High-speed lines in Yangtze Delta undergo testings

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Updated: 2013-03-28 20:00

The Nanjing-Hangzhou and Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway lines had integration testing on Mar 28, with a top speed of 389 km per hour recorded, Xinhua News Agency reported.

The two lines, which span about 398 km in Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, were the first two high-speed railway lines tested after China Railway Corp was established on March 17 to take over the commercial functions of the former Ministry of Railways.

They are the ninth and 10th high-speed railway lines in the Yangtze River Delta region.

The travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou will be shortened to about an hour. Passengers traveling from Nanjing to Hangzhou will not need to travel to Shanghai first, and the trip will cost less. The travel time from Hangzhou to Ningbo will be shortened from two hours to less than 40 minutes.


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Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway Starts Test Run

2013-03-28 17:59:35 Xinhua Web Editor: Mao Yaqing

An attendant stands next to a bullet train when a test run of the Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway ends at Nanjing South Railway Station in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, March 28, 2013. The new Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is a supplement to railway travelling within China's Yangtze River Delta. The 249-kilometer rail line will reduce travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou to about an hour. [Photo: Xinhua]

Workers keep track of a bullet train's operational data during a test run of the Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway on March 28, 2013. The new Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is a supplement to railway travelling within China's Yangtze River Delta. The 249-kilometer rail line will reduce travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou to about an hour. [Photo: Xinhua]

A bullet train is ready for a test run of the Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway from Hangzhou East Railway Station in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 28, 2013. The new Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is a supplement to railway travelling within China's Yangtze River Delta. The 249-kilometer rail line will reduce travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou to about an hour. [Photo: Xinhua]

Media and railway workers take a bullet train during a test run of the Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway on March 28, 2013. The new Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is a supplement to railway travelling within China's Yangtze River Delta. The 249-kilometer rail line will reduce travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou to about an hour. [Photo: Xinhua]

A railway official holds a press briefing during a test run of the Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway on March 28, 2013. The new Nanjing-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway is a supplement to railway travelling within China's Yangtze River Delta. The 249-kilometer rail line will reduce travel time from Nanjing to Hangzhou to about an hour. [Photo: Xinhua]

 

[Fsjal]

Why is the train different. New model?

 

[sms]

^^ just different color. these are modified Japanese (Shinkansen) trains most made by CSR.

We must appreciate the efforts taken by China to grow HSR network. They are true no-1 in this domain.

 

[cirr]

Why is the train different. New model?

The yellow-painted is a testing train which performs integrity test over and through the entire length of an operational line each day before the normal services start。

 

[cirr]

CSR CRH milestones：

 

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Chongqing-Lichuan HSR to complete by the end of 2013：

Wuhan-Chongqing travel time will be cut from 15 hours to 5 hours.

 

[shuttler]

Congratulations!

A snapshot of young and old passengers enjoying the trip on our high speed railway ( Harbin-Dalian line):

Some pix of the Wuhan HSR terminal:

 

[W.11]

looks like a drawing room

 

[shuttler]

Engineers from China Academy of Railway Sciences collect data for the integration test in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 26, 2013. The 150-kilometer Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Ningbo, two hub cities in Zhejiang, commenced its integration test here on Friday. Once put into operation on July 2013 as expected, the high-speed railway that designed at a top speed of 350km/h, would reduce the travel time to 36 minitues, a quarter time of the current two-hour journey. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)

Construction workers and engineers examine rail tracks in the Huzhou Railway Station in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, March. 16, 2012. The 150-kilometer Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Ningbo, two hub cities in Zhejiang, commenced its integration test here on Friday. Once put into operation on July 2013 as expected, the high-speed railway that designed at a top speed of 350km/h, would reduce the travel time to 36 minitues, a quarter time of the current two-hour journey. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)


Nanjing HSR terminal:

Guangzhou South HDR terminal:

 

[cnleio]

Today China's development looks like 70-80s Japan developing, all of us r in the "high-speed line".
My hometown also looks huge different with last five years, here except local ppl everything changes too too fast, a medium-sized city(NanChang city) they starting to dig 1st subway this year and future plan three.

 

[Fsjal]

Engineers from China Academy of Railway Sciences collect data for the integration test in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, Feb. 26, 2013. The 150-kilometer Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Ningbo, two hub cities in Zhejiang, commenced its integration test here on Friday. Once put into operation on July 2013 as expected, the high-speed railway that designed at a top speed of 350km/h, would reduce the travel time to 36 minitues, a quarter time of the current two-hour journey. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)

Construction workers and engineers examine rail tracks in the Huzhou Railway Station in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, March. 16, 2012. The 150-kilometer Hangzhou-Ningbo high-speed railway linking Hangzhou and Ningbo, two hub cities in Zhejiang, commenced its integration test here on Friday. Once put into operation on July 2013 as expected, the high-speed railway that designed at a top speed of 350km/h, would reduce the travel time to 36 minitues, a quarter time of the current two-hour journey. (Xinhua/Tan Jin)


Nanjing HSR terminal:

Guangzhou South HDR terminal:

Love how it looks like an airport.

 

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Shijiazhuang:

 

[cnleio]

Love how it looks like an airport.

In China, most new train stations looks like the airport, or better than airport. Specially a medium-sized or big-sized city usually has more than one train station, a old bad-looking station and another new beautiful train station. Recently each city built some new good-looking stations.

 

[Yogi]

Congrts China
Really development at God Speed...