

　　巴计划数年内开通高速列车

　　法德等国已开始与巴铁路部门接触

　　7月28日，穆沙拉夫批准了一项规模宏大的铁路建设计划。根据这项连通8个巴基斯坦大城市的交通计划，巴基斯坦将在未来数年中修建拉瓦尔品第到拉合尔、海德拉巴到卡拉奇、穆尔坦到费萨拉巴德以及费萨拉巴德到拉合尔之间修建高速铁路、开通子弹头列车。

　　这条拟议中的巴基斯坦高速铁路一旦建成，就将连接起距离伊斯兰堡仅24公里的姐妹城拉瓦尔品第、东部重镇、巴基斯坦第二大城市拉合尔以及位于南部出海口的巴最大城市和商业中心卡拉奇。这条铁路建成后，最高时速可以达到每小时250公里。其中，在沙赫达拉到拉瓦尔品第之间铺设的全长290公里新铁路基本为直线，全程只需90分钟。而从拉瓦尔品第到拉合尔，最快只需要1小时15分中。

　　巴基斯坦铁道部长拉希德·艾哈迈德表示，这条铁路将在巴已有铁路的沿线铺设，为了保证施工不受干扰，工地将完全封闭。

　　据巴基斯坦媒体报道，巴拟修“子弹头”列车线路的消息7月初传出后，法、德等国家已经开始与巴铁路部门展开接触。据称，可行性研究将在4个月内完成。穆沙拉夫表示，如果铁路建成，将亲自为子弹头列车举行发车仪式。（ 马晶 ）

　　■大战略

　　铁路建设促成区域黄金走廊

　　将地缘优势转化为经济优势提升巴国地位

　　巴基斯坦已经制定出了更为宏伟的铁路远景规划蓝图。目标是成为南亚区域的贸易和能源“走廊”。

　　根据这些规划，巴基斯坦铁路部门打算用铁路把西部城市基达与瓜德尔港连接起来。在这条铁路建成并投入使用后，巴基斯坦打算在第二阶段计划中将其进一步延伸至查曼和阿富汗南部重镇坎大哈。

　　穆沙拉夫说，巴基斯坦的目标是成为地区国家的贸易和能源走廊，而这一点，必须通过建设更加有效率的交通网络、尤其是铁路网络来实现。

　　7月28日，巴基斯坦总理阿齐兹召开会议，再次评估了巴基斯坦作为地区能源、交通和工业走廊、扼守连接中东、中亚、东亚、南亚和东南亚的重要地理位置。穆沙拉夫则强调，要尽快将巴基斯坦的地缘战略重要性转化为经济机会。

　　穆沙拉夫特别提到了瓜德尔港。瓜德尔港位于阿拉伯海海岸，属深水港，位于欧洲、非洲和中东地区与远东地区海上交通运输的枢纽地段。在巴基斯坦的铁路规划中，瓜德尔港也正是未来巴铁路网南端连接印度洋的重要入海口。一旦该铁路网北端连接中亚、东亚和中东的通道打通，讨论了40年的泛亚铁路网计划就可再度激活。而巴基斯坦就将成为把欧亚两大洲连为一体的“黄金走廊”。（ 马晶 ）

German firm wins Pak-China rail track contract: Rashid

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LAHORE: A German firm has won contract for laying railway track from Pakistan to China, Pakistan’s railway minister here said.

Federal Minister for Railways Shaikh Rashid Ahmed addressing a press conference on Friday said that prominent firms from Australia, Malaysia and Germany participated in the bidding. German bidder offered lowest rates and won the tender for laying railway track from Havelian to Sust. The project will be completed with Rs 72 million cost.

Railways minister said that Lahore to Islamabad 250 kilometers’ railway line would be converted into double track for plying a fast train. Tenders being launched for the project, which will be funded by the Asian Development Bank, he said.

Rashid further said that a tourist train project was also in the pipeline, which is presently in the planning stage.

Chief Minister of Punjab will inaugurate Lahore to Karachi high-speed Sindh Express on July 24 at 7:00 PM, railway minister further announced.

A good visual.

The bold red lines stand for the new express passenger railroads that will be completed before 2020. According to the plan, China will have 100,000KM railroads before 2020, among which 12,000km are express passenger railroads, 50,000km are double-track railroads and 50, 000km will be electricified.

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I am a student who wants to write a master thesis concerning the railway protection movements at the end of the Qing dynasty, and more in particular about the Sichuan railway protection league (四川保路同志会). For some information about this phenomenon I refer you to the Chinese wikipedia article (http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BF%9D%E8%B7%AF%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8) or this article from the Tibetan bulletin written in English (http://www.tibet.net/en/tibbul/2001/0107/focus.html) which deals with it as well.
Unfortunately, until now I haven 't been able to find a great deal of information on this topic. At the most a small chapter in books which give a general outline of the origin of these movements.
I was wondering if anyone knows where to find books or articles dedicated to these events, or at least deal with it on a broad basis. Articles in Chinese would be fine as well.
I could also use some references to books or articles dealing with railway imperialism.
:wave:

Rail operator to buy Chinese trains
By Robert Wright, Transport Correspondent

Published: April 14 2007 03:00 | Last updated: April 14 2007 03:00

China is set to supply new trains to Europe for the first time since it opened its economy to the west. Grand Central, a small British train operator, has said it is preparing to order three Chinese-built high-speed trains for a new service between London and Sunderland.

Grand Central's announcement yesterday follows years of efforts by Chinese manufacturers to break into the world's most important passenger train market and is likely to increase concern among established European manufacturers about their ability to compete withlower-cost Chinese products.


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its been posted.

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Experts to debate third Euro-Asia rail link
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-10-27 09:41


A seminar will be held in Kunming on Thursday to discuss the development of an intercontinental rail link between South China and Europe.

The proposed route will run from Shenzhen in Guangdong to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, according to the draft plan.

The line will travel through 21 countries including Myanmar, India and Turkey, and cover more than 15,150 km, cutting some 3,000 km off the journey between the two ports by sea.

If constructed, the railway will be the third linking Asia and Europe.

The seminar, to be held in the Yunnan capital, has been co-organized by the Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences and the provincial development and reform commission.

Ren Jia, the academy's deputy director, said: "The idea to build such a rail link was first proposed in the 1990s, but this will be the first time a full-scale seminar has been held to discuss the subject."

Currently, there are two cross-continental railways: The Euro-Asian rail link, which runs 13,000 km from Vladivostok in Russia to Rotterdam, and the 10,900-km New Euro-Asian Continental Bridge, which runs from Lianyungang in Jiangsu Province to Rotterdam.

The proposed third route will further boost the already flourishing trade ties between China and Europe and Central Asian countries, experts said.

The value of Sino-EU trade exceeded $256 billion in the first three quarters of the year, up 27.8 percent year on year.

The railway will also provide an impetus for the development of hinterland provinces in the southwest of the country, Ren said.

Yunnan, in particular, will benefit from unprecedented development opportunities as the hub for such a key rail link, he said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-10/27/content_6211171.htm

Quake-damaged railway reopens

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A train carrying relief goods passes yesterday through the No. 109 tunnel which was blocked when a fuel train ran into an earthquake rockslide.

2008-5-25
THE full line of the quake-damaged Baoji-Chengdu railway re-opened to traffic yesterday after 283 hours of closure, allowing transport of disaster relief goods to China's quake devastated Sichuan Province.

No. 977 train carrying urgently needed relief goods of tents and medicines passed through No. 109 tunnel at 9:53am yesterday where a 40-car freight train had been derailed, paralyzing the railway in the May 12 earthquake.

THE railway, linking Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan, with Baoji city in neighboring Shaanxi Province, is a key north-south route in west China.

THE southern section of the railway re-opened on Friday after workers finished repairs on a key bridge that was damaged by the 8.0-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter in Wenchuan County.

THE northern part of the railway remained blocked due to the difficulties in removing the derailed wagons, which carried gasoline, from the damaged tunnel.

For the past 12 days of quake recovery operations, rescuers and relief goods had to be transported into the mountainous quake zone by airlift or through frequently disrupted road links because of the closure of the damaged railway.

More than 2,200 railway workers, soldiers and policemen risked their lives and worked around-the-clock on repairing the railway.

It was reopened seven days earlier than the repair plan, according to railway officials in charge of the work.

Lu Chunfang, vice minister of railways and commander of the repair operation, shed tears at the re-opening of the tunnel.

"We stressed the importance of safety work. However, we all knew the work was extremely dangerous," he told the press.

He said one railway worker died and many others were injured in the repair work.

THE repair worker named Huang Junke was killed by a falling rock which hit his head. Huang was a 37-year-old worker from the China Railway Electrification Group.

Twelve tanks of gasoline on the derailed train had to be destroyed. Fire in the tunnel section in Huixian County, Gansu Province, burned for about 40 hours before it was put out on May 14.

More than 1,600 villagers living near the tunnel were evacuated due to concerns of the dangers of fire and poisonous gas.

Heat from the tunnel could be felt 100 meters away, said villagers.

Firefighters used more than 20,000 sandbags and hundreds of wet quilts to cover the north exit and tunnel vents to starve the fire of oxygen.

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Deutsche Bahn to launch direct China-to-Germany cargo trains within three months

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FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Deutsche Bahn AG. is set to open a direct cargo train link between China and Germany within three months, Die Welt reported, citing Manfred Michel of China United International Railway Container Transport (CUIRC), the company operating the trains.

Deutsche Bahn owns an 8 percent stake in CUIRC.

The trains will take 15 days to travel the 9,850 km between Berlin and Beijing. The more expensive air cargo takes two to three days between Germany and China, while sea freight takes around 35 days.

'The cargo trains can't compete with sea freight, but for express goods or oversize volumes they do make sense,' said Norbert Bensel, head of Deutsche Bahn's logistic operations.

The German rail operator is set to be partially privatised by the end of the year.

It is in talks with Russian railways RZD to take stakes in each other. RZD is Deutsche Bahn's main partner for the inter-continental connection between China and Germany.

Deutsche Bahn initially expects annual sales of between 10 million and 20 million euros from the project.

Rail travelers to hit 283m this summer

By Xin Dingding (China Daily)
Updated: 2008-06-17 10:02

China's railways will handle more than 4.5 million people a day in July and August, the Ministry of Railways has said.

The two summer months are a traditionally popular period for rail travel, due to the school holidays. But the addition of the Beijing Olympics will boost the numbers significantly, it said.

About 283 million people are expected to travel by rail during the 62 days, up 9.8 percent on the same period last year, it said.

Ministry spokesman Wang Yongping said: "The biggest increase in passenger numbers will be between Beijing and the five other Olympic host cities, especially Tianjin and Shanghai."

The Olympic soccer competition, for example, will be held in Tianjin, Shenyang, and Qinhuangdao, so a lot of people, including the players, will have to travel a lot, Wang said.

Wang Bin, an official with the ministry's news office, said: "Rail is a good option if air travel is hindered due to bad weather."

To help meet the increased demand, the ministry plans to open special ticket windows at major railway stations, which will sell tickets only to those cities, spokesman Wang said.

An extra 57 mid-to-long distance trains will be added as a temporary measure, he said.

Plans to cope with the increased number of air travelers have been in place for some time.

In July 2005, the Civil Aviation Administration issued a plan to upgrade airport facilities at Olympic host cities ahead of the Games.

Seven major airports and 10 alternatives are involved in the plan, and work has already been completed at Beijing Capital International and Shanghai Pudong.

Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20080619/0004230fa7cc09c400fe04.jpgWorkers prepare to install the last section of the Ganhe Super Bridge along the Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail in Xianning, Hubei province on June 18, 2008. The 3.42 km-long Ganhe Super Bridge is the most difficult part of the railway construction project. With an investment of 108 billion yuan ($15.69 billion), the 968-km Wuhan-Guangzhou railway, which is expected to be completed in 2010, can allow trains to run at speed of 350 km per hour. The train travel time between the two cities will be cut to only 4 hours from more than 11 hours currently. [Xinhua]


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The last 900-ton section is installed to connect the Ganhe Super Bridge along the Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail in Xianning, Hubei province on June 18, 2008. The 3.42 km-long Ganhe Super Bridge is the most difficult part of the railway construction project. With an investment of 108 billion yuan ($15.69 billion), the 968-km Wuhan-Guangzhou railway, which is expected to be completed in 2010, can allow trains to run at speed of 350 km per hour. The train travel time between the two cities will be cut to only 4 hours from more than 11 hours currently. [Xinhua]


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Workers are busy planting trees and grass along the Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail in Xianning, Hubei province on June 18, 2008. With an investment of 108 billion yuan ($15.69 billion), the 968-km Wuhan-Guangzhou railway, which is expected to be completed in 2010, can allow trains to run at speed of 350 km per hour. The train travel time between the two cities will be cut to only 4 hours from more than 11 hours currently. [Xinhua]

China railways to raise 10b yuan on bond market

Updated: 2008-06-20 10:16

China's Ministry of Railways would raise 10 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) in the inter-bank bond market by issuing one-year bills, a ministry spokesman said on Thursday.

The ministry invited tenders for 7.5 billion yuan worth of such bills in the inter-bank market on Thursday, with a bidding yield rate range of 4.65 percent to 4.75 percent, said spokesman Wang Yongping.

The other 2.5 billion yuan worth of bonds would be sold privately. No information on the purchaser was released.

"The capital raised would be mainly used to buy rolling stock and facilitate fund flow in rail construction and operation," said Wang.

Subscriptions from 44 institutions totaled 305 billion yuan, which was 40.7 times the bills' value, a record high in the inter-bank market.

Wang said winners offered the lower limit of the yield rate but he didn't disclose the final result.

It was the first time the ministry had adopted such a debt-financing option since the central bank allowed companies to issue bills with a maturity of one year or less in the inter-bank market in 2005.

By the end of last year, 316 firms had issued 769.3 billion yuan worth of such paper, according to the People's Bank of China.

China plans to extend its total operating railway system to 100,000 kilometers by 2020 from 76,600 km at the end of 2006, which will cost an estimated 2 trillion yuan.

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Chinese insurers to invest $2.35 bln in Beijing-Shanghai express railway


www.chinaview.cn 2008-06-21 14:31:36

BEIJING, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Four of China's insurance companies have been given green light by the country's insurance regulator to invest 16 billion yuan (2.35 bln U.S. dollars) in the Beijing-Shanghai express railway.

