Chinese Metro Transport News & Updates

[AndrewJin]

I saw a picture in SSC of what the Beijing metro will look like in the future; dang it looks epic!

Anyway this is from wikipedia

I prefer Shanghai metro, Beijing metro due to its history is not very well planned.

Wuhan 2020 plan is not bad, we have much less population compared to Beijing and Shanghai. And we have Yangtze River and Han River, the money for a metro tunnel across the Yangtze can be used to build a metro line in another city.

 

[JSCh]

Medium-low speed maglev railway to be on trial in C China
Source:Xinhua Published: 2015-12-9 7:39:23

Technicians adjust medium-low speed maglev trains in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, Dec. 8, 2015. Starting from Changsha South Station in the west, to Huanghua Airport in the east, this 18.5-kilometer-long medium-low speed maglev railway will be on a trial run before long. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)​

 

[JSCh]

Dec. 9, maglev train on trial run in Changsa, China.

 

[AndrewJin]

Dec. 9, maglev train on trial run in Changsa, China.

Great news, low-speed maglev line is ideal for airport transport.

Extensions to three local Metro lines to open together Saturday
@Shotgunner51 @GS Zhou

The Metro Line 12 Nanjing Road W Station is being readied lately for its opening. The western section of Metro Line 12 will be put into service this month, mainly conveniencing people in Minhang and Xuhui districts who need to travel to city downtown. --Dong Jun (file photo)

EXTENSIONS to Metro Line 11, 12 and 13 will be put into operation this Saturday.

The extensions would bring 27 new stations into operation and have the city's total Metro service mileage reaching 617 kilometers with 366 stations in total, Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Company said Thursday.

Line 12 will have 16 new stations, including nine interchange stations. After the extension, Line 12 will become the Metro service to feature the most interchange stations.

Line 13 will have nine new stations open for service.

Extension to Line 11, which is also known as Disney Line, will have two new stations open this time--Luoshan Road and Xiuyan Road. The station at Shanghai Disney Resort would not open until next year when the resort starts operation.

The city's metro operator reminds commuters to mind gaps between the platform and train carriages in six stations such as at Caobao Road, Hanzhong Road and Jiangning Road. The gaps there are a little wider than other stations, due to design of curve-shaped platforms. Rubber steps have been installed to prevent accidents and more notices will be set up in future, the Metro operator said.

By the end of 2020, another four new lines and new extensions to five current Metro lines would be built and opened, said the Metro authority.

 

[Shotgunner51]

Dec. 9, maglev train on trial run in Changsa, China.

Changsha also doing Maglev? Welcome to the club!

 

[AndrewJin]

Shanghai Metro
Some photos taken last week on Shanghai metro

Network map after 40km-long extensions line open tomorrow
Total mileage surpasses 600km!

Xujiahui Sta.

East Nanjing Road

Quxi Road

Dongchuan road, suburban Shanghai

Hongqiao HSR Station

@Shotgunner51 @GS Zhou @ahojunk

 

[Shotgunner51]

Shanghai Metro
Some photos taken last week on Shanghai metro

Network map after 40km-long extensions line open tomorrow
Total mileage surpasses 600km!
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Xujiahui Sta.
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@Shotgunner51 @GS Zhou @ahojunk

Excellent!

As said before, the experience of Shanghai is useful for mega cities in China, especially Beijing which is a chaos.

• Build the city on metro.
• Ultra-high density along metro lines, 1 km radius from station.
  
• Very low density otherwise.

 

[dy1022]

Shanghai Rocks!

 

[beijingwalker]

Beijing is always the best!

 

[AndrewJin]

Beijing is always the best!

No offense, I love Beijing. But metro wise, I personally think Shanghai is better. Because of historic limit, some lines in Beijing have to use damn small 6B cars (B cars *6) and some transfer stations are ...u know which station I mean.

 

[dy1022]

No offense, I love Beijing. But metro wise, I personally think Shanghai is better. Because of historic limit, some lines in Beijing have to use damn small 6B cars (B cars *6) and some transfer stations are ...u know which station I mean.

苹果园站， god sake!!!

 

[Ryuzaki]

Has Qingdao recent got metro rail?

