Chinese Railways

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Dacheng PFL open for CRH service

september 20, the Dacheng PFL opened with CRH service in the Dazhou-Chengdu section,that means the whole line are now come into service as a high speed rail. before that, CRH service opened at the Chengdu-Suining section as part of the Chengdu-Chongqing CRG service was opened in last year

a CRH1A at Dazhou Station





related railways

PFL - Mixed passenger & freight HSR line
UCL - Upgraded convention lines

line           section              length       designed speed
Dacheng ICL    Dazhou-Chengdu        374km          200km/h
Suiyu UCL      Suining-Chongqing     165km          160km/h

CRH Operating infomation

Start-Stop            lenth      fastest Average        trains/day
                                 Operating Speed
Chongqing-Chengdu     315km      160.17km/h                10
Chengdu-Chongqing     315km      160.17km/h                10
Dazhou-Chengdu        374km      159.15km/h                5 
Chengdu-Dazhou        374km      159.15km/h                5

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October 14, 2010.CRH2-010A arrive at Hainan Island, test run on the Hainan East Ring ICL (Haikou - Sanya), total length 302km, designed speed 250km/h,will start test run at October 17

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Chinese MOR 120 km/h HXD/HXN freight locomotives order timetable,

Date         manfacturer  Tech.Cooperator    Power output  Type    Quantity    Amount
2004-10      CNR Dalian     Toshiba           7200 kw      HXD3     60     873 m RMB
2004-12      CSR Zhuzhou    Siemens           7200 kw      HXD1    220   7,340 m RMB
2005-2       CNR Datong     Alstom            9600 kw      HXD2    180   7,500 m RMB
2005-9       CNR Dalian     EMD               6000 HP      HXN3    300   6,642 m RMB
2005-11      CSR Qishuyan   GE                6000 hp      HXN5    300   6,800 m RMB
2006-12      CNR Dalian     Toshiba           7200 kw      HXD3    180   2,620 m RMB
2007-3       CNR Datong     Alstom            9600 kw      HXD2B   500  11,200 m RMB
2007-3       CNR Dalian     Bombardier        9600 kw      HXD3B   500  11,300 m RMB
2007-8       CSR Zhuzhou    Siemens           9600 kw      HXD1B   500  11.200 m RMB
2008-2       CNR Dalian     Toshiba           7200 kw      HXD3    400   5,822 m RMB
2009-6       CSR Zhuzhou                      7200 kw      HXD1C   400   5,800 m RMB
2009-10      CNR Dalian     Toshiba           7200 kw      HXD3    400   5,822 m RMB
2010-7       CNR Datong                       7200 kw      HXD2C   220   3,000 m RMB
2010-7       CNR Dalian                       7200 kw      HXD3C   390   6,000 m RMB
2010-7       CSR Zhuzhou                      7200 kw      HXD1C   590   8,600 m RMB

October 13, 2010, Chinese MOR sign 2,700 million RMB High-speed train contract with CNR Changchun

http://stock.cnstock.com/report/gsyj/201010/914085.htm

I think it should be 16 sets of CRH5A

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Southeast Asia One Step Closer to Linking Singapore and China in Massive Railway Network


http://www.fastcompany.com/1697078/s...ailway-network

Plans for a pan-Asian railroad have been in the works for decades, but today marked the first step toward linking a massive railway line from Singapore to Southwest China and beyond. It's called the Singapore-Kunming Rail Link (SKRL), and will connect domestic lines within several Southeast Asian nations. It spans 3,000 miles, connecting Singapore all the way to the Southwestern city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province.

While a majority of Southeast Asia's countries already have established rail lines that can be linked with relative ease, Cambodia remains the missing link. The Asian Development Bank is putting in $84 million and the Australian government is putting in another $21.5 million to close the gap--funds that will focus on repairing and re-constructing a crucial segment of the line, which falls in rural regions of Cambodia.

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UIC Highspeed 2010 - China Railways

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Booming China shows off its 220 mph train


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39858206...s-asiapacific/

China rolled out its fastest train yet on Tuesday and announced that the Three Gorges Dam, the world's biggest hydroelectric project, is now generating electricity at maximum capacity — engineering triumphs that signal the nation's growing ambitions as its economy booms.

The successes demonstrate how, after decades of acquiring technology from the west, Beijing has begun to push the limits of its new capabilities, setting the bar higher on mega-projects as it seeks to promote the image of a powerful, modern China. But many of these initiatives have come at great human and environmental cost, and some have questioned whether the country fosters a sufficiently innovative spirit to compete on the next level.

Still in the works: more nuclear power plants, a gargantuan project to pump river water from the fertile south to the arid north, and a $32.5 billion, 820-mile (1,300-kilometer) Beijing-to-Shanghai high-speed railway that is scheduled to open in 2012.