Sources from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) said that four asset management companies under the Ping'an Insurance, Pacific Insurance, Taikang Life and Taiping Life will jointly set up a Beijing-Shanghai express railway equity investment project to raise the planned amount of capital.

In addition to the four insurers, the China Reinsurance (Group) Company, Generali China Life Insurance Company and PICC will also act as partakers and beneficiaries of the project, with the China Construction Bank as the trustee and the China Development Bank as an independent supervisor.

The CIRC demanded all parties involved in the project to strictly abide by related laws and regulations and prevent credit, operation, moral and legal risks. It also requested the project to submit timely report on its operation or events of significance.

On Dec. 27, 2007, the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway Co. Ltd was unveiled in Beijing for the construction of the 1,318-km high-speed railway between China's top two cities.

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New Beijing-Tianjing train sets record

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06-27-2008 14:42

A new Beijing-Tianjin suburban railway line was put through its paces on Tuesday. A China-made high-speed train was tested on the new rail line, hitting a record speed of 394.5 kilometers an hour.

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A CRH3 train in Beijing Railway Station South

It took only five minutes for the train to go from zero to 300 kilometers an hour. The express hit a maximum speed of 394.5 kilometers per hour during the test, setting a world speed record for railway transport.

Beijing and Tianjin are 120 kilometers apart, and the train finished the journey in only 25 minutes and 20 seconds.

The train runs smoothly, so that passengers don't need to wear safety belts.

China developed the technology for high-speed trains with speeds of 200 kilometers an hour in 2004. Then the country developed its own trains with speeds of 300 kilometers and 350 kilometers per hour, becoming one of the few countries to have mastered the technology.

The Beijing-Tianjin inter-city express line is scheduled to open on August 1st, ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games.

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It took only five minutes for the train to go from zero to 300 kilometers an hour. The express hit a maximum speed of 394.5 kilometers per hour during the test, setting a world speed record for railway transport.

Why is this being described as a world speed record for railway transport when last year a French TGV reached a speed of 574.8 km/h?

Why is this being described as a world speed record for railway transport when last year a French TGV reached a speed of 574.8 km/h?

I think they meant one of the records.

China sets up coordination group for high-speed train innovation


www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-03

　BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- China has set up an inter-agency coordination group to enhance its ability to develop an advanced and safe high-speed rail system.

The Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) website, www.most.gov.cn, on Thursday released the grouping of MOST and the Ministry of Railways (MOR) to coordinate planning, research and development, industrial manufacturing and equipment upgrades in the country's high-speed rail sector.

MOST Minister Wan Gang, a former Audi chief technologist for hybrid vehicles, and MOR Minister Liu Zhijun co-chair the group.

MOR has tested the country's first high-speed railway connecting Beijing and Tianjin since the end of May, with an average speed of 300 km per hour. Last week, President Hu Jintao test rode the train, which covered 120 km within 30 minutes.

MOR promised to make sure safety and timeliness in operating the service between the capital and Tianjin, a co-host city for the upcoming Beijing Olympics in August.

On Tuesday, the country started to build its second inter-city high-speed rail line linking Nanjing and Shanghai, one of the most important business hubs in the Asia Pacific region. The 300-km line was estimated to cost 39.45 billion yuan (5.7 billion U.S. dollars) and would be completed in four years.

The high-ranking coordination group was established largely with an eye on clearing technological obstacles to build a high-speed trunk line between Beijing and Shanghai.

All key decision makers from the two ministries have joined the group, which also comprises 18 leading railway technologists. Thirteen academics from both the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) were invited to give advice to the decision makers on key issues.

The two ministries contracted a few research institutes and state-owned companies to develop the new-generation train, which boasts an average speed of 350 km per hour. The homegrown technologies, not only for train coaches but also for reliable railway systems, were expected to compete with the world's most cutting-edge know-how.

China previously contacted with German, French and Japanese high-speed train vendors to explore possibilities to introduce foreign-developed high-speed railway systems in the country. However, it was now resolute to build the network with its own proprietary technologies.

As an alternative, China had even built the world's first commercial maglev line, based on Siemens technology linking Pudongto the Shanghai Airport.

Among the 18,000 km of newly-built passenger railroads planned toward 2020, most were high-speed lines. The first commercial operation of the China High-speed Railway (CHR) would start before the opening of the Olympics on Aug. 8.

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China starts work on Shanghai-Nanjing high-speed rail

2008-07-02

China broke ground on Tuesday for a 300 km high-speed passenger rail line between Shanghai and Nanjing, two cities in the populous, affluent Yangtze River Delta region of east China.

The new line, costing 39.45 billion yuan ($5.7 billion), is to be completed in four years.

It will run around the clock and offer services at three-minute intervals during peak hours. It will cut the travel time from two hours to 72 minutes.

"The new line is expected to boost the economy of the cities along it," said an unidentified railway official.

The route will have 21 stations and is forecast to carry up to 26.35 million people by 2020 and 38.44 million by 2030.

The delta area, one of the country's most economically robust, currently contributes more than 20 percent of the national gross domestic product.


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It's a super-fast track for city-Hangzhou line

2008-7-16

IMAGINE traveling by rail between Shanghai and Hangzhou in just over 30 minutes ... this is no dream, as the wheels are in motion.

Construction of the high-speed link between the two cities will start next year, the Hangzhou-based Metropolis Express reported yesterday, citing the Ministry of Railways.

The 158-kilometer line, which would start at the Hangzhou Eastern Railway Station in the provincial capital of Zhejiang and end in Shanghai's Hongqiao International Airport area, would reduce traveling time by nearly 90 minutes.

Trains would travel up to 300 kilometers an hour on the 27.6-billion-yuan (US$4.03-billion) line.

There would be five stops along the line at stations in Zhejiang's Yuhang, Tongxiang and Jiaxing cities and at Shanghai's Songjiang District and Fengjing Town.

The report did not say when construction would be completed.

The Shanghai-Hangzhou link would connect to the Shanghai-Beijing high-speed railway at Shanghai's Hongqiao Transport Hub and passengers could also transfer to the Hangzhou-Ningbo railway link at the Hangzhou Eastern Station.

The Hongqiao Transport Hub will serve as a transfer station for the city's Hongqiao International Airport, a Maglev station, at least three Metro stations and bus stations.

China started building its first high-speed rail link, the Shanghai-Beijing line, on April 18. Travel on this link will take under five hours, seven hours off the present time.

The new Shanghai-Beijing rail link, scheduled for completion in five years, is the biggest construction investment since the foundation of the People's Republic of China.

Trains will travel up to 350kmh on the 1,318-kilometer line, which will be the fastest high-speed railway in the world.

Twenty-one stations will be built along the route that runs across Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu provinces and ends in Shanghai's Hongqiao airport area.

The railway will connect China's Circum-Bohai Sea Region and the Yangtze Delta Region, which covers 6.5 percent of the country's territory and a quarter of the population.

China also plans to start construction on the 42-billion-yuan Nanjing-Hangzhou intercity railway this year, which will reduce traveling time from Shanghai to Ningbo to 90 minutes from 3 1/2 hours.

In March, the country's economic planning authority approved a 559-kilometer, high-speed railway linking Nanning City in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Guangzhou City in Guangdong Province.

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^^ waiting for 3-4 years, the high speed rail will be everywhere around China.

China Railway Group wins contracts worth 1.2 billion dollars

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SHANGHAI (AFP) — China Railway Group, the nation's largest railway construction firm, said Tuesday it had won two contracts worth 8.1 billion yuan (1.2 billion dollars).

It said one of its units won a contract worth 7.6 billion yuan for an electrification project of the railway linking Beijing and Kowloon in Hong Kong, according to a statement filed with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The project started this month and will be completed in June 2010, it said.

The other contract, worth 513.9 million yuan, is to build a 118-kilometre (73-mile) section of a highway in Ethiopia.

The project would take 42 months to complete, the company said, without saying when it would start.

China Railway, listed in Shanghai and Hong Kong, has constructed more than two-thirds of China's more than 75,000 kilometres of railway lines, according to the company's website.

China plans to beat own fastest train service record
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Reuters, Monday September 1 2008

BEIJING, Sept 1 (Reuters) - China plans to beat its own record for the world's fastest train service when a new link between Beijing and Shanghai opens by 2012, a state newspaper reported on Monday. The domestically developed train would run at 380 kpk (236 mph), slicing five or more hours off the current journey to just four hours, the official China Daily quoted Zhang Shuguang, the Ministry of Railways' deputy chief engineer, as saying.

China already claims the record for the fastest train service in the world, for the Beijing-Tianjin line, though there are trains in France which have higher operational speeds.

"We have mastered core technologies in terms of manufacturing high-speed trains and made innovative achievements in the process," he said.

"It is possible that we can start to manufacture 380-kph trains in two years' time, and put them into service on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway," Zhang added.

That line was expected to open in 2012, one year ahead of schedule, the newspaper said.

The new trains would also provide a stiff challenge to airlines, which put on dozens of 1-1/2-hour flights between the two cities a day.

China has invested billions of dollars upgrading its rail network, rolling out sleek new trains and extending the line even as far as the remote Tibetan capital of Lhasa.

A new express line from Beijing to its neighbouring city of Tianjin which opened last month in time for the Olympics reaches top speeds of 350 kmp. (Reporting by Ben Blanchard)

This report is much clearer here


Nation sets sights on rail record

2008-09-01


China will produce the world's fastest bullet train for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, a senior railway official has said.

Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer with the Ministry of Railways, said the domestically developed train will run at 380 kph, the highest speed for any railway in the world.

And if the project materializes, the travel time between the two metropolises will be cut from five to around four hours, enhancing the rail network's competitive edge against airlines, he said.

Previously, China planned to run trains at 350 kph on the 1,318-km Beijing-Shanghai line, the same speed as on the Beijing-Tianjin intercity passenger railway that opened a month ago.

And the travel time is estimated at five hours, about half of the current time. Manufacturing 380-kph trains in China is already possible in terms of technology, he said.

China has established a comprehensive system for bullet train manufacturing, including basic theory, design, manufacture, maintenance and appraisal, he said.

In the past few years, China has imported technology to manufacture 200-250 kph bullet trains from France, Japan and Canada, and German engineering giant Siemens agreed to transfer a full set of technology for manufacturing 350-kph trains.

Using Siemens' technology, Tangshan Railway Vehicles Co Ltd in Hebei province has started production of CRH-3, a jointly designed 350-kph train, and is expected to be able to manufacture 50 such trains by next year.

China has also fostered an experienced team through the previous six speed-up campaigns and the building of the nation's first high-speed railway between Beijing and Tianjin, he said.

"We have mastered core technologies in terms of manufacturing high-speed trains and made innovative achievements in the process," he said.

"It is possible that we can start to manufacture 380-kph trains in two years' time, and put them into service on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway," he said.

Construction of the railway is progressing smoothly, according to He Huawu, the ministry's chief engineer.

It is likely that the high-speed line can be finished within four years, and become operational in 2012, one year ahead of schedule.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-09/01/content_6985869.htm

Full steam ahead for rail plan

2008-09-02


BEIJING, Sept. 2 -- The development of China's railway network will include the construction of 548 railway stations within the 11th Five-Year Plan period (2006-10), a senior official from the Ministry of Railways, said yesterday.

"Twenty-eight new stations have already been completed, 58 are under construction and 210 are in the design stage," Zheng Jian, the ministry's deputy chief engineer, told China Daily.

Last month, Beijing South - the largest in the country - and Tianjin railway stations opened for business at the two ends of a new high-speed intercity service, he said.

In the coming years, as more high-speed routes are added, the ministry plans to develop six passenger transport hubs - Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Xi'an and Chengdu - and 10 regional hubs, with local railway stations upgraded to deal with the increased numbers of travelers, he said.

But it is not only the hubs that are looking to upgrade their facilities, Zheng said.

In Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province, for example, plans have been drawn up to build a station with 30 platforms, more than at Beijing South, he said.

Local governments have realized that their existing railway stations are too small to satisfy the demands brought about by rapid economic development, he said.

"Cities like Hangzhou and Nanjing know that being linked to the high-speed rail network will have a hugely positive impact on their economies, and that is why they want to build big stations, Zheng said.

"However, we will continue to stress that while the construction of large railway stations is fine, they must adhere to the basic principles of economy and not be overly lavish in their decoration," he said.

One Beijing woman said he was pleased to see all the new railway stations being built in the capital.

"Railway stations are no longer shabby or overcrowded like they used to be," commuter Zhang Tao said yesterday.

"They are more like airports," she said.

Under the Ministry of Railways' mid- to long-term plan, the nationwide, high-speed rail network will be extended to 12,000 km by 2020.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/02/content_9752737.htm

^^ wow.
"Twenty-eight new stations have already been completed, 58 are under construction and 210 are in the design stage," Zheng Jian, the ministry's deputy chief engineer, told China Daily.

By completion, I guess China will have the largest transportation system (rail/highway/air) in the world.

China's railway investment hits $19.6 bln in first 7 months

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/08/content_9856674.htm

BEIJING, Sept. 8 (Xinhua) -- China's railway investment soared 37.5 percent from January to July. The numbers are attributed to a building boom of high-speed lines and the country's desire to link together poor regions.

The investment reached 133.78 billion yuan (19.6 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said on Monday.

More people than ever are using railways. In the first 7 months of the year trains carried 855.3 million passengers, up 12.6 percent from the same period last year. Cargo volume was 1.94 billion tons, up 6.8 percent from a 2007.

The MOR had planned to invest 1.25 trillion yuan (182.6 billion U.S. dollars) in railway building and renovation through 2010 extending the train network by 17,000 kilometers.

China started construction on the 1,318-km-long Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway on April 18. The train is designed to run 350km per hour. The total project cost 220.9 billion yuan (32.3 billion U.S. dollars).

China Railway Group wins $1.4 bln subway contract

Thu Sep 18, 2008


SHANGHAI, Sept 19 (Reuters) - China Railway Group the country's largest railway and highway builder, said on Friday it had won a subway construction contract worth a provisional total of 9.5 billion yuan ($1.39 billion).

The 42-month project calls for building a 40-km (25 mile) subway system in the southern Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong. The contracted amount is equivalent to 5.26 percent of the company's 2007 turnover under Chinese accounting rules.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSSHA9088420080919

Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway construction gets under way

2008-09-18


BEIJING, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- China has started construction on1,059 km, or 80 percent, of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway in the five months since the project kicked off.