 

[B+ Dracula]

Amazing ! Heavenly Pictures
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or maybe can also be termed as Heaven on Earth

 

[TaiShang]

Shanghai Metro
Some photos taken last week on Shanghai metro

Network map after 40km-long extensions line open tomorrow
Total mileage surpasses 600km!
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Xujiahui Sta.
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East Nanjing RoadView attachment 280228

Quxi RoadView attachment 280229

Dongchuan road, suburban Shanghai
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Hongqiao HSR Station
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@Shotgunner51 @GS Zhou @ahojunk

So Taibei...

 

[AndrewJin]

Has Qingdao recent got metro rail?

First line open on the day before yesterday, the 23rd city of mainland China.
2015年：northern section of line3
2016年：line3
2017年：line2, line11
2018年：line 13
2020年：line1 line4
2021年：line6, line8, line12

Qingdao metro opens
17 Dec 2015
CHINA: The first metro line in Qingdao opened for trial passenger operation at 11.00 on December 16. Services on Line 3 operate between 06.30 and 21.30 using six six-car trainsets.

The 12 km northern section of Line 3 links Qingdao North railway station with Shungshan in the city centre. There are 10 stations and the end-to-end journey time is 19 min. The underground standard gauge line is electrified at 750 V DC.

Construction started in 2009. The second phase will extend the route south by 13 km to Qingdao railway station, adding 12 stations. The total cost of both sections of Line 3 is 13bn yuan.

When complete, Line 3 will be operated with a fleet of 24 trainsets that will be stabled at a depot at the northern end of the route. The Type B sets supplied by CSR Qingdao Sifang are aluminium-bodied with capacity for 1 898 passengers including 248 seated.

Construction contracts worth 7bn yuan were awarded on November 20 for two further metro lines in Qingdao. China Railways 12th Group Co is to build Line 1 and China Railways 11th Group Co is to build Line 2.

Qingdao subway system to launch in December
The thriving East Chinese city of Qingdao will welcome a new subway system, which is also the first subway in Shandong province, by December 16, when trial operation begins.

Connecting the Qingdao North railway station, the newly launched subway will usher in a new era for the bustling commerce and circulation industry in Licang district, which a majority of the metro line runs through.

At the moment, a fast growing number of businesses are moving into Zhongfang, an underground business street with a total space of 260,000 square meters, where the Licun subway stop is.

Underground spaces will link the busy department stores of Qingdao, where visitors rub shoulders day and night, to subway stops, making shopping more accessible and convenient.

Apart from the M3 line which will open by the end of the year, the M2 line will also pass through Licang in 2017.

As a transit hub for the two lines, the Licang Subway Complex will have a built-in floor space of 120,000 square meters with 4 levels underground. The complex will have a business space of 50,000 square meters. Its ground space will be a park and also a plaza for locals to lounge around and enjoy their leisure time.

Several stores will be open by the end of the year, welcoming subway riders on the M3 and the overall project will be complete by May 2016.

At the crossing of Jingkou road and Junfeng road, a 'tea culture city' is being raised and will become a feature stop for the M3.

With a total investment of 10 million yuan, the Tiandu Tea Culture City will have a floor space of 40,000 square meters. The complex will have a number of boutique stores, supermarkets, a tea museum, a food court, as well as 123 residential houses and 9 business offices.

Weng Xingdeng, an investor of the project, said there are more than 2000 tea merchants from South China doing business in Qingdao. Each year, thousands of tons of tea are transported to Qingdao and sold across North China.

"The Tea Culture City will feature the headquarters of tea businesses in North China and enhance the branding of Qingdao as a hub for tea commerce in the north," he said.

The complex is located 10 minutes' drive from the Qingdao North Railway Station.

The northernmost station of the M3 is the Qingdao North Railway Station, which is the largest transportation hub in Shandong province.

Resembling a gigantic flying seagull, it opened to passengers in January 2014 and handles an estimated 9.25 million passengers per year, a figure that could rise to 18 million by 2020.

The station now handles an average of 50,000 passengers every day and more than 300,000 people come to the station every day, according to official data.

A total of 100 thousand square meters of commercial space is being built on the east and west plazas at the station with a wide array of stores and sufficient parking lots.

A 36-sq-km area around the station is being transformed into Qingdao Traffic Business District, in a bid to revamp the original industrial hub into a service oriented new urban center.

"The train station will be a comprehensive transit hub with huge commercial opportunities integrating resources and values brought by subway, high speed train railway, intercity coach and local buses," said Pei Chunguang, deputy general manager of Qingdao Hicreat, Licang's state owned infrastructure developer.

Qingdao North Railway Station embraces huge commercialopportunities. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)