"We are now much faster," Railway Ministry spokesman Wang Yongping said at Tuesday's inauguration of the super-fast line from Shanghai's western suburb of Hongqiao to the resort city of Hangzhou. "Now other countries are hoping to cooperate with us."

The train will cruise at a top speed of about 220 mph (350 kph), making the 125-mile (200-kilometer) trip in 45 minutes.

China's fastest train, which started operation Tuesday, links Shanghai with Hangzhou.

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CRH380BL picture, thanks to ourial poster yzbest007

[Coquitlam S.J.]

I found this 6-minute video from youtube showing a ride from Beijing to Tianjin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmjcxBvucE
My comments:
1 . People still need take Taxi to this giant airport-like train terminal. The high speed train should be integrated tightly with subway, skytrain, light track train etc.. otherwise lost the whole meaning of high speed.
2. There is an outside uncovered area between waiting area and platform entrance. What about raining...?

[twoNeurons]

Originally Posted by Coquitlam S.J.

I found this 6-minute video from youtube showing a ride from Beijing to Tianjin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGmjcxBvucE
My comments:
1 . People still need take Taxi to this giant airport-like train terminal. The high speed train should be integrated tightly with subway, skytrain, light track train etc.. otherwise lost the whole meaning of high speed.
2. There is an outside uncovered area between waiting area and platform entrance. What about raining...?

China's approach is NOT to build them into the cities. They're built on the outskirts so that they can travel at max speed due to longer straighter stretches. They then will build transit to the terminal. Then, they will build density around the terminal.

They're treat like airports.

Unlike airports, however, they can be integrated much more easily into future developments. China builds districts around the new stations.

Think of like the interstate system in Europe. They built ring roads to access the outskirts of the city (like the M-25 around London) because the built form was too difficult and expensive to integrate into.

I'm not saying it's the BEST policy, but in many Chinese large cities, you're simply NOT going to find that much land that quickly in city centres. Expropriation still takes time, even when you have a powerful centralized government like China does.

[Onn]

Yet word is emerging here that China's Ministry of Railways is rethinking its ambitious plans to expand the high-speed-rail system after experts found that it is dreadfully expensive and already deep in debt and cannot be efficiently connected to the rest of the country's transportation infrastructure.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111206538.html

Oh dear, this doesn't sound good...

[urbanfan89]

Originally Posted by Onn

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...111206538.html

Oh dear, this doesn't sound good...

Old news is false. This is officially denied by the Ministry of Railways, which says it's full steam ahead for existing plans. However, plans by local governments to build their own lines will be carefully watched.

http://news.ifeng.com/gundong/detail...064654_0.shtml

I wonder which white collar crook made a killing off the false news:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-1...ail-plans.html

[muppet]

Originally Posted by Coquitlam S.J.

1 . People still need take Taxi to this giant airport-like train terminal. The high speed train should be integrated tightly with subway, skytrain, light track train etc.. otherwise lost the whole meaning of high speed.
2. There is an outside uncovered area between waiting area and platform entrance. What about raining...?

That's Beijing South - just because the guy in the vid arrives by taxi doesnt mean EVERYONE arrives by taxi. Seriously that's a bit thick. All the main stations are fully integrated into the underground system - bus stations too. These are the biggest stations in the world, on the soon-to-be biggest underground network - you'd seriously think they wouldn't integrate them?


bottom of map

www.bestwesternpremierbeijing.cn

[Onn]

Originally Posted by urbanfan89

Old news is false. This is officially denied by the Ministry of Railways, which says it's full steam ahead for existing plans. However, plans by local governments to build their own lines will be carefully watched.

The Chinese government is setting targets just to meet economic growth, who knows what's really going on under the hood. Seriously, you think the Ministry of Railways is transparent? The debt from high-speed rail has to have risen to astronomical levels looking at all these pictures.


Wait what, what is that? Is that cracking I hear? Noo...

[MolsonExport]

^and the sources of your information would be where? flatulence?

Beats blowing it all in a couple of wars.

[urbanfan89]

Originally Posted by Onn

The Chinese government is setting targets just to meet economic growth, who knows what's really going on under the hood. Seriously, you think the Ministry of Railways is transparent? The debt from high-speed rail has to have risen to astronomical levels looking at all these pictures.


Wait what, what is that? Is that cracking I hear? Noo...

Have you actually read the responses? The network is nowhere near complete. Of course existing stations and railways will be barely used, because no "network" exists as yet. Once the major corridors are completed, those massive stations will have plenty of usage. It will be a huge sign of failure of those stations are *now* to capacity.

Sure better to throw money on trains than on wars a continent away.