Construction on the rest of the project was awaiting preliminary work, such as land confiscation.

Nearly 100,000 workers and engineers are involved in the 31.6-billion-U.S.-dollar project, and they will use 21,000 pieces of machinery, according to the leading group of the project.

The key part of the project, a bridge spanning the Yangtze River in Nanjing, has seen 10 of its piers installed, with one left.

The 1,318-km railway line, with a designed speed of 350 km per hour, is expected to welcome passengers in five years.

Upon completion, the line would cut the travel time between the capital of Beijing and the financial hub of Shanghai in half, to five hours.

It would also lift the one-way transport capacity to 80 million passengers and more than 100 million tonnes of cargo annually, so as to ease the burden on the existing line.

The line would traverse Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu before reaching Shanghai.


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/18/content_10075362.htm

An Essential Analysis of China's Railway Equipment Industry 2008


Sept. 10, 2008


Railway equipment includes EMUs, locomotive and railway freight car, etc. China's railway equipment manufacturing industry is now moving in the direction of large railway freight cars and bullet trains. The gap of a locomotive manufacturing industry between China and any developed countries is relatively large, especially in high-power electric locomotive and EMUs. After a technological acquisition, China has acquired high-power electric locomotives, diesel locomotives and 200 km / h EMUs. Presently, the localization rate of parts and components of electric locomotive and EMUs reaches 70 per cent and 75 per cent respectively, and China has developed 300 km/h EMUs based on digesting and absorbing overseas' new technologies.

In terms of the international railway equipment market, the global railway equipment industry is more of a monopoly. The merger of locomotives and railway car plants has restructured the global railway equipment market so that the global railway equipment giant dominates more market share. Presently, there are three global giants of global locomotive and railway car plants-- Germany's Siemens, France's Alstom and Canada's Bombardier. They hold 55 per cent of the total global market share (each 14%, 18% and 23%) and advanced technology and higher market concentration. Bombardier holds the largest market share of the global railway equipment technology and sales market and Alstom remains in advantage on EMUs and ordinary single-decker and double-decker electric locomotive market.

Although the number of China's railway equipment manufacturers is quite large and they produces a wide range of products, they only produce low speed general train's (below 200 km/h) and low-end products. Their production capacity is also surplus and price competition is in chaos; and the lack of design and production capacity of advanced technology of railway equipment can not meet the demands of high-end products. In order to adapt to the demand of current railway development, the Chinese government took a measure to pay huge amounts of money through international cooperation with international leading manufacturers to introduce high-end products, digesting and absorbing advanced manufacturing technology to upgrade the Chinese railway equipment's technology level.

The high-speed railway equipment manufacturing industry is the priority field that is supported by governmental policy. In terms of the current circumstance of China's railway equipment manufacturing industry, it has a low level of technology. Therefore, government policies are encouraging localization and the introduction of advanced technology, followed by digestion and absorption. The Chinese government spent 10 billion Yuan to buy advanced international technology for state-owned enterprises to upgrade their technology capability and offered huge amounts of orders.

The total railway fixed assets investment of China's 11th Five-Year Planning period is 1.5 trillion Yuan, of which the purchase of rolling stock and the investment of technological transformation is 250 billion Yuan. It is estimated that by 2010, the amount of China's locomotives will reach around 19,000 units, EMUs will reach around 1000, railway carriages about 45,000 units and railway freight car will reach 700,000 units.

The great development of the Chinese railway equipment manufacturing industry has benefited by the growth of railway investment, which has promoted railway equipment enterprises' competitive advantage. Those manufacturers who have the technology of high-end products will be the main beneficiaries. In addition, due to the higher standard of high-speed railway technology, it is expected that the Chinese railway equipment parts suppliers still need a certain period of time to enter the high-speed railway equipment market.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/essential-analysis-chinas-railway-equipment/story.aspx?guid=%7BAC2F7641-9AC7-48A2-86A6-594BB29C826C%7D&dist=hppr

Construction work starts on Lanzhou-Chongqing railway


2008-09-27


Work on a major railway connecting Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, with the southwestern city of Chongqing, began in Lanzhou on Friday.

The 820-km, double-line electrified railway, co-invested by the Railway Ministry, Gansu and Sichuan provinces and Chongqing Municipality, is expected to open to traffic in 2014.

The railway will cut the distance on the route from 1,466 km to 820 km and the travel time from 22 hours to 6 and a half.

Fares will fall, too, to about two-thirds of the past, according to forecasts by rail authorities.

Trains are expected to run at 160 km per hour, with a daily capacity of 50 trains.

The line "is conducive to optimizing the railway layout, improving the transportation quality and promoting the development of western China," Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang told a launch ceremony.

Investors will put 2 billion yuan ($293 million) into environmental protection, accounting for 2 percent of the total cost, according to China Railway First Survey and Design Institute Group Ltd.

The May 12 earthquake had a minor effect on the railway. The railway designers used a detour around geologically dangerous areas, said Huang Yanbin, chief designer.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-09/27/content_7066404.htm

Railway to be constructed to connect SW China to booming areas

2008-10-06


GUIYANG, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- A major railway connecting Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, with Guangzhou, the southern Guangdong Province capital, is expected to begin construction on Oct. 13, a local official said here on Monday.

The 857 km electrified railway, co-invested by the Railway Ministry, Guizhou and Guangdong provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is expected to be operational in 2012, said Wang Tongjun, deputy head of Chengdu Railway Bureau, which administrates railways in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing Municipality.

The investment is 85.8 billion yuan (12.53 billion U.S. dollars).

The railway will cut travel time between the two cities from 20hours to 6 hours.

Trains are expected to run at 200 km per hour, with a daily capacity of 100 trains and an annual capacity for goods transportation of 25 million tons.

The line is conducive to transporting goods from southwest China to the booming Pearl River Delta areas, including Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, Wang said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/06/content_10156519.htm

China to build railways linking Xinjiang with central,south Asia

URUMQI - Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is expected to build nine railways covering more than 2,000 km of track to link the Muslim area with other parts of the country and central and south Asia before 2020, a local railway official said here on Thursday.

They included a China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway, a China-Pakistan railway and seven railways linking the region with neighboring Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Qinghai and Gansu provinces, said Wu Jian, the Urumqi Railway Bureau deputy head.

The new lines will provide a faster link between western China and central Asia and improve the southern passageway of the new Euro-Asia continental bridge.

Xinjiang opened its first railway in 1962. Currently, it has more than 3,000 km of rail line and another 2,200 km of track is under construction.

Currently the only rail linking Xinjiang with central Asia is a 460-km line between Urumqi and the Alataw Pass where it connects to Kazakhstan's railway.

China and its central Asian neighbors have been carrying out feasibility studies to improve their rail network amid growing trade in recent years.
(http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-10/09/content_7092181.htm)

China to build railways linking Xinjiang with central,south Asia


(http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-10/09/content_7092181.htm)


That's great news. I was in Wulumuqi/Ürümqi a few weeks ago. I took the train to see the landscape and it was a 43 hours ride to get there. I hope in a few years it will only take half the time.

Line deal won

2008-10-14


CHINA Railway Group Ltd, Asia's biggest construction firm, won a 5.08 billion yuan (US$743 million) station-construction contract for the Shijiazhuang-Wuhan railway line.

The contract is equal to about 2.8 percent of the firm's operating income in 2007 under Chinese accounting standards, it told Hong Kong's stock exchange yesterday.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=376748&type=Business

China starts building railway linking southwestern inland to southern port city

GUILIN, Guangxi, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday began construction on a major regional railway to connect the less-developed southwestern inland Guizhou Province with the southern Guangdong Province, one of the country's economic powerhouses.

The 857-km line starts from Guizhou's provincial capital, Guiyang, running southwards through Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and ending in the port city Guangzhou, Guangdong's capital.

The new line is designed to be a double-track electrified railway and will allow trains to travel at 200 km an hour. With an estimated cost of 85.8 billion (12.6 billion U.S. dollars), the Guiyang-Guangzhou line is expected to be complete and operational in six years.

Vice Premier Zhang Dejiang who attended the ground-breaking ceremony, said the new line, upon completion, would provide a fast rail route with large transport capacity from Guiyang to Guangzhou. It would improve the rail networks in southwestern and southern China by cutting the journey time between the southwest and the Pearl Delta region.

This railway was also expected to help people living along the line shake off poverty and achieve sound and fast economic development, he said.

Zhang demanded workers and engineers protect the environment and respect local customs during construction since the line runs through areas that are home to many people of ethnic minorities and famous for beautiful landscape.
(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/13/content_10188861.htm)

China Railway's subsidiary wins RMB 5.08 bln contract


15 Oct 2008

China Railway Group Ltd the country's largest railway and highway builder, said on Monday that its subsidiary has secured a construction contract worth RMB 5.08 billion.

China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China Railway Group, has secured the construction project of the SWZQ-4 front-station project of Shijiazhuang-Wuhan Passenger Dedicated Line (PDL). The bid price for this project is RMB 5.08 billion, accounting for 2.81% of China Railway's operating revenue in 2007 under Chinese accounting standards, according to China Railway's statement.

This project is expected to be completed in 1,172 days.

http://info.hktdc.com/englishchinanews/index.asp?type=content&Path=&id=15173&CatID=

CHINA RAILWAY ERJU NETS US$63 MLN CONTRACT

Fri. October 17, 2008

China Railway Erju Co., Ltd (SSE:600528) announced on October 16 that it has won a construction contract worth some 435 million yuan (US$63.65 million).
The Chengdu-headquartered company says it has won the bidding of the SDS-IV section of a new railway from Taiyuan, capital city of north China's Shanxi province, to Yinchuan, capital city of northwest Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

By October 15, 2008, the company has won construction biddings worth over 23 billion yuan in total this year, of which 9.222 billion yuan are from railway construction biddings.

New contracts the company has secured this year is already 29.04 per cent higher than the company's 2008 plan of 17.9 billion yuan and 19.57 per cent higher than 2007's contract total value of 19.318 billion yuan.

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1950111/

http://images.businessweek.com/gen/logos/bw/bw_255x54.gif China's Great Railway Expansion

Beijing is ramping up its shipping and passenger network--but may need to cede control to attract investors


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Nanjing to Hefei: Laborers install track for a high-speed line Jianan Yu/Reuters

By Chi-Chu Tschang

Beijing - Two or three times a year, Cargill's joint-venture fertilizer plant in China's remote Yunnan province has to shut down, usually for weeks at a stretch. That's when there aren't any railcars available for shipping its fertilizer to customers across China. Without railcars, the factory's warehouse fills to overflowing, and production has to halt. "There's a huge demand for shipping, but the railroads can only meet 30% of the demand," says Zhang Hong, sales manager of the plant, which shut down yet again in October.

For decades, China has neglected investment in railroads in favor of building highways. With less than 49,000 miles of rails, China has roughly a third of America's track for an area of similar size. The nation's rails carry a quarter of global train cargo and passenger traffic on only 6% of the world's track, making its system the busiest on the planet. "China's strained railroads have already become a bottleneck for the economy," says Yu Tengqun, secretary of the board of state-owned China Railway Group, which has built two-thirds of China's railroad network since 1949.

CRISSCROSSING THE MAP
China is now undertaking the world's biggest railway expansion since the U.S. laid its transcontinental line in the 1860s. Beijing plans to spend $248 billion through 2020 on 75,000 miles of new track, for both freight and high-speed passenger lines. At that point, China's high-speed passenger network will likely be the biggest on earth.

Despite these colossal ambitions, a nagging question remains: Can anyone make money from all this? Equipment suppliers, such as China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corp. and multinationals like Siemens, certainly can. But it's hard to profit from running a railroad on the mainland. Analysts at UBS (UBS) estimate China's Ministry of Railways, which operates the railroads, has a net profit margin of less than one percent on revenues of about $35 billion. The Ministry maintains majority control over all rail lines and sets freight rates for farm products and ticket prices for migrant workers at artificially low levels. It wouldn't comment for this article.

That pricing policy is politically smart but commercially ruinous. Only 16 of China's 26 joint-venture railway companies—each of which involve the Ministry and often local governments as well—are marginally profitable, according to UBS. The rest chug along in the red. In June, China's first private enterprise to invest in a railway project, Guangyu Group, decided to reduce its stake in the Quchang Railway to 19%, from 34%. The company was unwilling to comment.

Pressure on the Ministry of Railways to find the billions needed for all this expansion may eventually force it to loosen its grip on pricing and cede control of at least some of the railroads. "There is a lot of capital now that is very interested in building railroads," says Zhao Jian, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University who researches railway reforms. Until that happens, China's rail industry will continue to attract more business than it can handle and fewer investors than it needs.

China's Cabinet approved huge money infusion to rail construction


www.chinaview.cn 2008-10-27 08:32:20

BEIJING, Oct. 27, (Xinhua) -- The country's State Council has approved a total of two-trillion-yuan (292.2 billion U.S. dollars)investment in railways construction, which was set in the Mid-term and Long-term Railway Network Scheme issued in 2004, according the Ministry of Railway (MOF).

According to the plan, the country would need two trillion yuan for railway construction between 2004 and 2020. Now the approved investment has exceeded the 1.25 trillion yuan set in the 11th Five-Year Plan for the period from 2006 to 2010.

Analysts said the country would embrace the railway boom.

Of the total, 1.2 trillion yuan has been injected to the ongoing constructions.

By 2010, China's railway is expected to extend to 100,000 kilometers. That will increase to more than 120,000 kilometers by 2020. At of the end of 2007, railways across the nation stretched 78,000 kilometers.

Shenyin and Wanguo Securities anticipated the three years between 2008 and 2010 would be a peak time for railway investments of 244.5 billion yuan, 341.9 billion yuan and 333.9 billion yuan, respectively.

MOC official Wang Yong said the total capital infusion would probably exceed the total of two trillion fixed currently as more investment opportunities might emerge.

He added new investments would help bolster the country's economy.

An unnamed official from the National Development and Reform Commission said the country's highway system was almost completed, but the railway network was still far from catching up.

He also noted the country would focus on rail construction as the current railways couldn't meet the need for traveling and freight.

From 2003 to 2007, the annual freight volume surged by 200 million tonnes, up 8.7 percent year on year, while the railways extended by 3.4 percent per year. The four year saw the fastest development of the country's railway.

