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Trial run of Hong Kong Section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link completed
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-17 14:47:29|Editor: Li Xia


The trial run of the Hong Kong Section of XRL has been completed on Thursday. The 26-km Hong Kong section of the XRL links up Hong Kong with the mega high-speed rail network of the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai)

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Trial run of Hong Kong Section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link completed
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-17 14:47:29|Editor: Li Xia


The trial run of the Hong Kong Section of XRL has been completed on Thursday. The 26-km Hong Kong section of the XRL links up Hong Kong with the mega high-speed rail network of the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai)

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Hong Kong section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway to be operational next month
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-23 19:30:35|Editor: mmm



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Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Hong Kong Sepcial Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Frank Chan Fan (2nd R) attends a press conference on the operating arrangements for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) in Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 23, 2018. Chan announced Thursday that the operating arrangements for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) would be commissioned on Sept. 23 to connect with the national high-speed rail network, offering direct trains to 44 destinations. (Xinhua/Liu Yongdong)

HONG KONG, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A transport official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Thursday that the Hong Kong section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway will start operation on Sept. 23.

Secretary for Transport and Housing of the HKSAR government Frank Chan told a press conference that the cross-border high-speed railway will offer direct services to 44 mainland destinations, among which 38 to be long-haul destinations.

According to Chan, the first train will depart at 7 a.m. local time on Sept. 23 from Hong Kong's West Kowloon station to Shenzhenbei station, with the price of the second-class train ticket to be at 86 Hong Kong dollars (about 10.96 U.S. dollars) for the 26-km section.
 
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Sunday, August 26, 2018, 10:43
HK shows great enthusiasm for 1st high-speed railway
By Xinhua

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The Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link will start operation on Sept 23 this year. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY)

HONG KONG - "It's a milestone in Hong Kong's transportation. I'm looking forward to visiting the station and its facilities," said Hong Kong resident Mr Wan, who had waited for more than two hours to get tickets to visit the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, terminus to the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL).

The West Kowloon Station will be open to public next week before the Hong Kong's first XRL section, which will link Hong Kong with the mega high-speed rail network of the mainland, starts operation on Sept 23. A large number of Hong Kong people lined up to get free-admission tickets for visit on Saturday.

PHOTOS: Tickets for West Kowloon Station open days snapped up quick

Wan and his wife were among the early birds who arrived at the distribution point in Heng Fa Chuen on the Hong Kong Island as early as 6 am local time to get the tickets. The first ticket was handed out at around 8:30 am, half an hour earlier than originally planned to facilitate the crowd flow.

The MTR finished distributing all 20,000 tickets before noon.

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Mr Lee poses with admission tickets to the open days of the Hong Kong West Kowloon Station. He was at the head of the queue for the distribution of the free admission tickets at Fo Tan Railway House, Hong Kong on Aug 25, 2018. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

"I'm curious about how the station really looks like," said elementary student Attalas Lam, who said he was interested in railways and it was worth the waiting time even though he needed to get up much earlier than he did during school days.

A shopping mall in Tseung Kwan O, New Territories of Hong Kong, was another ticket distribution point also with swarming crowds.

READ MORE: High-speed trains to go even faster

Mrs Wong and her family fetched their tickets after lining up for 1.5 hours.

"My son is fascinated with railways and that's why I'm here," said Wong, a working mom from the tourism sector, who expected the XRL to bring more tourists to Hong Kong.

ALSO READ: 5 steps before boarding for HK high-speed rail passengers

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Passengers take a ride on the high-speed rail during a media preview of Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link on Aug 16, 2018. (ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY)

The cross-border high-speed railway will offer direct services to 44 mainland destinations, among which 38 to be long-haul.

READ MORE: All aboard: China's high-speed rail 10 years on

Frank Chan, Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, said earlier that the commissioning of the XRL can enhance the long-term development opportunities for sustainable growth in trades including tourism, commerce and professional services.

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A staff poses for photos during a media preview of Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link on Aug 16, 2018. (ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY)

Lau Kook-yuk, 78, was excited about the West Kowloon Station visit. She told Xinhua that she had always wanted to travel to Beijing and the high-speed railway was a better option for her besides taking a flight.

Lau, a retired teacher, also hoped the XRL would encourage more young people in Hong Kong to travel across the mainland so as to learn more about the development of the motherland.

