China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[AndrewJin]

Central Hunan Province

 

[AndrewJin]

Changsha, capital of Hunan Province

Northern Hunan Province

Yueyang, at the border of Hunan/Hubei Province
(Hunan=south to the lake; Hubei=north to the lake)

 

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2 minutest earlier in Wuhan, my hometown

check-out

arrival floor

zero distance to Metro

paired cross-platform interchange from metro Line 4 to Line2
(cross-platorm interchange at two continuous stations)

Cross-platform interchange - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The end of my 20-day trip in Southwest China.
More details will be shared in Chinas answer to future challenges | Page 2

My observation about this bullet train trip
1, Number of bus lines to downtown is limited, especially direct bus to old stations and airport; metro construction too slow, not in time with the opening of this HSR station.
2, No shops inside still since it has been just opened, but hot water is provided
3, Organisation should be improved. 20 minutes prior to departure, radio already announced check-in, but passengers waited for another 5 minutes in queue. And stuff only called for children to check-in first, forgot about other priority passengers.
4, Signs inside are excellent, but outside station not detailed.
5, Stuff in information centres were friendly but their mandarin
6, When passengers boarded the train, one attendant was not waiting at the door.

For a new railway station, I give them 7/10,
Next time when Guiyang-Kunming HSR, I'll come back.

 

[cirr]

Tongling Yangtze River Bridge with 6-lane motorway upper decker and 4-track railway lower decker

 

[AndrewJin]

Tongling Yangtze River Bridge with 6-lane motorway upper decker and 4-track railway lower decker

Which lines are these four tracks for?

 

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Which lines are these four tracks for?

Beijing-Fuzhou HSR and Hefei-Lujiang-Tongling Railway(dedicated freight corridor，160kph， upgradable later to 200kph)

 

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A visit to Shanghai Hongqiao CRH EMU Depot

The depot lies about 6km north of Shanghai Hongqiao station, occupies an area of over 67 hectares. It has 75 road sidings, can hold 136 8-car EMUs.

The map and sign at the entrance of the depot, 1: road sidings, 2: maintenance sheds, 3: offices, 4: living area

Full view(almost) of the maintenance sheds, two 4 road sheds and one 6 road shed(left)

Inside the 6 road maintenance shed, each road can hold two 8-car EMUs or one 16-car EMU

Two CRH380Bs waiting for inspection and regular maintenance

70 8-car EMUs get through the process each day, it takes a 4 man team about 2.5 hours to do one 8 car EMU

Looking at the sidings from the entrance of the 6 road shed

 

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What's the shed at the very left? The auther didn't mention, my（the OP）guess is it's the wheel lathing shed
Notice there's a train running on elevated Beijing-Shanghai HSR in the background

Full view of the road sidings

A lot CRH380Bs

Beijing-Shanghai HSR and Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity in the background

A dirty CRH380B on it's way to get washed(?)

A few CRH380As and CRH2s hiding among CRH380Bs

 

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A CRH380BL coming out of the wheel lathing shed

Full view of the sidings and the maintenance sheds(from the other side)

Finally, a bit of information of different levels of maintenance of all the CRH train models

It can be seen the models inherited European technology require less maintenance than the models inherited Japanese technology.

It's one of the reasons both two prototype Chinese Standard high speed trains adopted European standard in term of traction system, bogie and running gear.

CHINA | High Speed Rail - Page 490 - SkyscraperCity

 

[AndrewJin]

What's the shed at the very left? The auther didn't mention, my（the OP）guess is it's the wheel lathing shed
Notice there's a train running on elevated Beijing-Shanghai HSR in the background

Full view of the road sidings

A lot CRH380Bs

Beijing-Shanghai HSR and Shanghai-Nanjing Intercity in the background

A dirty CRH380B on it's way to get washed(?)

A few CRH380As and CRH2s hiding among CRH380Bs

They need a better photographer.

Wuhan CRH Depot

 

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[AndrewJin]

Railway fans visited Northwestern China's biggest locomotive repair plant in Baoji

 

[TaiShang]

Railway fans visited Northwestern China's biggest locomotive repair plant in Baoji

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Looks very neat.

 

[AndrewJin]

Looks very neat.

Hope Wuhan Railway Bureau or Wuhan CRH Depot organise such activity for railway fans.

 

[TaiShang]

China CRC to Invite Bids for Supply of over 1,100 Trains
(Xinhua) 05:24, August 07, 2015

China Railway Corporation (CRC) plans to invite bids for an additional supply of 1,143 trains, following the last deal of 351 bullet trains in July, said a company source on Tuesday.

The new package includes 34 units of 25T plateau trains, 129 units of 25G AC380V trains, 276 units of 25G DC600V trains, 16 units of 25T soft seat trains and 688 units of 25T regular trains.