Dali-lijiang railway

164.4km, 3.5 years, 280 mln yuan, finishing in 2009

大丽铁路从广大铁路大理东站接轨，至丽江市古城区，正线长约164.4公里，是国铁Ⅰ级单线铁路，设计时速120公里，工期约三年半。据了解，今年1月至8月，大理至丽江铁路累计完成投资2.8亿元，完成年度计划6亿元的46.67%；开工累计完成投资31.1亿元，完成设计数量的75.8%。路基土石方完成91.9%，桥梁完成87.54%，隧道完成99.08%，涵洞完成97.34%。铺轨完成11.74公里，占设计总量的5.54%。

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Dali
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(baidu.com)

Yibin-Wanzhou Railway

376.99km, bridge/tunnel 74% of total length, opens in 2009

　　新建宜昌至万州铁路（简称宜万铁路）东起鸦宜铁路花艳站，西止达万铁路万州站，途经湖北省宜昌市、恩施州和重庆市万州区，全长376.99KM。其中正线桥隧总长278.82K同，占线路总长74%。

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(baidu.com)

some random railway construction pics

Dongwu railway constructions
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Guang-Zhu HSR constructions
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He-ning railway
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(baidu.com)

China to have 1,700 km of urban rail lines by 2015

2008-11-08


Urban rail transportation would play an increasingly important role in public transportation in Chinese cities, said an official.

Fifteen major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, have planned the construction of more than 60 urban rail lines recently, Liu Shijin, vice director of Development Research Center of the State Council, said at a forum on urbanization and rail transportation Beijing on Friday.

A larger 72 percent of the scheduled new lines are subway projects, 10 percent are light rail, and 8 percent are other rail systems, said Liu, saying that the proportion of urban rail transit would further grow.

China plans to expand its urban rail transit route to 1,700 kilometers by 2015, according to construction layouts of China's 15 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.

The figure grew from 43 km to 730 km from 1995 to 2008.

Urban rail transportation would be an effective way to solve the traffic congestion in roads of the large populous cities in China, said Liu.

Urban rail transportation would play an increasingly important role in public transportation in Chinese cities, said an official.

Fifteen major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, have planned the construction of more than 60 urban rail lines recently, Liu Shijin, vice director of Development Research Center of the State Council, said at a forum on urbanization and rail transportation Beijing on Friday.

A larger 72 percent of the scheduled new lines are subway projects, 10 percent are light rail, and 8 percent are other rail systems, said Liu, saying that the proportion of urban rail transit would further grow.

China plans to expand its urban rail transit route to 1,700 kilometers by 2015, according to construction layouts of China's 15 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.

The figure grew from 43 km to 730 km from 1995 to 2008.

Urban rail transportation would be an effective way to solve the traffic congestion in roads of the large populous cities in China, said Liu.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-11/08/content_7187137.htm

Work on Tianjin-Baoding railway to start in 2009

2008-11-09

TIANJIN -- Work will start in the first half of 2009 on a high-speed railway connecting Tianjin, a port city on the Bohai Sea, and Baoding, a city in central Hebei Province, it was announced at a meeting here on Saturday.

The meeting, in the Binhai New Area, was attended by officials from the Ministry of Railways, Tianjin Municipality and Hebei Province.
The line will be 145 km long, with trains running up to 250 km per hour,according to the Ministry of Railways. The link will cost 24 billion yuan (about $3.52 billion), but no detailed financial plans are yet available.

There is no rail link at present, only a freeway. The line will create a route linking Tianjin, the largest port city in north China, and the vast central and western areas of China, said a ministry official.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/09/content_7187756.htm

Tianjin to get three new railways in 2008

24 Oct 2008 06:28:24 GMT

North China's Tianjin Municipality will add three railways in 2008, transforming it into a comprehensive modern transportation center.

The three lines are the Tianjin section of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, the railway from the Tianjin west railway station to the Tianjin station, and the Tianjin-Qinhuangdao railway.

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway is planned to start at Beijing South railway station and leave Tianjin from Tianjin West and Huayuan stations.

The railway from the Tianjin West railway station to Tianjin railway station will have 5.2 kilometers underground and a 3.889 kilometer long tunnel.

And the Tianjin-Qinhuangdao railway is designed to run at 300 kilometers per hour, and the travel time between Tianjin and Tangshan of Hebei Province will be 50 minutes. It will be only 20 minutes from Tangshan to Qinhuangdao. The railway will stretch 262 kilometers and stop at Tianjin West, New Tangshan and Qinhuangdao stations.
(http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/trade-in-tianjin/100016221-1-tianjin-get-three-new-railways.html)

Nanning-Guangzhou Railway starts construction

南宁至广州铁路开建 设计时速200公里以上

　　南广铁路跨桂、粤两省区，始自广西壮族自治区南宁市，经贵港、梧州，广东省云浮、肇庆、佛山至广州，线路全长577公里，设车站23座。为双线电气化国家I级铁路，设计时速200公里以上，满足开行双层集装箱列车运输的要求。
(sina.com)

Length: 577km
Stations: 23
Speed: 200km+
Bridge/tunnel: 54% og total length
Duration: 4.5 years

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Nanning-Guangzhou Railway starts construction



Length: 577km
Stations: 23
Speed: 200km+
Bridge/tunnel: 54% og total length
Duration: 4.5 years

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http://bbs.home.news.cn/upfiles/03A09378.002C

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China starts construction of Nanning-Guangzhou railway

2008-11-10

Work began on Sunday on a high-speed rail link between Nanning and Guangzhou that will cut travel time between the two south China cities from almost 13 hours to three.

A ceremony was held in Wuzhou, a city in southwestern Guangxi, to mark the commencement on Sunday. Present at the function were local government authorities of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guangdong Province, as well as Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railways.

The link will be 577.1 km long, of which 61 percent will be in Guangxi, and allow trains to run up to 200 km per hour. It will be completed in an estimated 54 months and cost about 41 billion yuan ($6 billion), according Chen Boshi, chief of Nanning Railways Administration.

The cost will be shared by the Ministry of Railways, Guangdong province and Guangxi, said Chen.

Guangdong province governor Huang Huahua said he hoped the link would advance the goal of a Pan-Pearl River Delta and help connect southeast China to members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Liu said the project was significant, as it came amid the world financial crisis and thus would help boost domestic demand.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-11/10/content_7189998.htm

Shanghai-Nanjing city rail designing speed raised to 300kmh+

300km shanghai-Nanjing express rail has modified its design, elevated rail will increase from 50% to over 80%, speed rises from 200-250kmh to over 300kmh, same with newly built Beijing-Tianjin express rail.

Cost also raises 10% from 39.45 billion yuan.

Nanjing-Hangzhou express rail starts construction next month (December)

Its designing speed is 300kmh and the project will take 3 years to finish.

(xinhuanet.com)
http://csj.xinhuanet.com/2008-11/12/content_14893381.htm

Chinese package a boon for rail projects

GEOFFREY YORK

From Thursday's Globe and Mail

November 13, 2008 at 2:38 AM EST

BEIJING — China's announcement of a massive $586-billion (U.S.) stimulus package is “very good news” for Bombardier Inc., offering the prospect of more aggressive Chinese investment in the types of railway projects where the company has emerged as a top supplier, a Bombardier executive says.

In the wake of the stimulus announcement, China has also unveiled an expanded plan for railway construction in the near future.

The Chinese government says it will spend more than $500-billion on railway investment in the next three years, creating millions of new jobs, according to state media reports.

“It's a very good number,” said Jianwei Zhang, president of Bombardier's operations in China, in an interview yesterday. “This is good news for sure. Bombardier is well-positioned in the Chinese market. We have production capacity, credibility and good relations with the Chinese government.”

Beijing's stimulus package has been criticized for failing to help Chinese domestic consumers. Most of the investment is aimed at traditional infrastructure projects such as railways, airports, roads and housing. But while it might fail to generate new consumer spending, it could be a windfall for companies such as Montreal-based Bombardier.

So far there are few details on how much of the planned spending is new money and how much is a reshuffle of already announced spending. But it seems clear that Beijing will be boosting its spending significantly on high-speed intercity railways and urban mass-transit projects – both of which have produced dozens of contracts for Bombardier in recent years.

Bombardier and its China-based joint-venture company have won $6.9-billion in Chinese railway contracts over the past three years, and more are in the pipeline, Mr. Zhang says. “I'm in intensive negotiations in parallel for several contracts now,” he said. “I hope we will sign more railway and urban-transit contracts in China in the coming weeks or months.”

Several of the upcoming projects are high-speed trains to connect some of China's biggest cities, including a much-discussed $26-billion plan to connect Beijing and Shanghai with trains running at speeds of up to 350 kilometres an hour. This project is a major element in the new stimulus package that China announced last weekend.

The Chinese government's investment plans are a ray of optimism for Bombardier, whose shares have been badly hit since the global financial crisis began. Its share price has fallen to barely half of its September peak, mainly because of worries that its business-jet orders will be hurt by the financial crisis.

The Chinese government says it will create six million new jobs by investing $87-billion in railway projects next year. It also plans to invest a similar amount in urban mass-transit projects, where Bombardier has traditionally been a top supplier of rail cars and other equipment. Bombardier has already sold about 1,300 metro cars in China and it is currently tracking about 200 possible transit contracts in 37 cities across China, Mr. Zhang said.

Bombardier's most visible transit project in China is the high-speed line between Beijing and its international airport, which opened in time for the Beijing Olympics this summer. Bombardier won a $68-million contract to provide train cars for the airport line. The performance of its train equipment during the Olympics was “better than we promised,” Mr. Zhang said. “The customer is very happy with it.”

source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081113.wrbombardier13/BNStory/Business/

it's not that easy to spend $500 bln in rail in 3 years (though it's easier than earning the same in 3 years :) ), i.e. Finding resonable projects; Auditing etc.

It is very possibly that many of the projects were planned years ahead and now with the economic down turn coming so CCP has more incentive to implemented.
I agree with you that auditing and managing such as major construction would take a lot of time and energy and even money!

does anyone have pictures of the new shanghai-beijing railway the very fast one?

The Shanghai-Beijing express rail is U/C and only start operation in 2012-2013. The newly built Beijing-Tianjin express rail pics are available,
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=613688

thanks big-dog

Rail investment up 61% in Jan-Oct

2008-11-18


China's fixed asset investment for railways climbed 61.1 percent year on year to 255.6 billion yuan ($37.42 billion) in the first ten months of this year, according to a report by the Ministry of Railways last Friday. Investment for railway infrastructure construction amounted to 208.4 billion yuan, up 81.3 percent year on year.


The government has cleared a 4 trillion-yuan investment package lasting until 2010 to spur domestic demand and boost the slowing economy. In accordance with the stimulus package, the ministry plans to increase railway infrastructure investment to 350 billion yuan this year from 300 billion yuan previously, said a ministry official. The amount is expected to reach 600 billion yuan by 2009.


The country's railway system moved 1.25 billion passengers and 2.8 billion tons of cargo during the January and October period, the report said.


http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-11/18/content_7216222.htm

China to invest 120 bln yuan in second railway for Xinjiang


www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-25 13:55:09

URUMQI, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- China will spend 120 billion yuan (17.6 billion U.S. dollars) to build a second railway linking the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region with inland cities, according to information from a meeting of the Xinjiang committee of the Communist Party of China on Tuesday.

Construction is expected to begin next year, with investment from the central and local governments and other sources.

The new line will be parallel to the existing Lanxin Railway linking Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang. Only passenger trains will run on it.

When the new line is completed, the old Lanxin railway, running1,892 kilometers, will be used by cargo trains only.

Xinjiang, a vast region in China's far west, boasts rich oil, coal and other resources and is the country's major cotton producer. Lanxin is currently the only railway linking Xinjiang and other parts of China.

Railway officials said the new rail line will break the bottleneck of transport for Xinjiang in its economic development, ease the pressure on the Euro-Asian continental bridge and facilitate exchanges between China and its west neighbors.

Another 100 billion yuan would be injected to improve Xinjiang's highway network between 2009 and 2013, according to information from the meeting.

(http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/25/content_10410141.htm)

$730b plan to expand railways

2008-11-28


The national rail network is set to grow by 41,000 km by 2020, thanks to a 5 trillion yuan ($730 billion) government spending plan, a senior railways official said on Thursday.

By 2020, the country's rail network will stretch 120,000 km, Lu Dongfu, vice-minister of railways, said at a press conference in Beijing.

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The large-scale projects will be good news for passengers, as journey times between capital cities will be "cut in half", he said.

The increased spending is part of the country's mid- to long-term railway plan, revisions to which were approved by the State Council on Oct 31, but announced only yesterday.

The project will include the construction of new rail lines, "doubling" existing ones, and the electrification of certain other sections, Lu said.

"By 2020, 41,000 km of new lines will be in place, up from the original plan to build 16,000 km of track," he said.

The massive plan will include the construction of routes linking China to Russia, Mongolia and other neighboring countries, and the expansion of cross-country routes, he said.

The high-speed rail network will also be extended by 16,000 km, rather than 12,000 km as originally planned, he said.

By 2020, the length of railways on which passenger trains can run at up to 200 kph will be 50,000 km, up from the planned 30,000 km, Lu said.

By linking all provincial capitals and cities with more than 500,000 residents, the network will be accessible to 90 percent of the population, he said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/images/attachement/jpg/site1/20081128/0013729e42ea0a996cf209.jpg

The changes to the railway plan were made partly in response to the need to boost domestic demand, he said.

Yang Zhongmin, director of the railway ministry's planning department, said the project will create 6 million jobs, and consume 20 million tons of steel and 120 million tons of cement.

A number of rail projects, valued at 1 trillion yuan, are already under construction across the country, he said.

Next year, 600 billion yuan will be spent on the construction of track and 100 billion yuan on buying rolling stock, Yang said.

Also on Thursday, Zheng Jian, deputy chief engineer with the ministry, responded to recent suggestions in the media that China has a shortage of skilled manpower.

"We have about 30,000 professionals in railway design and geological surveying, which is more than enough to meet our requirements," he said.

Also, stringent control mechanisms have been developed to monitor construction quality and the use of funds, he said.

By the end of this year, the country's rail network will have grown to 79,000 km.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-11/28/content_7249032.htm

China´s railway projects to boost GDP by 1.5%

11-28-2008 09:12
Railway authorities in China say they expect massive investment in the sector to boost GDP growth by as much as 1-and-a-half percent.

Speaking at a news conference on Thursday, the Ministry of Railways announced plans to build 40,000 kilometers of new lines over the next 12 years.