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Francis Li (3rd right), Chief of Operating of MTR, poses for photos with train crew and station staff during a media preview of Hong Kong section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link on Aug 16, 2018. (ROY LIU / CHINA DAILY)
 
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Monday, September 10, 2018, 12:04
HK high-speed rail ticket sales kick off at West Kowloon Station
By chinadailyasia.com

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People queue up to buy tickets for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link at the West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, Sept 10, 2018. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

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A man joins the queue to buy tickets for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link at the West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, Sept 10, 2018. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

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A man holds up tickets for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link as he poses for a photo with Lincoln Leong (center), MTR Corporation's chief executive officer, and Adi Lau (left), MTR Corporation's operations director, at the West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, Sept 10, 2018. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

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This Sept 10, 2018 photo shows customers buying tickets for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link at the purchasing counters in West Kowloon Station, Hong Kong. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

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China Daily Hong Kong staff pose for a photo with their tickets for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link at the West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong, Sept 10, 2018. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)
 
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World's top trains roll on Chinese wheels
By Zhu Lixin in Hefei | China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-10 10:24
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A quality-control engineer inspects a high-speed train wheel at the plant of Ma Steel in Ma'anshan, East China's Anhui province. [Photo by Zhang Mingwei/For China Daily]

Deutsche Bahn's new order confirms Ma Steel products' quality, supremacy

A shipment of 160 Chinese-manufactured high-speed train wheels arrived in Germany on July 20, according to exporter Ma'anshan Iron & Steel Group, more widely known as Magang Group or Ma Steel.

Based in Ma'anshan city of East China's Anhui province, Ma Steel is the first Chinese company to export high-speed train wheels.

The deal for wheels was signed between Ma Steel and German railway company Deutsche Bahn or DB AG in the second half of 2017. The Chinese wheels will be used in the latter's ICE high-speed trains.

"The exported wheels, which will meet the repairing need of different models of ICE trains, permit speeds up to 320 kilometers per hour," said Liu Liu, deputy director of the quality supervision department of Ma Steel's train wheel and axle sector.

Production of the wheels is carried out by Ma'anshan Iron& Steel Co Ltd, a publicly traded company controlled by the Ma Steel group. Its shares are listed in both the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong.

The wheels were first delivered to France at the end of May and later re-packaged at Valdunes, a France-based high-speed train wheel manufacturer and subsidiary of Ma Steel, according to Liu.

"They were manufactured in our Ma'anshan-based plant, whose packaging process is different from DB's requirement," said Liu.

Ma Steel acquired Valdunes in 2014 for 13 million euros ($14,69 million), after the French company entered a bankruptcy restructuring process. Ma Steel's acquisition saved 487 jobs.

Specializing in the design and manufacture of wheels, axle-and-wheels sets (two wheels and an axle), Valdunes is the sole supplier of these sets for TGV high-speed trains, holders of the world rail trial speed record of 574.8 km per hour.

Ma Steel became DB's first Chinese train wheel supplier in 2009 to provide 300 wheels for cargo trains.

Orders from DB has been steadily rising since then. A previous media report said by June of 2015, Ma Steel had shipped over 10,000 wheels for passenger and cargo trains of DB.

Heike Hanagarth, board member of DB, had told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a German newspaper, that a part of the company's demand for train wheels sets - 35,000 annually - would be met by its Chinese partners beginning 2017.

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A worker of Valdunes, a French high-speed train wheel manufacturer, repackages the Ma Steel high-speed train wheels to be shipped to Germany. [Photo provided to China Daily]

In November 2017, Ma Steel bagged a new order from DB to provide 4,200 wheel sets for its trains. Another 1,500 sets were then added to the deal. The recently exported high-speed train wheels were not included in the order for wheel sets, said Liu.

"Germany enjoys a large railway network and has many world-leading railway companies. As a leading company in the country, DB is very strict about product quality, so cooperation with the company is a good testimony to our strengths," said Liu.

As one of China's largest steel makers, Ma Steel is the country's first train wheel manufacturer and has exported train wheels to over 70 countries and regions, most of which are participating in the China-led Belt and Road Initiative.

Though wheel manufacturing consumes just 2 to 3 percent of Ma Steel's iron and steel production, it has been one of the most profitable components of the group for decades.

Train wheels are now a major part of the group's business. It supplies 90 percent of the wheels for the cars of China's traditional non-high-speed trains.

With the rapid development of China's high-speed railway systems, both at home and abroad, Ma Steel is aiming to seize a significant market share in the emerging and rapidly developing market.

