China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

[AndrewJin]

High-speed railway to link Chinese border city to Vladivostok

(Xinhua)Updated: 2015-02-09 19:08

CHANGCHUN -- Plans for a high-speed rail link between Hunchun in Jilin Province and Vladivostok in Russia are taking shape, local authorities said on Monday.

According to Jiang Chaoliang, governor of Jilin Province, the new railway will boost trade between Jilin and Russia, and cooperation between the province and northwest Asia.

Hunchun, on the border with Russia, is only about 180 kilometers from Vladivostok, but it takes more than five hours to travel one-way by car. More than 1,000 Russians pass through Hunchun every day

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2...t_19534103.htm

The tiny border town of Hunchun：

Hunchun, border between China and Russia/NK.
We are just so closed to the sea, history is still affecting China.

 

[AndrewJin]

New photos about CRH380D in Shanghai CRH Depot

 

[AndrewJin]

100 Days of Qinghai HSR
Road & railway transportation “feel their own coldness and warmness”
青海高铁运营百日 公路铁路运输“冷暖自知”
时间:2015-04-03

高原春日和煦的阳光中，青海首条高铁即将迎来运营百日，2日，当“动姐”王茜忙碌在D9981次列车为乘客端茶倒水之时，西宁站外长途客运站里，往返西宁至兰州区间的客车司机马景博已静候他今早第一位顾客多时。
Soothed by the warm spring sunlight on the Qinghai Plateau, Qinghai’s first HSR line welcomes the one hundredth operational day. Whilst “CRH stewardess” Wang Qian was busy serving passengers tea in train D9981, Lanzhou-born coach driver Ma Jingbo had been waiting for his first passenger for hours in the long-distance bus terminal outside Xining Railway Station.

9时，记者来到投用百日不久的西宁火车站，诸多乘坐当日D9981次列车前往门源的乘客已早早排起长队。青藏铁路公司统计数据显示，青海高铁自2014年12月26日开通运营以来，共加开339列动车组列车，累计发送旅客达52.56万人次。

西宁籍市民马文庆眼里，与远在达坂山另一头亲人的之间的“距离”不再是单程耗时2个小时以上，时常大雪封山时“惊”出一身冷汗的“囧途”，他说，“自从我们青海有了高铁，现在已经来来回回坐了30多趟，坐动车省钱、省时、安全，下一步还要学会网络购票”。
For Xining citizen Mr. Ma Wenqing, the distance to his relatives from the other side of Mount Daban is no longer that more than two-hour “囧” journey, which was constantly blocked by heavy snow on the mountain pass. He said, he had taken HSR more than 30 times ever since HSR started operation in Qinghai. “It is more time-saving, cheaper and safer than buses. Next, I’d like to learn how to purchase tickets online.”
（from at least 3.5 hours to 40 minutes, from 40 yuan by bus to 30 yuan by HSR)

“门源从一个没有铁路的小县城跨入了高铁时代，原先作为’命脉’的公路客运大打折扣，仅就门源至西宁的班次已由先前11趟缩减到2趟”，青海省门源县交通局局长冯立权说。
"Menyuan County steps into the HSR era from a small county without railway. The number of buses from Menyuan County to the provincial capital Xining City decrease from 11 to only 2 services per day", said Feng Liquan, director of the Transportation Bureau of Menyuan County.

“现在低迷的长途客运状况让我们这些司机没有了信心，以后只能更换客运线路或转型从事旅游大巴生意”，兰州籍长途客运司机马景博说。
“We bus drivers have lost our confidence facing this situation, and we will have to change lines or drive tourist buses in the future”, said coach driver Ma Jingbo.

青海省西宁汽车站生产经营科工作人员卢艳君介绍，受青海高铁客运分流影响，由西宁市发往兰州、张掖、酒泉、门源四个方向的公路客运班次客源平均下降幅度达70%，且上座率非常不理想。
The total passengers volume from Xining City to Lanzhou, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Menyuan has decreased by 70% on average.

P.S. Xining has 31 CRH services per day from/to Lanzhou(1h20min), Urumqi(10h20min), Jiayuguan(3h20min) and cities within Qinghai Province(Menyuan County30-40min).

Xining Railway Station(rebuilt), Xining City, capital of Qinghai Province

The inauguration day

Menyuan Railway Station, Menyuan Hui Autonomous County, Qinghai Province

Lanzhou-Xinjiang HSR in Menyuan County
Menyuan County is famous for rape flower fields at the foot of Qilian Mountains

 

[AndrewJin]

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County
Famous for rape flower fields and Qilian Mountains,now just half an hour from the capital city of Xining by HSR
(6 trains daily, 30-40min, 30/36.5 yuan for 2nd/1st class)

 

[ahojunk]

Menyuan Hui Autonomous County
Famous for rape flower fields and Qilian Mountains,now just half an hour from the capital city of Xining by HSR
(6 trains daily, 30-40min, 30/36.5 yuan for 2nd/1st class)

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Very very gorgeous looking place. I am full of envy.

 

[AndrewJin]

Very very gorgeous looking place. I am full of envy.

I am envious of beaches and cheap seafood in Australia.
Come to China, take HSR flying through rape flower fields towards majestic Qilian Mountains and cut though the mountains to the grassland and Gobi desert in Silk Road!
@ahojunk

 

[cirr]

Cutting through a sea of flowers

 

[AndrewJin]

Cutting through a sea of flowers

This is Great Wall DMU(diesel), from Beijing North - Badaling Great Wall - Yanqing County, frequent services daily(slow, but a decent choice to the Great Wall)

Beijing North (mostly trains to Inner Mongolia and northern part of Hebei Province)

One hour to Badaling Great Wall Station(60km, 1h10min, 6 yuan=$1)
Non-reserved, Beijing metro card compatible (1st/2nd class the same)

A midway stop

Qinglongqiao Station
I think most Chinese have read an article in our Chinese textbook about this station and this one century old railway line(the first line all designed by Chinese) and the technical details.

Zhan Tianyou and his tomb
The father of Chinese railway, the designer of this miraculous railway in one of the most geologically complicated regions in Northern China.
I think it is the most appropriate comfort for him to watch Great Wall DMU everyday.

 

[AndrewJin]

Badaling Station

 

[cirr]

Badaling Station
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6 yuan（less than 1 USD）for a 60km picaresque ride is bloody cheap。

 

[AndrewJin]

6 yuan（less than 1 USD）for a 60km picaresque ride is bloody cheap。

Exactly, but bus No.877 (directly from Deshengmen in Beijing to Badaling Great Wall) is fast too, all expressway, 12 yuan( Metro card 6 yuan), more frequently.
At least a seat, it's quite often too crowed in DMU.

DMU vs Badaling Expressway (part of the G6 Beijing-Tibet expressway)

 

[xuxu1457]

 

[xuxu1457]

 

[AndrewJin]

Stunning!
I've tried this DMU in 2008, very cheap and cosy.

 

[xuxu1457]

Stunning!
I've tried this DMU in 2008, very cheap and cosy.

I love the pics too, I must go to bed now