Total investment is expected to hit 5 trillion yuan. But 15 billion yuan is likely to be spend by the end of this year alone on 25 new projects, including several express links.

The Ministry also confirmed it had got government approval for mid-and-long term construction plans, and that it expects to sell at least 100 billion yuan of construction bonds next year.

Expanding railways is one of the key parts of China's recently announced plan to spend up to 4 trillion yuan on developing infrastructure and boosting domestic demand.
(CCTV.com)

Shanghai-Beijing high-speed trains on track for next month

2008-11-24


A BEIJING-Shanghai high-speed night train is expected to debut next month, reducing travel time by more than 2 hours, a local newspaper reported today.

The Youth Daily report said railway authorities haven’t decided ticket prices or departure times yet for the approximate 9h15m trip. However, tickets are likely to be more than 500 yuan (US$73) considering the price of existing trains.

The highest current price for sleeper tickets between the two cities is 499 yuan.

One train will likely depart about 9:45pm in each city and arrive at their destinations about 7am the next day, according to the report. The shortest travel time for other trains between the two cities is 11.5 hours.

The trains are likely to be attractive to business passengers as they are comfortable and cheaper than flights, the report said.

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200811/20081124/article_381851.htm

China to invest 150 bln yuan in railways in coal-rich Shanxi Province


www.chinaview.cn 2008-12-07

TAIYUAN, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- China plans to invest more than 150billion yuan (21.9 billion U.S. dollars) in its northern coal-rich Shanxi Province by 2015, according to officials from the Ministry of Railways and the province.

Shanxi, accounting for one-third of China's coal output, is expected to have 5,300 km of railways by 2015, up from 3,300 km at present, said Yang Zhongmin, head of the ministry's department of development and planning, at a meeting here in the capital of Shanxi on Saturday evening.

Construction will start in the first half of 2009 on at least three new rail lines, according to the meeting.

Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun pledged the ministry's support for the projects.

Zhang Baoshun, Secretary of the Shanxi provincial committee of the Communist Party of China, said the projects would play a positive role in boosting domestic demand amid the global financial crisis.

Zhang said the province's coal could be shipped directly to coastal ports in Shandong Province with the construction of a railway in the mid-southern part of Shanxi.

(xinhuanet.com)

Railway construction project in south China to link region

2008-12-14

NANNING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) --Work on a massive transportation project in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is underway.

Construction on four railroads got underway this October. Sunday, the Office for Railway Construction said work will begin on another 12 lines at the beginning of 2009.

Combined all 16 railroads will stretch 4,262 kilometers. Of that, 2,802 kilometers will be in Guangxi.

The estimated cost of the infrastructure project is placed at 196.2 billion yuan (about 28.85 billion U.S. dollars), said Li Hongqing, deputy chief of the regional office for railway construction.

"A modernized railway network will be in place by the year 2016,with Nanning, the regional capital of Guangxi, as the center," said Li. "The lines will link up to southwestern and central China, and to ASEAN member states."

Not only will there be more destinations for travelers it will also take them less time to get places.

A single journey from Nanning to Beijing will only take nine hours instead of the current 28 hours, according to Ma Biao, chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regional Government.

Inter-city train services will also help shorten travel time from the regional capital to three coastal cities on Beibu Gulf --Qinzhou, Beihai and Fangchenggang-- to all within one hour's journey, said Ma.

Currently, it takes one and a half hours for a single journey by train from Nanning to Qinzhou, or three hours from Nanning to Beihai. There is no direct train service from Nanning to Fangchenggang.

By 2007, there were only 2,750 kilometers of railway roads in service across Guangxi and 1,879 kilometers of freeways.

"The existing railroads were backward and fell far behind from meeting the growing demand in Guangxi, which has put our region at a disadvantageous position," said Chairman Ma.

Guangxi will invest more than 400 billion yuan (58 billion U.S. dollars) on transportation infrastructure over the next five years, Ma said at a specially convened press conference held in Beijing early this month.

Industry observers say the transportation construction boom will help Guangxi improve its potential appeal and win over more investors.

Guangxi Autonomous Regional Office for Railway Construction is a new agency created late last month under the regional government to oversee railway construction work.

Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one of China's five minority autonomous regions, borders Vietnam.

It was founded on Dec. 11, 1958 and has 12 ethnic groups. The total population in Guangxi by the end of 2007 was more than 50 million, a third are of the Zhuang ethnic minority.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-12/14/content_10503524.htm

Nanning to Fangchenggang train be just for passengers or cargo also?

China to double railway investment in 2009

2008-12-31

BEIJING - Amid a surge in planned infrastructure projects next year aimed at boosting domestic demand, China plans to almost double its investment in railways to about 600 billion yuan (US$87.9 billion).

The money is part of the 4-trillion-yuan stimulus package announced by the government earlier this year.

In 2008, China spent 330 billion yuan on railways, according to a national conference on railway construction held here Wednesday.

Part of next year's 600 billion yuan would be used to build a total of 5,148 km of new rails, said Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun at the meeting.

The money will also help put five passenger-dedicated, high-speed lines into operation next year, according to Liu. These rails will link the central city of Wuhan to the southern city of Guangzhou; Zhengzhou in central Henan Province to Xi'an in northwest Shaanxi Province; Ningbo to Wenzhou, both in east China's Zhejiang Province; Wenzhou to Fuzhou in southern Fujian Province; and Fuzhou to Xiamen, also in Fujian.

The ministry also planned to start 70 new projects next year with part of the money. Those projects will need a total investment of 1.5 trillion yuan to be completed, Liu said.

Rail transport strain to be eased

Liu also predicted railway travel would be much easier by 2012. Currently, there are not enough seats for all the people who want to travel, especially during the Spring Festival every year, when millions are on the move.

"There could be a historical change in the country's railway transport by 2012. The bottle-neck restraints both in passenger and cargo transportation could be removed," he said.

Railways inside the country would reach 110,000 km by 2012. About 13,000 km of passenger lines, which allow trains to travel between 200 to 350 km per hour, would be put into use.

"Such coverage of passenger rails should be able to ensure that passenger needs are satisfied," he said

Rail lines across the country added up to 78,000 km at the end of 2007.

The ministry also plans to add more rails to busy routes and to provide separate rails for passenger and cargo transport. This should also help boost transport capacity and efficiency by 2012.

Liu envisioned inter-city rail systems would be put into place by 2012 in populous regions, such as the Shanghai-led Yangtze River Delta, Guangzhou-centered Pearl River Delta and Beijing-led Bohai areas.

Construction on railways began to boom in China after the country initiated a mid- and long-term plan in 2004. Liu said the country revised the plan this year so the distance of rail lines would increase to 120,000 km by 2020, from the original goal of 100,000 km.

The country also raised rail speeds to help with passenger flow. The latest change came in April last year.

About 1.46 billion people traveled by rail this year, up 10.9 percent from last year. Both transport capacity and efficiency had improved after train speeds increased, Liu said.

In addition, 3.3 billion tonnes of cargo had been delivered by rail, up 4.9 percent year on year.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-12/31/content_7358177.htm

China's northern passenger railway on trial run

2009-01-01


A 250 km-per-hour passenger railway between the coal-rich Shanxi province and neighboring Hebei province went into trial operation on Thursday.

The 190 kilometer rail line links Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan, cities of the northern provinces. It is estimated to carry 15 million one-way passengers a year in 2020 and more than 25 million a year in 2030.

The railway would distribute the passenger flow and let the original passenger-goods mixed lines carry more coal from Shanxi.

The 12.64-billion-yuan project ($1.8 billion) began construction in 2005. The line runs through 94 bridges and 32 tunnels, including China's longest mountain tunnel with a length of 27.8 km.

Another five high-speed passenger lines, mostly in southern China, will go into operation in 2009, according to the Ministry of Railways (MOR).

The MOR plans to have 120,000 km of lines in service by 2020, of which 16,000 km would be exclusively for passenger services. At present, China has more than 79,000 km of rail lines. To meet the 2020 target will cost about 5 trillion yuan, the ministry said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-01/01/content_7359679.htm

Chinese railway expansion plan unveiled

Jan 8 2009
China Daily reported that train transportation will be tremendously improved by 2012, since construction of an expanded railway system accelerated in the H2 of 2008.

The report quoted Mr Liu Zhijun railway minister of China said that "Surely, 2012 is going to be a year of historical change. The advanced railway network taking shape will remove the bottlenecks in railway transport."

He said that in 2008, 80 railway construction projects were launched including 10 started in the last week of the year. Currently CNY 2 trillion worth of rail construction projects that will span 30,000 kilometers when completed are under way. He added that more projects to lay an additional 20,000 kilometers of tracks will start this year and in 2010.

Mr Liu said that China is expected to have 110,000 kilometers of tracks including 13,000 kilometers for passenger trains traveling at more than 250 kilometers per hour within four years. It would also have 800 modern railway stations. The central government has supported railway construction as part of its comprehensive push to boost domestic demand as the economy slows.

Mr Zhao Mao vice minister of National Development and Reform Commission said that the current construction is taking place at unprecedented speed. He said that "More projects that can yield quick returns with relatively low investment like railways linking Shanxi province with seaports should be implemented next year."

(Sourced from China Daily)

Railway construction halts in S. China after villagers protest

2009-01-08

GUANGZHOU - A railway construction site in south China's Guangdong Province has halted work for five days as of Thursday as a result of protests by villagers who were worried about their resettlement.

Zhang Hong, an official with the China Railway No. 4 Engineering Group in charge of the construction site of the Wuhan-Guangzhou Railway, said the company had planned to resume work Thursday, the fifth day since the halt began Sunday.

However, about 100 residents of Nangang Village in the suburbs of Guangzhou protested at the site, foiling attempts to resume construction.

Workers at the site had been forced to stop work for a week last month for the same reason, said Zhang.

"Villagers would throw bricks at our workers if they did not agree to stop work," he added.

A villager surnamed Ou said the villagers protested because more than 100 families, who would have to move away and make room for the railway, were worried about their resettlement.

The families had not received any information about where and how they would be resettled, Ou told Xinhua.

China started building the 995-km railway between Wuhan, capital of the central Hubei province, and the southern Guangdong Province's capital Guangzhou in June 2005 and planned to finish it this year.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-01/08/content_7380045.htm

China forecasts 188 million rail passengers over Lunar New Year

18 hours ago

BEIJING (AFP) — Chinese authorities are expecting 188 million people to travel by train over the Lunar New Year holiday, an important annual family get-together, a railways spokesman said Saturday.

"We predict that across the nation the railway network will receive 188 million passengers, a rise of eight per cent on the same period last year, with a daily average of 4.7 million people," Wang Yongping of the Rail Ministry told a press conference.

The Lunar New Year falls this year on January 26, but for the Chinese rail network the period between departures and returns lasts 40 days, with passenger numbers expected to peak between January 21 and 24.

Many Chinese have decided to combine their annual holidays with the festival because it falls this year in January, a month that includes three of the annual 14 national holidays.

In recent weeks official state media have frequently reported on mass movements of migrant workers from the south of China as factories close early because of a drop in demand for the good they produce.

The government in December asked provincial authorities to ensure these often exploited workers receives their wages in time for the New Year getaway. According to the official figures, China has some 210 million migrant workers.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j1yl6LqKa8ka4Zj-pusCyTnuERDA

Wuhan-Guangzhou rail work resumes after residents suspend protest

2009-01-09

GUANGZHOU, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Work resumed Friday on a major railway project in south China after local residents agreed to end a five-day sit-in, an official of the contractor said.

Tong Guoqiang, an official with the state-controlled China Railway No. 4 Engineering Group, which is building that portion of the Wuhan-Guangzhou Railway, said villagers agreed Thursday to suspend protests for a week after they met with local officials and the company.

The suspension cost the company "hundreds of thousands of yuan" a day, including wages and equipment costs, said Tong.

Villagers threatened to throw bricks at workers if they did not agree to stop work, according to another company official, Zhang Hong.

The residents of Nangang Village in the suburbs of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, protested because 110 households facing relocation hadn't received any information about resettlement, villagers said.

Work was suspended for a week last month for the same reason.

"They are likely to resume the protest if they do not get a reply on their resettlement in the next week," said Tong.

The line, which would run 968 km from Wuhan, capital of the central Hubei province, to Guangzhou, is the longest under construction in China.

Work began in June 2005 and was scheduled to finish at the end of this year. The cost is 116.6 billion yuan (17 billion U.S. dollars).

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/09/content_10630655.htm

Railway ministry apologizes, vows better service

Prodded by Hu, railways rush to do more

By Zuo Likun (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-01-15

China's railway authorities, prodded by President Hu Jintao and millions of travelers who aspire to go home for the impending 7-day Spring Festival holidays, pledged Thursday they would do more.

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People crowd a passage to a railway platform at Guangzhou railway station in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province January 10, 2009. A total of 188 million people will be travelling by train in the country for family reunion during this year's Spring Festival travel peak, which will last 40 days until mid-February and strain the railway system. [Xinhua]

As an expected 200 million people could be on the move for the most celebrated Chinese festival in a year, the difficulty facing the railway officials is enormous. Increasing complaints from the travelers about the trouble to get a home ticket, especially the rumored corrupted money trade between ticket sellers and scalpers, caught the ears of the top leadership.

The website of the Ministry of Railways highlighted Thursday a message written by President Hu. The note said: "This year's Spring Festival is facing a tougher supply-demand imbalance, and the ministry has to brainstorm for measures to improve passenger convenience, and make all the measures public."

The president also ordered the ministry to ensure a smooth and safe transportation during the peak season of family reunion.

Responding to the instructions, top ministry officials convened a mid-night meeting to mete out a raft of measures to ease transportation congestion, provide more tickets to the needy, while end the loopholes which feed on a booming scalper business.

Vice Minister of Railways Wang Zhiguo told reporters on Thursday in Beijing that the ministry will suspend cargo services to allow more passenger trains in the busiest southern and eastern regions. Short-distance passenger trains would be suspended for more long-distance trains. Hard sleepers would be changed to seats.

The ministry will also transfer passenger trains serving northeast and northwest areas to south and east China and improve schedules of temporary trains, especially those for students and migrant workers.

Tickets will be sold only in the railway ticket sales network, except for group tickets for students and migrant workers. Hotels, restaurants and travel agencies are ordered to halt ticket booking services. In addition, major stations will adopt 24-hour ticket services.