Ma Steel signed an agreement in 2012 with the China Academy of Railway Sciences, the top railway research and development body, to import and localize manufacturing for heavy-load locomotive wheels and wheels for high-speed trains traveling faster than 250 km/h.

It has also completed a 600,000-kilometer test at the China Railway Test and Certification Center to supply wheels for China's high-speed rail network, the largest in the world.

Ma Steel's wheels have been applied in part in China's two models of high-speed trains since 2015, while most of the trains still rely on imported wheels.

The country launched the Fuxing, or Rejuvenation, high-speed trains, which are entirely designed and manufactured in China and use Ma Steel's wheels.

In a previous media report, Ma Steel executives said the group will build high-speed train wheels into a new engine of growth in the near future.
 
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China becomes world’s first country with complete high-speed rail network
(People's Daily Online) 08:57, September 14, 2018
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China’s “four vertical and four horizontal high-speed railway network” has almost been completed, making China the world’s first country with a complete high-speed rail network in operation, said a report released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Sept. 12, Workers’ Daily reported.

The report said that China’s total railway line mileage reached 127,000 kilometers by the end of 2017, up 145.6 percent from 1978, with an average annual growth of 2.3 percent. The distance of China’s high-speed rail hit 25,200 kilometers, topping the global chart.

The figure for electrified railways and double-track rail in China is currently 86,600 and 71,800 kilometers, accounting for 68.2 percent and 56.5 percent of the country’s total railway mileage, ranking first and second in the world respectively, according to the report.

The report also pointed out that high-speed rail not only brings convenience to people’s lives, but also promotes sharing of regional resources and coordinates development of many financial circles, such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei economic circle and the Pearl River Delta economic circle.

Additionally, the report noted that China’s total expressway coverage reached 136,400 kilometers by the end of 2017, ranking first in the world, covering 97 percent of cities with a population of 200,000 or above.

People's Daily,China‏ Verified account @PDChina
“Four vertical and four horizontal high-speed railway network” will make China the world’s first country with a complete high-speed rail network in operation, said a recent report released by the National Bureau of Statistics

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China tests longest high-speed railway in cold northeastern region
New China TV
Published on Sep 16, 2018

China is expected to open its longest high-speed railway in a northeastern area neighboring Siberia. The 343-kilometer line links Harbin with Jiamusi, both in Heilongjiang Province. It has been undergoing tests for four months. It is designed for both passenger and freight transportation with a speed of 200 km per hour. It will shorten the travel time between Harbin and Jiamusi by train to 110 minutes from about 360 minutes.
 
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Hong Kong section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway to be operational next month
Source: Xinhua| 2018-08-23 19:30:35|Editor: mmm



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Secretary for Transport and Housing of the Hong Kong Sepcial Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Frank Chan Fan (2nd R) attends a press conference on the operating arrangements for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) in Hong Kong, south China, Aug. 23, 2018. Chan announced Thursday that the operating arrangements for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL) would be commissioned on Sept. 23 to connect with the national high-speed rail network, offering direct trains to 44 destinations. (Xinhua/Liu Yongdong)

HONG KONG, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A transport official of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government said on Thursday that the Hong Kong section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway will start operation on Sept. 23.

Secretary for Transport and Housing of the HKSAR government Frank Chan told a press conference that the cross-border high-speed railway will offer direct services to 44 mainland destinations, among which 38 to be long-haul destinations.

According to Chan, the first train will depart at 7 a.m. local time on Sept. 23 from Hong Kong's West Kowloon station to Shenzhenbei station, with the price of the second-class train ticket to be at 86 Hong Kong dollars (about 10.96 U.S. dollars) for the 26-km section.
Opening ceremony of Mainland-HK high speed rail held
China Daily Asia
Published on Sep 21, 2018

Government leaders from Hong Kong and Guangdong province officiated at the opening ceremony for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), held at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Station Saturday morning.
 
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Opening ceremony of Mainland-HK high speed rail held
China Daily Asia
Published on Sep 21, 2018

Government leaders from Hong Kong and Guangdong province officiated at the opening ceremony for the Hong Kong Section of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (XRL), held at Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Station Saturday morning.

China is growing smaller as HSR links and ties the remote parts into one giant national network of fast, convenient and quality transportation.

Please add Taiwan to the network and the web is complete more or less :enjoy:
 
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China is growing smaller as HSR links and ties the remote parts into one giant national network of fast, convenient and quality transportation.

Please add Taiwan to the network and the web is complete more or less :enjoy:
Will trial Hainan Island-Guangdong HSR link first then use that know-how for Taiwan Province!
 
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