China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[cirr]

Zhuzhou's new 8-axis 11200KW 200kph locomotive @AndrewJin

 

[AndrewJin]

Wow, gigantic and powerful locomotive. Very useful for heavy haul freight railway.

Just finished middle tiger leaping gorge hike and in SUV back to Lijiang. Let me share some photos

starting from a village road, about 2-3 hours to and back from the shore

The first part, very open view

Most tourists go to upper gorge where all infra is built by local government, very good amenities. But hiking route in middle gorge is built by local villagers, u have to pay extra 10-15yuan.

Heaven ladder or u can choose longer "safe road"

Tiger leaping rock!

 

[AndrewJin]

Zhuzhou's new 8-axis 11200KW 200kph locomotive @AndrewJin

 

[AndrewJin]

Bad News!
Due to project adjustment(change of terminal station), Meizhou-Shantou HSR will receive environmental impact assessment again. The operational time is expected to be delayed to 2019 from 2018.

因项目重大调整 梅汕高铁延迟一年通车
2015-07-14 来源：广州日报
梅汕高铁因项目重大调整需重新环评，并再次公示。起始点从梅州南站调整为了梅州西站。本来去年第二次环评预计是2018年可以建成通车，但今年4月底才开工，预计要延迟到2019年才能竣工通车。

@AndrewJin
Brother are Tap changing electric locomotives still being manufactured (at this moment) or have manufacturing shifted completely to IGBT/GTO based locos?

The latter one more popular now.

 

[rott]

I still love slower trains with speed of max 150 to 160.
In these trains you get to absorb the beautiful scenic places.
While in HSR, everything gets past you before you could even say, "beautiful... ".

 

[AndrewJin]

I still love slower trains with speed of max 150 to 160.
In these trains you get to absorb the beautiful scenic places.
While in HSR, everything gets past you before you could even say, "beautiful... ".

200km/h D train is OK, check my photos about Wuhan-Chongqing train in this thread . But, for 300km/h G trains, yes, u will miss it if too slow.

 

[AndrewJin]

i‘m back from southwest China, too many things to share, dunno where to start.
@Azizam @powastick @ahojunk @TaiShang et al

 

[TaiShang]

i‘m back from southwest China, too many things to share, dunno where to start.
@Azizam @powastick @ahojunk @TaiShang et al

Wish you enjoyed the trip, bro. Looking forward to seeing the images from the beloved Mainland

 

[anant_s]

i‘m back from southwest China, too many things to share, dunno where to start.
@Azizam @powastick @ahojunk @TaiShang et al

I'm looking forward to some diesel locos from China. Can you please share some pics?

 

[AndrewJin]

I'm looking forward to some diesel locos from China. Can you please share some pics?

I myself don't have any photo about diesel loco, cannot find any in my trips.

 

[AndrewJin]

First-person perspective from the cab
Menyuan County's rape flower fields along Lanzhou-Xinjiang HSR 4000 metre above the sea level
Captured in July from Weibo

 

[anant_s]

First-person perspective from the cab
Menyuan County's rape flower fields along Lanzhou-Xinjiang HSR 4000 metre above the sea level
Captured in July from Weibo
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Interesting to note the ballast less tracks, i guess this is for tracks supporting speeds in excess of 150mph.
Also those mustard fields besides the tracks lend a beautiful background to the picture.

 

[AndrewJin]

Interesting to note the ballast less tracks, i guess this is for tracks supporting speeds in excess of 150mph.
Also those mustard fields besides the tracks lend a beautiful background to the picture.

Actually ballasted tracks can also support 300-350kph, as the case in France. They both have pros and cons. In China, a lot of 250km/h railways use ballasted tracks too.

Menyuan County is only half an hour by HSR from the provincial capital of Qinghai Province on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a good place to view rape flower fields in the background of 5000 meter high Qilian Mountains. This section across Qilian Mountain is the highest high-speed railway so far in the world.

@anant_s enjoy it

 

[anant_s]

Menyuan County is only half an hour by HSR from the provincial capital of Qinghai Province on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, a good place to view rape flower fields in the background of 5000 meter high Qilian Mountains. This section across Qilian Mountain is the highest high-speed railway so far in the world.

I saw a documentary on Qinghai railways and i really marvel construction in perma-frost region. I think that is largely a non electrified territory with twin diesels being used (don't remember the class though).

any idea how much does that cost per km to construct the track u've shown above?

 

[AndrewJin]

I saw a documentary on Qinghai railways and i really marvel construction in perma-frost region. I think that is largely a non electrified territory with twin diesels being used (don't remember the class though).

That is non-electrified section of Xining-Lhasa railway, from Golmud to Lhasa.
I took the train from Xining to Lhasa in 2011.