As a new rule decreed by the ministry on Thursday, sales staff will be prohibited from buying tickets for others, from carrying cash and mobile phones during work hours, from keeping personal belongings on the sales desk.

Wang also apologized to passengers who had reacted angrily to a video posted online, which showed a sales lady at Beijing Railway Station's ticket office printing out 130 tickets of trains running to cities in the northeast, while eager passengers waited for hours in long lines in frigid cold, but to no avail.

Passengers had accused the station of scalping tickets.

"On behalf of the ministry, I have to apologize to passengers for their unpleasant feelings and misunderstandings the incident has caused," Wang said. "The action was immediately investigated and turned out it was part of advance preparations to save time for passengers. There was no rumored collusion between railway staff and ticket scalpers."

The 3-minute video clip was posted on the internet on Monday, sparking an uproar among Chinese internet surfers，stoking the long-harbored discontent over scalpers as many failed to get tickets home.

Wang reiterated his ministry's determination to deal harshly with any malpractice in ticket sales. More than 30,000 police officers have been mobilized in a nationwide campaign against scalpers, detaining over 2000 scalpers, and confiscating nearly 80,000 tickets which was resold to travelers later.

Huge traffic volume during the Spring Festival has long plagued China's railway system, as the demand far exceeded the supply.

In the world's largest annual human migration, 188 million passengers are expected to take rail for home during this year's Spring Festival holiday.

The tension got more public attention when a man in his 60s died suddenly after waiting for hours in long lines to buy train tickets last Wednesday in a East China city.

The scarcity of homebound tickets during the Spring Festival travel rush would be significantly eased by 2012 when freight trains travel on different rails from passenger trains, and when over 800 more railway stations will be built or restored, Wang told reporters.

Shenzhen Futian Station construction (Jan.17)

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renderings and drawings
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it will be connected with metro line 2 (also under construction) and future line 11
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some info
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great HSR - subway interchange station, a bit pity that it can only be finished Aug 2012 but it's worth the waiting. Thanks Taipei_walker.

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8 railway transit hubs

http://bbs.home.news.cn/upfiles/03C2B492.002C

(xinhuanet forum)

China, Germany agree on maglev technology transfer

2009-01-29

BERLIN, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- China and Germany on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding on the transfer of parts of the core technologies from Germany for the maglev railway projects in China.

The deal was signed by Wu Xiangming, president of the Shanghai Magnetic Transportation Development Co. and Hans Christoph Atzpodien, chairman of Germany's Thyssen Krupp Technology.

The agreement was among six deals signed by the two sides during Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's official visit to Germany.

Zhang Ping, minister in charge of the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission, signed an agreement on cooperation in climate protection with Sigmar Gabriel, Germany's environment minister.

The two countries also clinched deals covering cooperation in the car industry, construction of Chinese ecological city Xuzhou, and exchanges between museums of the two countries.

The signing ceremony was witnessed by Merkel and Wen, who arrived in Berlin late Wednesday.

Later Thursday, Wen will attend a forum on Sino-German economic and technical cooperation and deliver a speech.

Cooperation between China and Germany, both export-driving nations, is of special significance amid the ongoing financial and economic crisis, said a joint statement by the two leaders.

Germany is the second leg of Wen's European tour after Switzerland, where he attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). The trip will also take him to the European Union headquarters, Spain and Britain.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/29/content_10734898.htm

East China province to boost railway construction

2009-01-30

NANCHANG, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- East China's Jiangxi Province is planning to kick off 14 railway projects by 2012 to improve transportation conditions, the local railway authority said Friday.

The projects, involving an estimated investment of 116.52 billion yuan (17 billion U.S. dollars), will bring Jiangxi's total rail length to 3,500 kilometers upon completion.

According to a railway construction plan compiled by the provincial development and reform commission late last year, the province is expected to have 4,000 km of railway by 2015 and more than 4,500 km by 2020.

According to the plan, railways are expected to reach all the province's counties, main tourist destinations and key industrial and mining zones as well as economically-developed towns by 2020.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/30/content_10736135.htm

If maglev tech transfer is realized it will be interesting to see what is Chinese going to do with it..

Great threat! Could anyone point me to interesting websites (in Engelish) regarding railway developments in China? I'm especially interested in overviews on and updates about newly built high speed lines. It's pretty hard to find information about this in English on the web...

I see a similarity of this design

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with this (Guangdong Science Center)

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and this (Shenzhen Citizen center)

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Is it a Guangdong roof style? :)

Yeah, I have noticed that as well. LOL :lol:

First and third pictures show the same structure - Shenzhen Citizen center.

Work to start on Shanghai-Hangzhou rail line by late March

2009-02-06

Construction will start by late March on a new passenger rail line between Shanghai and Hangzhou, a scenic city in east China's Zhejiang Province, a rail official said Friday.

The exact starting date for construction work won't be known until the National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's chief planning agency, approves a report on the project, according to Yu Jian'er, chairman of the board and general manager of Zhejiang Provincial Railway Investment Group Co Ltd.

The report was submitted on Dec 15, 2008, said Yu, and approval was likely in mid-February this year. Construction is forecast to take two years.

The line will be 159 km long, with 105 km in Zhejiang. Trains on the line will be able to run up to 350 km per hour, shortening the trip from Shanghai to Hangzhou to 38 minutes from more than one hour at present.

Yu confirmed that the Ministry of Railways, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Baosteel Group would invest in the project, which will cost 29.68 billion yuan ($4.37 billion).

Baosteel will invest about 2 billion yuan, with the ministry, Shanghai and Zhejiang sharing the rest of the cost equally.

Zhejiang Provincial Railway owns all railways in the province and will take charge of related operations.

A notice on the website of the company said the ministries of Environmental Protection and Land and Resources had approved the environmental impact and land use plans for the project on Jan 21.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-02/06/content_7452808.htm

First and third pictures show the same structure - Shenzhen Citizen center.

you are right! so there are no duplicates in Shenzhen :)

Evaluation On Lanzhou-XJ Railway

(Tianshannet) Updated: 2009-February-13 10:29:17

Entrusted by Nat'l Development and Reform Commission, the evaluation meeting on suggestion book of the newly-constructed 2nd double line of Lanzhou-xinjiang Railway was held in Urumqi on Feb. 12th.The 2-day meeting was presided by China international Engineering Consulting Corporation. Experts and personnels from Nat'l Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Railway, Xinjiang, Qinghai and Gansu discussed about the construction issues of the project together. Wang Lequan, member of the Political Bureau of CPC Central Committee, Secretary of CPC XJ Committee emphasized that we should grasp the opportunity that the state boost the domestic demand and accelerate the infrastructure construction, further optimize the plan at high stand and with high standard, to quicken the construction progress, and try to start the project in the 1st half of this year.

Nuer Baikli and other leaders of XJ attended the meeting.

The 2nd double line of the railway for passengers starts from Lanzhou City of Gansu Province in the east, and runs across Minhe County, Ledu County, Ping'an County and Xi'ning City, capital city of Qinghai Province, and then into Datong County, Menyuan County and crosses through Qilian Mountains to Hexi Corridor in Gansu Province,via Minle County, Zhangye City, Linze County,Jiuquan City, Jiayuguan City and Yumen City of Gansu and Hami City, Shanshan County，Turpan City of XJ, it finally arrives in Urumqi. The total length is 1,768 km with the predicted investment of 120 bln Yuan. It is estimated to start in 2009 and complete in 2013. On Oct. 30th,2008, the research on construction plan of the 2nd double line of the railway from Lanzhou to Urumqi was mapped out.

"Work to start on Shanghai-Hangzhou rail line by late March"

If they build a 350km/h dedicated line then why add a maglev line?

Plus now that their will be a metro line to the airport, why did they build the maglev in the first place?

^^ this has been discussed many times in other forums :)

both maglev and HSR won't be finished so soon. heavy traffic between shanghai-hangzhou will need up to 6-8 lines (like large cities in Japan) in the long run. now there's only one rail line available.

airport maglev and line 2 serves different route and purpose. maglev will connect to another hugh airport Hongqiao transportation hub. Slow line 2 serves passengers who are not very sensitive to time but sensitive to fares. Traffic volumn is another consideration after Pudong T3 and Hongqiao hub is finished.

Well I can understand the building of a 350km/h line even if its redundant.
The line will eventually go all the way to Changsha.

However the metro and maglev redundancy doesn't seem to make any sense. Even if the airports become very busy, I don't think traffic will exceed the capacity of the metro. I mean the Piccadilly Line to Heathrow does alright.

Although I can see the potential of the maglev to become a commuter train for Greater Shanghai. But with 4 stops, 2 of them at airports, I guess the idea of the maglev as a commuter train is not on the drawing board.

I don't know. The whole Transrapid project seems like a tremendous tax money black hole with the city government unwilling to admit it.

I won't be surprised if in 20 years the city admin will decide to convert it back to a regular rail line and then integrate into the greater railway system.

国产中低速磁浮实用型列车4月诞生

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-02-17/102617231355.shtml

In April, a Chinese-designed maglev train with a maximum speed of 120 km/h and which is suited for urban transportation purposes, will be unveiled.

However the metro and maglev redundancy doesn't seem to make any sense. Even if the airports become very busy, I don't think traffic will exceed the capacity of the metro.

As you mentioned earlier, the maglev line doesn't have enough stops to serve people who live along the line, therefore another metro line with denser stops is needed.

"I don't know. The whole Transrapid project seems like a tremendous tax money black hole with the city government unwilling to admit it."

I suspect it is a white elephant. It serves no purpose. It's just an expensive monument.

To avoid wasting so much money again, the lesson should be development should avoid building monuments but rather high quality infrastructure that serves many people.

192M rail trips during Spring Festival

2009-02-19

BEIJING -- About 192 million rail trips will be made during the 40-day Spring Festival travel period that started on January 11 and ends Thursday, up 10.6 percent year-on-year, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways (MOR) said.

As of 6 pm Wednesday, 187 million railway tickets had been sold. And the busiest day was February 14, when the railways carried 5.929 million passengers, said Wang Yongping, the spokesman.

At a press conference on January 10, Wang had estimated that 188 million people would take trains during the 40-day period, an increase of 8 percent over the same period of 2008.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-02/19/content_7493202.htm

MOR to buy electric engines

2009-02-21

The Ministry of Railways has contracted the construction of 1,200 clean and energy-efficient electric locomotives to replace the diesel-powered engines on various lines.

Prototypes of the electric locomotives, developed by China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co Ltd (CSR), were showcased earlier this month.


The model, which is a 9.6-megawatt six-axle AC transmission electric locomotive, completed its trial run in CSR's Zhuzhou facilities in Hunan province last Friday.

The Ministry of Railways has signed a purchase agreement of intention with Zhuzhou Electric Locomotives, the CSR's unit that builds the engines, Xu Zongxiang, general manager of CSR, told a press briefing in Zhuzhou. The order is valued at 27 billion yuan ($3.95 billion). And the ministry has placed a firm order of 500 locomotives, Xu said.

CSR independently designed and manufactured the locomotive and owned all the related intellectual property rights.

The company said it aims to turn Zhuzhou, a heavy industry city of Hunan province, into the world's largest electric locomotive manufacturing base. It has invested about 1 billion yuan to expand and upgrade its electric locomotives production lines.

Zheng Changhong, president of CSR, said the achievement in self-innovation will largely boost the nation's railway modernization process and put the domestic locomotives manufacturing technology in line with the world's most advanced level.

China is quickening its steps to develop electric locomotives to replace diesel locomotives in recent years, to save more fuel and exhaust less gas emission, said Zhang Shuguang, director of the transportation bureau with the ministry.

"The annual electric energy consumption of one set of electric locomotive is 500,000 yuan less than the annual fuel consumption of a diesel locomotive," said Zhang.

"The replacement of one diesel locomotive into electric locomotive could also equal to the reduction of gas emission of 4,000 vehicles," Zhang said.

There are currently about 17,000 sets of locomotives across the country, among which the number of electric locomotives stands under 6,000 sets, accounting for less than one third, according to Zhang.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-02/21/content_7499267.htm

From CSR:

January 16, 2009

The high-power AC-driven six-axle electric freight locomotive （9,600-kilowatt） with China’s independent intellectual property rights came offline at China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation Limited CSR. Independently designed and developed by CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd., known as the “cradle of Chinese electric locomotives”, the model, an integration of the world’s cutting-edge technologies for high-power AC-driven electric locomotives, is the world’s most advanced and powerful railway traction power equipment and will become one of the major models for heavy-load transportation on the main lines of Chinese railway, and may be rated as a landmark project for the modernization of Chinese railway locomotives.

In recent years, in a bid to fulfill the scientific concept of development and meet the requirement of the Central Government for building an innovative country, stepped up the independent innovation of China’s railways, and rapidly improved the modernization of railway equipment, the Ministry of Railways has mapped out the strategic goal of “mastering world top technologies, manufacturing world top products and building a world top base”, and has joined hands with Hunan Province to establish a world top railway equipment manufacturing platform.

As the leader in the development of electric locomotives in China, CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. seized hold of the opportunity to independently develop the world’s advanced harmonious high-power AC-driven six-axle 9,600-kilowatt electric locomotive on the basis of introducing the technology for high-power AC-driven eight-axle 9,600-kilowatt electric locomotive and successfully carried out the localization project, marking a good mastery of key technologies like integration of the world’s advanced high-power AC-driven electric locomotive systems by Chinese locomotive manufacturers.

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Railways keen to get Chinese help on high-speed trains
10 Feb 2009 TNN

CHENNAI: Indian Railways is planning to get technical support from China to operate high-speed trains along the four high-speed corridors identified
across the country, said Union minister of state for Railways R Velu.

"Chinese Railways has evinced interest in assisting Indian Railways to operate high-speed trains and also to set up world class railway stations," said the minister who recently led a high-level technical delegation to China.

He was speaking to reporters after flagging off a nine-car electric multiple unit (EMU) rake fitted with a regenerative braking system that saves power by 30% and a forced ventilation system that will pump in 16,000 cubic metre into the coaches, at Integral Coach Factory. The delegation studied the way China operated their high-speed trains and also constructed and designed their world class railway stations. Even their EMU trains run at 350 km per hour and are faster than trains in Japan, which run only at 270 km per hour.

Indian Railways has identified four corridors - Pune-Mumbai-Ahmedabad; Delhi-Amritsar-Chandigarh; Secunderabad-Vijayawada-Chennai; and Chennai-Bangalore-Coimbatore-Kochi - and pre-feasibility studies are on on the Mumbai-Pune and Delhi-Amritsar corridors.

