Chongqing-Wanzhou High-speed Railway to open on 28 November

[AndrewJin]

This is a remarkable achievement! It remains me the famous poem by Libai in Tang dynasty describing the difficulty of traveling to Sichuan.

噫吁戏，危乎高哉！
ah, yikes! So dangerous, so high!
蜀道之难，难于上青天！
The difficulty of the Shu Road is more difficult than going up to the blue sky.
蚕丛及鱼凫，开国何茫然。
Can Cong and Yu Fu, their founding of the state of (Shu) is so obscure.
尔来四万八千岁，不与秦塞通人烟。
Up to the present, it has been forty-eight thousand years, Shu has never been communicating with people live at Qin pass.
西当太白有鸟道，可以横绝峨眉巅。
Its west faces Mt. Tai Bai, there are routes only for birds to fly through to reach horizontally to the summit of Er Mei mountain.
Translation credits to www.chinesetolearn.com

I am sure if he lives toady and found he can travel with HSR, he would be very impressed and create another beautiful poem to praise this remarkable achievement.

haha, the real Shu Road, from Sichuan to Shannxi will be replaced by Chengdu-Xi'an HSR soon!

https://defence.pk/threads/china-hs...ginal-translation.363685/page-92#post-8043970
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi'an–Chengdu_High-Speed_Railway

Now, the expressways at the provincial border region are also very convenient.

Don't forget Baoji-Chengdu Railway built in 1950s!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baoji–Chengdu_Railway
The Baocheng Line runs from the plains of the Sichuan Basin to the Wei River Valley. It traverses the Qin Mountains, the east-west range that divides northern from southern China. The line has 304 tunnels and 1,001 bridges, which collectively account for 17% of the total track length.[1]

@powastick @anant_s @AViet

 

[JSCh]

High-speed train runs through China's Three Gorges region
Source: Xinhua 2016-11-28 09:34:49

CHONGQING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The first high-speed railway running through China's Three Gorges reservoir region started operation Monday.

At 7:06 a.m., the C6402 Train departed from Chongqing North Station, marking the operation of the 247-km-long railway, which connects Wanzhou City, where the Three Gorges is located, and Chongqing Municipality.

At the initial stage, 21 pairs of trains are scheduled every day between Wanzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province.

With a designed speed of 250 km per hour, high-speed trains on the line will cut travel time from four hours to one and half hours from Wanzhou to Chongqing. The travel time between Wanzhou and Chengdu is halved to three and half hours as the new line is connected to the section between Chengdu and Chongqing.

Construction of the railway started in 2013, with seven stations built. As the line traverses through the mountainous Three Gorges region, the added length of bridges and tunnels accounts for up to 71 percent of the total length of the railway.

Liu Zheng, an official with the Chengdu Railway Bureau, said the Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway links China's southwestern part with the central and northern regions, which will help with development in the Three Gorges region as well as the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

 

[AndrewJin]

LMAO, on the same day, the number of tickets sold at Coach Terminal is only 10%!
http://news.163.com/16/1128/19/C700V7IN000187VG.html

 

[AndrewJin]

@cirr @powastick @long_ Two bullet trains on the same direction!
Chongqing-Wanzhou HSR
and Chongqing-Lichuan HSR

High-speed train runs through China's Three Gorges region
Source: Xinhua 2016-11-28 09:34:49

CHONGQING, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The first high-speed railway running through China's Three Gorges reservoir region started operation Monday.

At 7:06 a.m., the C6402 Train departed from Chongqing North Station, marking the operation of the 247-km-long railway, which connects Wanzhou City, where the Three Gorges is located, and Chongqing Municipality.

At the initial stage, 21 pairs of trains are scheduled every day between Wanzhou, Chongqing and Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province.

With a designed speed of 250 km per hour, high-speed trains on the line will cut travel time from four hours to one and half hours from Wanzhou to Chongqing. The travel time between Wanzhou and Chengdu is halved to three and half hours as the new line is connected to the section between Chengdu and Chongqing.

Construction of the railway started in 2013, with seven stations built. As the line traverses through the mountainous Three Gorges region, the added length of bridges and tunnels accounts for up to 71 percent of the total length of the railway.

Liu Zheng, an official with the Chengdu Railway Bureau, said the Chongqing-Wanzhou high-speed railway links China's southwestern part with the central and northern regions, which will help with development in the Three Gorges region as well as the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

This is only the first section, Wanzhou-Xiangyang-Zhengzhou HSR is more important!

 

[AndrewJin]

Tourists can take buses directly from HSR stations to tourist sites!

Yunyang

Longevity Lake, only several km from Changshouhu Station (Longevity Lake Station).

Wanzhou Waterfall

Fengjie Sky Hole

@terranMarine @TaiShang @Keel @GeraltofRivia @Tiqiu

 

[GeraltofRivia]

Tourists can take buses directly from HSR stations to tourist sites!

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Yunyang
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Longevity Lake, only several km from Changshouhu Station (Longevity Lake Station).
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Wanzhou Waterfall
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Fengjie Sky Hole
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@terranMarine @TaiShang @Keel @GeraltofRivia @Tiqiu

These places are soooo beautiful, which probably is why Chinese have never been very interested in exploring the outside world as we have all the good stuff.

 

[terranMarine]

What a paradise, China simply has lots of the best sceneries on Earth. Breathtaking unmatched beauties which are only found in China.

 

[AndrewJin]

These places are soooo beautiful, which probably is why Chinese have never been very interested in exploring the outside world as we have all the good stuff.

Chongqing Municipality herself has much to offer!

 

[AndrewJin]

What a paradise, China simply has lots of the best sceneries on Earth. Breathtaking unmatched beauties which are only found in China.

To locals who are familiar with natural scenery, they are now more excited about the first HSR to their hometowns!

 

[AndrewJin]

One week later, passengers CHOOSE bullet trains over coach!
80% less passengers on the bus!
80 coaches on Chongqing-Wanzhou route, now only 27!


Empty coach station for Chongqing-Wanzhou expressway

Wanzhou North Railway Station

 

[TaiShang]

What a paradise, China simply has lots of the best sceneries on Earth. Breathtaking unmatched beauties which are only found in China.

Exactly. One can spend an entire life strolling around (Greater) China and would still not be quite done. It is so amazing and with development it is becoming even more magnanimous.

 

[Jlaw]

Exactly. One can spend an entire life strolling around (Greater) China and would still not be quite done. It is so amazing and with development it is becoming even more magnanimous.

No need to really travel abroad. All you see in West us ghetto areas in downtown

 

[qwerrty]

Fengjie Sky Hole
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@terranMarine @TaiShang @Keel @GeraltofRivia @Tiqiu

this is the place where useless limp dick protagonist fall down here in many wuxia's stories and meet with supa kungfu master or found long lost supa secret martial art book

 

[AndrewJin]

No need to really travel abroad. All you see in West us ghetto areas in downtown

Now, travellers can travel to many far districts and counties in Chongqing.
More regions to be connected to HSR network when the whole Chongqing-Zhengzhou HSR opens.