Though Chinese Railways will have to participate in global tenders to involve in high-speed train projects in India, "we are keen to learn a lot from them because the trains are faster and the project costs are not too high. "It is estimated that railways will have to incur an operating cost of Rs 200 crore per kilometer for high-speed trains. But, the cost is not so high in China," he said.

The minister added: "We would like to adopt a couple of practices from China, especially in designing and operating world class railway stations. Their railway stations look like airports. The ground floor has X Ray machines to scan baggage and counters for selling tickets while the first floor has waiting halls and shopping malls."

Railway project gets under way
February 24, 2009

Construction of the Chengdu-Lanzhou railway to link Sichuan and Gansu provinces got under way on Saturday.

Scheduled for completion in December 2014, the 731-km line will cost almost 62 billion yuan ($9 billion) to build, and once completed will cut the journey time between the two cities from more than 17 hours to about four.

It is hoped the line will also boost economic development in Northwest and Southwest China, and provide a shot in the arm for tourism in northwest Sichuan and south Gansu province.

The line will link with the Lanzhou-Chongqing, Baoji-Chengdu, Sichuan-Qinghai and Sichuan-Tibetan lines, construction of which will also start this year.

Jiang Jufeng, governor of Sichuan, said the line will improve transport options between Northwest and Southwest China, with Lanzhou serving as a link between Southwest China and the economic belt along the Eurasia Bridge and the Central Asian Railway.

The new line will travel through Jiuzhaigou in northwest Sichuan and the Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture in southern Gansu.

Jiuzhaigou is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site and Gannan is also a popular tourist destination.

More than 60 percent of the passengers on the new route, between 250,000 and 280,000 a year, will be tourists, the Ministry of Railways said.

Three sections of the new line will pass the Minshan Mountains, which are home to giant pandas and other endangered animals and plants.

The construction team will build tunnels in the mountains and bridges so as not to disturb the wildlife. More than 90 percent of the three sections will be tunnels and bridges, the China Railway No 2 Engineering Group Co Ltd said.

Zhang Hemin, head of the Wolong Nature Reserve Administration Bureau, said the new line will have minimal impact on pandas.

Source: China Daily

Chengdu-Lanzhou: How fast? I'm guessing 250km/h?

^^ I don't think it's a HSR. it's running across the mountains and valleys, 78% of the total length of 731km is bridges/tunnels. Some say it's even more difficult to build than Qinghai-Tibet railway. So I don't even know if it's double-line or not.

Construction pictures at different railway & expressway project

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chinese are very hard working people

Thanks for great pictures.... I really liked them

Chinese mainland mulls cross-Straits rail linking Beijing, Taiwan

www.chinaview.cn 2009-03-12

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland is "actively planning" a cross-Taiwan Straits rail line linking Beijing with Taipei, Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun said Wednesday.

The rail via Fuzhou, capital of Fujian Province, will be part of the network that connects the mainland and Taiwan, said Liu.

The cross-Straits railway network, with its hub in Fujian Province, may also cover the inland cities of Kunming in the southwest and Hefei in the east, according to the plan.

In a meeting with Liu on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress, Lu Zhangong, chief of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, also proposed to plan a rail line that links Xiamen in Fujian and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

The ministry has been boosting railway construction in the coastal province of Fujian, planning 6,000 km of rails inside the province by 2015 with a total investment of 350 billion yuan (about 51.5 billion U.S. dollars).

The railway network is expected to lay a foundation of transport infrastructure for the "cross-Straits economic zone" proposed by some members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference during their annual session.

The zone may cover Fujian, provinces around it and Taiwan, according to the proposal.

The shortest distance between Xiamen and Taiwan is only 1,800 meters.

Fujian has started construction on a high-speed rail line linking provincial capital Fuzhou and Xiamen. The rail line is scheduled to be completed at the end of July and put into use in November.

The line would cut the trip from Fuzhou to Xiamen to one and a half hours, at least an hour shorter than the current expressway alternative.

The mainland and Taiwan signed a series of landmark agreements on direct air, sea transport and postal services last November. Such direct links formally started on Dec. 15.

Tourist rail, Dali-Lijiang rail to open in 2009

Length: 164.4km
Speed: 120kmph
Location: Yunnan Province
Project period: 3.5 years

Constructions pics:

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(baidu.com)

High-speed rails to slash travel time

2009-03-25

Two high-speed railways opening on April 1 will dramatically slash travel time between the hinterland and the coastal regions, a senior railway official said yesterday.

Stretching more than 350 km, the Hefei-Wuhan passenger railway, along with the Hefei-Nanjing lines opened last year, will provide the shortest link between Central China and East China's Yangtze River Delta region.

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"Riding a bullet train at 250 kph from Wuhan to Nanjing will need less than three hours, almost eight hours less than now," said Zhang Shuguang, chief of the transportation department of the Ministry of Railways.

Passengers traveling from Wuhan to Shanghai will also benefit, with travel time cut in half to only four hours and 45 minutes, he said.

The other new high-speed railway is the 190-km Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan railway linking the north and the west.

Zhang said the travel time between the capital cities of Hebei and Shanxi provinces will be cut from five hours to only one. Passengers traveling between Taiyuan and Beijing will need only three hours, a saving of more than five hours.

Airlines and bus companies, feeling the pinch from the new railways, are cutting prices.

Wuhan-based Chutian Metropolis News reported that discounts of up to 70 percent will be given to flights from Wuhan to Shanghai starting April 1. The cost of a bus ticket will be reduced from 185 yuan ($27) to 90 yuan tomorrow.

Starting next month, the ministry will add 89 pairs of passenger trains on a number of popular routes, increasing passenger capacity by 10.6 percent, Zhang said.

The ministry is also considering selling train tickets by phone and via the Internet, with regions such as Guangdong and Chongqing piloting the practices, he said.

China opened its first high-speed railway, the 350-kph Beijing-Tianjin route, last year.

At present, 200 bullet trains are zipping through major cities in China, Zhang said, with 600 more expected to be on the tracks by 2012, when China's high-speed rail network takes shape and securing a train ticket in peak travel seasons will no longer be a problem.

Some of the bullet trains will have sleepers for travelers.

In December, the ministry put such trains on the Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Hangzhou railways, charging a record 600 to 700 yuan for a sleeper ticket.

While many doubted the popularity of such trains, Zhang said an average occupancy rate of 70 percent is good enough.

"Passengers will see more half-empty trains than crowded ones in the future, thanks to the progress of longer railways and better and faster trains," he said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-03/25/content_7615623.htm

First electrified railway on Qinghai-Tibet Plateau opens

April 02, 2009

On April 1, the second line of the Lanzhou-Xining Railway and the upgrade to electric power project was completed and officially put into operation. As well as putting an end to the history of there being no electrified railway in Qinghai Province, this is China's first electrified railway to be built on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

The second line of Lanzhou-Xining Railway, which was upgraded to electric power, measures a total of 170 kilometers in length and is a double-track electrified national class I railway. Construction began on the project in April, 2006 and involved a total investment of 2.805 billion yuan.

According to Lu Yongzhong, general manager of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Corporation, with the project up and running, the traction power of trains will change from internal combustion engines to electric motors. Train tonnage has increased from the original 2,500 tons to 4,000 tons. The designed operation speed of trains has increased remarkably to 160 kilometers per hour, and transportation capacity will reach an annual total of over 80 million tons.

According to national railway construction plans, the newly-added second railway line of Lanzhou-Qinghai Railway will be connected with the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. By then, the overall transportation capacity and speed of the railways connecting Lanzhou, Xining and Lhasa will be accelerated. This will not only effectively ease the shortage in Qinghai Province of railway freight it will further enhance the overall function of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and provide strong support for the economic and social development of both Qinghai Province and the Tibet Autonomous Region.

By People's Daily Online

Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan Passenger Railway, 250 km/h, opened on April 1, 2009

This line cut the travel time between Shijiazhuang to Taiyuan from 04h59m to 01h13m.

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video:

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nice pictures.

Hefei-Wuhan HSR video:

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Beijing-Baotou rail (832km)

Rail started construction in 1905.
Latest renovation: double track project finished in 1989

pics taken 4.3.2009,

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Railway scenes in Guangzi Province

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Holy Cr$p man those are stunning pics!!!!! :cheers:

GREAT pictures, thanks...

you are welcome. I found many railway photos are stunning with different lanscapes in background. Will post more in the future :)

Landscape plus moving train equals great pictures.

The Polar Express

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(pics taken in Dalian, hasea.com)

^^ nice photos! Are heavy snow that common in Dalian?

Polar express is beautiful.:D

China Railway Erju Co announces 5 big orders

2009-04-09


China Railway Erju Co announced on Thursday that it has won five contracts worth a total of 4.61 billion yuan ($675 million), or 16 percent of its yearly target, benefiting from the country's infrastructure boom and the rebuilding efforts in earthquake-ravaged areas.

The Shanghai-listed builder said it won a 3 billion yuan contract for part of a railway upgrading project in Central China's Hunan province, the largest order among the five.

The construction company also booked an order to rebuild a town in Wenchuan county, the epicenter of last year's devastating earthquake, valued at 102 million yuan

The company won a 943 million yuan order to build part of an expressway in Sichuan province.

"The streams of orders and contracts will help the builder guarantee its rapid growth in the future," Guosen Securities said in a note to clients.

"The rebuilding in the earthquake zone and the construction of the Chengdu and Chongqing special economic zones will also generate more orders for the company," the securities house said.

China Railway Erju Co has booked 10.6 billion yuan worth of orders as of April 5, the company said.

The builder aims to garner 29.2 billion yuan in orders this year.

Its largest rivals have received even bigger order positions as the country steps up its spending efforts in infrastructure construction under the 4 trillion yuan economic stimulus package.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-04/09/content_7663382.htm

^^ it takes some time to read China Railway Erju Co

it's China Railway 2nd bureau. 中铁二局公司 :lol:

China railways carry record 6.54 mln passengers on May 1

www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-03

BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Chinese railways carried a record 6.54 million passengers on May 1, the first day of the three-day May Day holiday, as the country boosted capacity with faster trains and more seats, the Ministry of Railways said Sunday.

The number of passengers was 641,000 more than on the same day last year, up 10.9 percent, thanks to a capacity boost since the country launched a new railway schedule April 1 featuring faster trips and more seats.

The ministry said an average 66.5 new passenger trains were put into use every day on the new schedule, with an increase of 238,000 more seats every day.

The number of passengers on Friday has topped the previous daily passenger record.

The ministry said 5 million of the total had made medium- or short-distance trips, as people switched to shorter-distance trips to cope with the shorter holiday.

Chinese workers had seven days off, instead of the current three days, during the May Day holiday, before a new holiday system kicked in last year.

Passenger flow surged to 5.73 million on April 30, a day ahead of the May Day holiday running from Friday to Sunday, up 8.5 percent from a year ago.

High-speed railway to link China's west with biggest cities

www.chinaview.cn 2009-05-08

XI'AN, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China began Thursday to lay tracks for the first high-speed passenger line in its western region, which will ultimately shorten trips between the ancient capital of Xi'an and Beijing to four hours from the current 11.

The 500-km line linking Xi'an in northwestern Shaanxi Province with Zhengzhou in central Henan will run at up to 350 km per hour.

"When it becomes operational at the end of this year, a ride between the two cities will take less than two hours compared with the present six," said Li Hengman, deputy manager of the Zhengzhou-Xi'an Railway Company, operator of the 10.3-billion-U.S.dollar project.

He said the track-laying would be completed by June 10 and the railway was scheduled to be operational on Dec. 28.

Construction began in late 2005. It involved building tunnels in the craggy mountains and reinforcing the loose, sandy earth to support tracks and trains on the loess plateau.

The new route will connect to trunk railways including the north-south Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, while a trip from Shanghai to Xi'an will take only five hours compared with the current 15.

China's first inter-city express railway, the Beijing-Tianjin line running at more than 300 km/hr, opened in August. A trip takes 30 minutes.

Last month, China launched two 250-km-per-hour inter-city passenger lines, one connecting Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui Province, with Wuhan in central Hubei Province and the other, linking Shijiazhuang city near Beijing with Taiyuan in Shanxi Province.

The Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will be completed by 2012 and halve travel time to about five hours.

China upgrades railway to support quake zone reconstruction

China has started revamping a railway from Xi'an Province's Baoji to Sichuan Province's capital Chengdu to enhance the railway's transportation capacity and support rebuilding activities in the earthquake zone, sources reported.

On May 9, the Xi'an Railway Bureau assigned more than 5,000 workers and 150 oversize vehicles to start the repair work, which is expected to take 50 days.

The 8.0-magnitude earthquake that took place in Sichuan on May 12 last year destroyed the southern section of the railway and the No. 109 tunnel in Gansu Province.

The new tunnel, which will be made of steel-reinforced concrete, will have a length of 873 meters and will allow trains to reach speeds of 80km/h, whereas trains could previously go only 60km/h.

The Baoji-Chengdu route serves as a significant transportation passageway from North China to Sichuan, and played a significant role in carrying relief goods to Mianyang, Deyang and Wenchuan, places badly affected by the earthquake.

http://www.chinaknowledge.com/Newswires/News_Detail.aspx?type=1&NewsID=23465

Harbin Electric Expands into Linear Motor Based Freight Trains

May 19-2009

Harbin Electric, Inc. ("Harbin Electric" or the "Company"; Nasdaq: HRBN), a leading developer and manufacturer of a wide array of electric motors in the People's Republic of China, today announced that the Company has signed an agreement with a domestic Maglev technology company to co-develop a linear motor-driven freight train system for coal transportation. Under the agreement, the initial phase of the project is to build 850 meter long testing line in a coal mine in inner-Mongolia.

Once the testing line is validated, the project is expected to expand to a 32 km long coal transportation line in inner-Mongolia. Harbin Electric will be responsible to provide linear motor driving systems including the motors' primary and secondary components for the entire transportation line. For the initial testing line, the Company will deliver 5 linear motors to be integrated with the train along with a total of 850 meter long secondary components to be installed on the train track before the end of June 2009.

"I am very excited about this project," said Tianfu Yang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harbin Electric. "Not only because it is the first of its kind in the mining industry and in the electric motor industry in China, but also because it opens a new market potential for us and we believe that the potential is substantial."

Yang continued, "Energy plays a fundamental role in China's economic development and coal is a dominant component. It is used in all sectors of China's economy and in particular in coal-fired electricity generation. With rapid economic growth in China, increasing electricity consumption continuously drives the demand for coal higher. However, due to lack of efficient coal transportation systems in the mining industry, particularly from coal mines to shipping ports, power plants, freight hubs, etc., the cost for coal transportation in China has been steadily increasing, driving up coal prices continuously. The Chinese government has plans to control coal prices, one of which is to build efficient, automated, and modern coal transportation systems at mines in major coal producing provinces."

Yang added, "Linear motor technology can be customized for fast, safe, clean, efficient, unmanned, and low cost freight transportation. I am very pleased that the Company has been chosen to be a key player in building this system in inner-Mongolia. Inner Mongolia is a province with an abundance of natural resources such as coal. There are many provinces in China such as Shanxi and Yunnan that have abundant coal reserves. I believe that those provinces will also need this technology once this technology is validated."

Mr. Yang concluded, "This project is another demonstration of our ability to expand and penetrate new markets thanks to our strong R&D, flexible manufacturing platform and expertise in specialty electric motor technology. I am confident that we are well positioned to capture many opportunities like this in the future."

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CRH on Xi-Huang rail

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Hui zhou HSR bridge (U/C)

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That is a crowded crew :)

By Tong Hao (China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-25

Northeastern Jilin province is building China's largest manufacturing base for high-speed trains to meet the country's growing need for speedy railway transport. The base is scheduled for completion in June next year and will have an annual production capacity of 500 ordinary passenger train cars, 800 China Railway High-speed (CRH) train cars (for trains with speeds of more than 200 kilometers an hour) and 800 intra-city train cars (for trains with speeds of more than 120 km an hour). The manufacturing base was launched last May. Changchun Railway Vehicles Co Ltd (CRC), in the capital city of Jilin, will spend 2.5 billion yuan to complete the project.

The cars for the new Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail trains (the first that will run over 350 km an hour) will be built in the base by October 2011. According to the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010), the number of CRH trains will increase to about 1,000 in 2010. There are currently 200 in the country, most of which started service in 2007. The five-year plan also urges technological upgrading of high-speed trains, raising the percentage of homemade parts in the trains and speeding up research and development (R&D).

The manufacturing base includes a test center and R&D laboratory and CRC works with France's Alsthom Ltd and Germany's Siemens to design and produce the trains, according to the company's website. The percentage of homemade parts in the trains for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail produced by CRC will likely be 85 percent, said the xinhuanet.com.

According to a news release during this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in March, 45 percent of the 4-trillion-yuan stimulus package unveiled last year, or 1.8 trillion yuan, will be allocated for building railways, roads and airports. Demand for trains, especially high-speed trains, is high. China invested 118.04 billion yuan in fixed railway assets during the first four months of 2009, a 127.9 percent year-on-year increase, according the Ministry of Railways (MOR) website.

Liu Zhijun, minister of Railways said in a meeting on Dec 31, 2008 that total investment in the railway network in 2009 would be 600 billion yuan in 2009, almost twice as much as in 2008. Liu said the ministry currently has 70 railway projects planned for 2009 and 5,148 km of rail line will be built this year. The MOR will spend 500 billion yuan purchasing trains over the next four years as the rail network continues to develop, the MOR said earlier in 2008.

In March 2009, the MOR made a 39.2 billion yuan purchasing agreement with China CNR Corp Ltd, the controlling company of CRC. According to the agreement, CNR will produce 100 high-speed trains (40 from CRC) for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed Railway, which will be put into operation in 2011. Demand for trains on the new Beijing-Shanghai line will probably grow quickly and the MOR will likely purchase more high-speed trains, according to Zhang Shuguang, chief of the transportation department of the MOR.

The new Beijing-Shanghai line is part of the seventh rail system upgrade in China since 1997.

Dongpijng Shuidao Bridge joins on May 28. It's the longest span bridge on Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail

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By May 28th, Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail foundation is 100% completed, bridges 99.9%, tunnels 99.8%, track-laying 75%, electricity/communication installation 70%.

Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail will open on Dec 20 2009, the trial train speed is 375kmph.

It will extend to Beijing by end of 2011 or start of 2012, by then it will take only 8 hours by train from Beijing to Guangzhou (2400km).

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2009-05-29/040417909373.shtml

^^ WHAT THE F**K 8 hours for 2400 kms that is a 300 kmph average speed that is insanely fast . It is one thing go reach 350 kmph during the course of travel and a totally different thing to clock an average speed of 300 kmph whoa!!

Is there going to be an express rail between Hong kong and beijing ? and is there going tobe an express rail between hong kong and shanghai

^^ yes the news also mentioned the extension of Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail to Shenzhen/Hongkong after 2009.

Shanghai and Wuhan already have HSR connected, so it is possible for a Shanghai-Hongkong express rail after Wuhan-Guangzhou and extension lines are completed.

Dongpijng Shuidao Bridge joins on May 28. It's the longest span bridge on Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail

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By May 28th, Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail foundation is 100% completed, bridges 99.9%, tunnels 99.8%, track-laying 75%, electricity/communication installation 70%.

Wuhan-Guangzhou express rail will open on Dec 20 2009, the trial train speed is 375kmph.

It will extend to Beijing by end of 2011 or start of 2012, by then it will take only 8 hours by train from Beijing to Guangzhou (2400km).

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What shall the travel time between Guangzhou and Wuhan be this December? And what shall the travel times be, in end of December, on lines Guangzhou-Beijing (old rails Wuhan-Beijing), Guangzhou-Nanjing (new HSR already open Wuhan.Nanjing) and Guangzhou-Shanghai (old rails Nanjing-Shanghai)?

Also, have high-speed sleeper trains been completed?

Chinese coal will travel by maglev
China is installing two prototype magnetically levitated (maglev) systems for transporting coal in Inner Mongolia in an attempt to increase transport speeds and efficiencies, and to reduce pollution.

The first system is being co-developed by the Chinese motor manufacturer Harbin Electric and a domestic Maglev (magnetic levitation) technology specialist. The first phase of the project – to build a 850m-long linear motor-driven freight test track at a coal mine – is already underway.

Once the test track has been validated, the project is expected to expand to a 32km-long coal transportation line in Inner Mongolia, with Harbin providing the linear motor drive systems. For the test track, it is delivering five linear motors to be integrated into the train, and an 850m length of secondary components, due to be installed by the end of this month.

“I am very excited about this project,” says Harbin’s chairman and CEO, Tianfu Yang. “Not only because it is the first of its kind in the mining industry and in the electric motor industry in China, but also because it opens a new market potential for us and we believe that the potential is substantial.

“Linear motor technology can be customised for fast, safe, clean, efficient, unmanned, and low-cost freight transportation,” he adds.

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The second maglev system is being developed by a joint venture between US-based Magplane Technology, and Chinese partners. This will use a tubular maglev system called MagPipes to move coal from Mongolian mines. A 32-acre (12.9ha) facility (shown above) is being built at Baotou in Inner Mongolia, which will be able to build up 200km of MagPipes a year. Production of components has been sub-contracted to Chinese suppliers.

China is heavily dependent on coal for energy, However, the lack of efficient methods for transporting coal from mines to ports, power plants and freight hubs, has been driving up the price of coal. The Chinese government sees efficient, automated transportation systems at coal mines as being a way to control these costs.

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China Rolls Out Self-made Practical Maglev

Mon. June 15, 2009; Posted: 08:39 AM

TANGSHAN, Jun 15, 2009

-- Beijing Enterprises Holdings Maglev Technology Development Co., Ltd. rolls out the first Chinese-developed practical maglev sample from its R & D base in Tangshan City, north China on June 15, 2009.

With a designed speed of 120 kilometers per hour, the maglev is composed of eight carriages, each of which is capable of serving 168 passengers in comfort. It is suited to populous cities, where its working noise can hardly be heard five meters away. Besides, the rain has small turning radius and strong climbing capacity, according to the company's vice general manager Wang Ping.

Presently, the maglev producer is negotiating about utilization of such trains domestically, Mr. Wang said, adding that his company is capable of mass production. However, these deals are ultimately subject to local governments.

In fact, Beijing Enterprises Holdings Maglev Tech has been engaged in maglev R&D for more than ten years. During the period, it established an over-200-meter-long experimentation line in the central Chinese city of Changsha, and the Tangshan experimentation line is 1.5 kilometers long.

Source: www.beijingtimes.com.cn (June 15, 2009)

China starts building railway to desolate Lop Nur

www.chinaview.cn 2009-06-17

URUMQI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- China Tuesday began building a railway to the Lop Nur, a former lake area known as "the sea of death" in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Construction the 360-kilometer railway from Hami Prefecture on the China-Mongolia border to the Lop Nur near China's largest desert, the Taklamakan, started Tuesday and would take about two years, said Nur Bekri, chairman of the Xinjiang regional government, Wednesday.

The two places are linked by a highway that opened in 2006.

The 3.28-billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) railway would provide easier access to, and speed up exploitation of, the region's potassium salt, one of China's rarest resources used in fertilizer production, he said. The area has an estimated 500 million tonnes of reserves, valued at more than 500 billion yuan.

Without adequate exploitation of the Lop Nur's potassium salt resources, China's total reserve is about 457 million tonnes, less than 3 percent of the world total. The country imports at least 4 million tonnes of potassium fertilizer every year.

"When the railway opens, it will be easier to transport Lop Nur's potassium salt," said Wang Huisheng, president of State Development and Investment Corp.

The state-owned investment holding giant launched a potassium fertilizer production base in the Lop Nur at the end of last year, which produces 1.2 million tonnes a year. "The second phase of the production base will be launched in 2014, with a designed annual output of 3 million tonnes, Wang said.

Along the Hami-Lop Nur railway is also a leading coal base, which has more than 23 billion tonnes of proven reserves. "The railway will provide strong logistic support to the building of a huge coal-fired power generation base in Hami," he said.

The railway is also a boon to adventurers and tourists, most ofwhom used to hitchhike to the Lop Nur unless they could drive all the way across the desert region themselves.

"I'm waiting to take my next expedition trip to the Lop Nur by train," said Wang Baowei, an amateur adventurer based in Urumqi.

At least 11 railways are under construction in Xinjiang. By 2020, the region's total rail mileage will top 10,000 kilometers compared with the present 3,000 kilometers.

The Lop Nur was the largest lake in northwestern China before it dried up in 1972 as a result of desertification and environmental degradation.

It once nurtured the civilization of Loulan (Kroraina). The ancient city was one of the pivotal stops along the famous Silk Road, but mysteriously disappeared around the third century AD.

Due to its typical geology, geography and historical values, the Lop Nur has attracted the attention of scientists from home and abroad since the mid 19th century.

In 1980, Peng Jiamu, a noted Chinese scientist, went missing on his fourth expedition to the Lop Nur and was never found.

Fuzhou-Wenzhou high-speed railway on trial run

2009-06-30

FUZHOU: The first high-speed railway in China's coastal mountainous Fujian Province began trials Tuesday, local authorities said.

The railway, linking Fujian's capital Fuzhou and Wenzhou City in neighbouring Zhejiang Province, began trials at 8:36 a.m. in Fuzhou. This is the first railway linking the two provinces, said an official with the Fujian Development and Reform Commission.

The railway will be formally put into use in October, the official said.

The 298.4-kilometer-long railway costs 12.66 billion yuan (US$1.85 billion). Nearly 230 kilometers are in Fujian.

The railway has a design speed of 200 to 250 kilometers per hour for passenger trains, and the journey between the two cities will be shortened from five hours to two hours. Construction began in August 2005.

The new line will be an important section of China's coastal railway artery. The other two railway lines in the project, including one rail linking Shenzhen City in Guangdong Province and Xiamen City in Fujian, and the other linking Fuzhou and Xiamen, are still under construction and are expected to be finished in 2010 and 2009 respectively.

"By then, the railways will stretch along China's booming southeast coast, linking the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, China's two biggest economic powerhouses," said Yu Xuanming, deputy general manager of the Southeast Coast Railway Fujian Co. Ltd., the railway operator.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/30/content_8339729.htm

D-trains available from Beijing to Tangshan starting July 1

2009-06-30

Starting from July 1, multiple unit (MU) trains will run between Beijing and Tangshan for the first time. The railway schedule for July 1 shows that several pairs of trains have been added to Beijing-Shenyang North and Beijing-Changchun railway lines. Of these, four trains will stop at Tangshan North Station, and it takes 58 minutes to travel from Beijing to Tangshan.

At 6:00 pm on June 25, in Beijing Railway’s network ticketing system, ticket information for D3 trains from Beijing to Shenyang North was already available for July 1. The trains will stop at Tangshan. However, printed tickets for D3 trains to Tangshan North Station were still unavailable. Railway insiders said that ticket prices for these MU trains will be shared on the network.

Reporters learned that in the past the trains running between Beijing and Tangshan were mainly passenger express trains and high-speed trains. It took 1 hour and 50 minutes for the fastest train to travel between Beijing and Tangshan.

Meanwhile, a Beijing-Tangshan special railway line with designed speed of 350 km per hour is planned to be constructed. Hopefully, the construction will start before October 1, 2009. These special trains will run through Tongzhou District in Beijing, Xianghe County in Hebei Province, Baodi District in Tianjin as well as Yutian County and Fengrun District in Tangshan, with seven planned stations along the line. After it is put into operation, it will take about 38 minutes to travel from Beijing to Tangshan.

　

Four D-trains will stop at Tangshan North Station

D3 train from Beijing to Shenyang North

To depart from Beijing Railway Station at 5:30 pm

To arrive in Tangshan at 6:28 pm

D7 train from Beijing to Shenyang North

To depart from Beijing Railway Station at 6:29 pm

To arrive in Tangshan at 7:27 pm

D4 train from Shenyang North to Beijing

To depart from Tangshan North Station at 11:01 am

To arrive in Beijing at 11:59 am

D24 train from Changchun to Beijing

To depart from Tangshan North Station at 12:29 pm

To arrive in Beijing at 13:27 pm

Translated by LOTO

Guangzhou new railway station construction news

　广州新火车站酷似"太空基地"，本报记者探营发现

　　●总建筑面积比白云机场第一航站楼还大

　　●总用钢量达到7.9万吨，约为“鸟巢”的1.7倍


Larger than Guangzhou Baiyun airport Terminal I
More steel usage than "Bird Nest"

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