How many railways will welcome the first Spring Festival travel rush exam, which pass through your hometown？
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Leng Haoyang) Today, the 40-day Spring Festival travel rush kicked off. According to China Railway Corporation, in 2017, a new line of 3,038 kilometers was put into operation, and the "four vertical and four horizontal" high-speed rail network was completed and put into operation ahead of schedule. This also means that a number of railways will meet the first Spring Festival travel rush exam. Which new railway lines will help you go home during the Spring Festival this year? Do these railway lines pass through your hometown?
Chongqing-Guizhou Railway: Chengdu-Chongqing Quickly "Hand in Hand" in the Pearl River Delta
Every year, Spring Festival travel rush, Chengdu and Chongqing are the key areas where it is difficult to grab tickets. This year, an important railway line in Spring Festival travel rush will give people in this area a more convenient choice to "go home".
On January 25, 2018, the Chongqing-Guiyang Railway was put into operation, which became a fast railway channel to connect Chengdu-Chongqing area and even southwest area to South China and East China, and then connected with the existing high-speed railway lines such as Guiguang, Chengdu-Chongqing and Shanghai-Kunming. A large-capacity transportation channel will help Spring Festival travel rush.
The Chongqing-Guiyang Railway leads from Chongqing West Railway Station, passes through Qijiang, Zunyi and Xifeng, and finally reaches Guiyang North Railway Station, with a total length of 347 kilometers. It is a double-track electrified railway with passenger and freight lines. Twelve stations, including Chongqing West, Luohuang South, Qijiangdong, Rushui East, Tongzi North, Tongzi East, Loushanguannan, Zunyi, Longkeng, Zunyi South, Xifeng and xiuwen county, have been newly built, with an initial maximum operating speed of 200 kilometers per hour.
At the beginning of the opening of Chongqing-Guiyang Railway, 66 pairs of passenger trains will be arranged, and the running time of Chengdu, Chongqing-Guiyang, Guangzhou, Kunming and Changsha will be greatly shortened.
Xicheng high-speed railway: the history of "difficult roads" has been rewritten.
Joining Spring Festival travel rush’s army for the first time this year is Xicheng High-speed Railway.
"It’s difficult to get through the Shu Road, but it’s difficult to get into the sky", which has always hindered the traffic development between the north and the south of Qinling Mountains. However, with the opening of the Xicheng high-speed railway, the history of "difficult roads" has been rewritten.
On December 6 last year, Xicheng high-speed railway was officially opened for operation. Xicheng high-speed railway leads from Xi ‘an, Shaanxi Province, passes through Ankang and Hanzhong in Shaanxi Province to Guangyuan and Mianyang in Sichuan Province, and connects with Mianyang-Chengdu-Leshan Railway at Jiangyou Station, reaching Chengdu, with a total length of 658 kilometers.
Xicheng high-speed railway operates at a speed of 250 kilometers per hour. The shortest travel time between the two places is reduced to 3 hours and 27 minutes, which is 7 hours shorter than the original shortest travel time between the two places.
The opening of Xicheng high-speed railway will greatly ease the pressure of Spring Festival travel rush between Xi ‘an and Chengdu. On the afternoon of January 31st, the reporter inquired about the train tickets between Xi ‘an and Chengdu on February 14th (the 29th of the twelfth lunar month) and February 21st (the 6th day of the first lunar month) through the 12306 client, and found that many high-speed trains still had tickets left.
Data Map: Last December 28th, with Shijiazhuang — The D1611 train from Qingdao North left Shijiazhuang Railway Station, and the Shijiazhuang-Jinan high-speed railway was opened for operation. The picture shows the first train of D1611. China News Service reporter Yujia Zhai photo
Shiji high-speed railway: Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong provinces realize high-speed railway connection
On December 28th last year, the Shijiazhuang-Jinan high-speed railway was put into operation, and there was no direct high-speed railway between the capital cities of Hebei and Shandong provinces. The last section of China’s "four verticals and four horizontals" high-speed railway network officially closed.
Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province and Jinan, Shandong Province are the two capital cities of Shiji High-speed Railway, with a total length of 298 kilometers. Its east and west ends are connected with Jiqing High-speed Railway and Shitaike Special Railway respectively, which enables Shandong, Hebei and Shanxi provinces to realize high-speed rail connection.
The line also connects with Beijing-Guangzhou high-speed railway at Shijiazhuang Station and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway at Dezhou East Station, with 11 stations in total. In addition to Shijiazhuang and Dezhou East Station, there are 9 new stations in Shijiazhuang East, Gaocheng South, Xinji South, Hengshui North, Jingzhou, Pingyuan East, Yucheng East, Qihe and Jinan East.
At present, there are plenty of tickets for Spring Festival travel rush-Shijiazhuang High-speed Railway. On 31st, the reporter found that there are plenty of tickets for the trips between the two cities from February 12th to 15th before the Spring Festival and from February 20th to 22nd after the Spring Festival.
Data Map: The first G2028 train of Baolan High-speed Railway will run to Xuzhou, Jiangsu, a thoroughfare city of five provinces more than 1,500 kilometers away. Yang yanmin
Baolan High-speed Railway: Take the High-speed Railway to the Silk Road.
What kind of experience is it to take the high-speed train home on the Silk Road?
On July 9, last year, Baolan High-speed Railway was put into operation, with a total length of 401 kilometers, with eight stations including Baoji South, Tianshui South, Qin ‘an, Tongwei, Dingxi Northwest and Lanzhou West, with an operating speed of 250 kilometers per hour. Now, from Lanzhou, you can reach Xi ‘an in 3 hours at the earliest, and it takes only 8 hours and 20 minutes to reach Beijing.
Baolan high-speed railway is connected with Xi ‘an-Baoji high-speed railway and Lanxin high-speed railway, which have been opened to traffic, respectively, from the east and west directions. With the opening of this "last mile", it means that from Xi ‘an, Shaanxi Province, the starting point of the ancient Silk Road, to Urumqi, Xinjiang, a "high-speed railway silk road" with a length of more than 2,300 kilometers runs through the whole line, and the northwest of China is fully integrated into the national high-speed railway network, and the high-speed railways in eastern, central and western China have achieved full interoperability.
Similar to Xicheng High-speed Railway and Shiji High-speed Railway, the opening of Baolan High-speed Railway also eased the pressure on Spring Festival travel rush. On the afternoon of the 31st, the reporter found that on February 13th and 14th of the pre-holiday peak, and on the 20th and 21st of the post-holiday peak, there were sufficient tickets for the high-speed rail between Xi ‘an and Lanzhou, and there were also a small number of tickets left in the business seats and first-class seats of some trains from Beijing to Lanzhou.
Zhanghu High-speed Railway: Inner Mongolia Entering the "High-speed Railway Era"
People in Inner Mongolia can also take the high-speed train home in Spring Festival travel rush this year!
The first new high-speed railway in Inner Mongolia, Zhanghu high-speed railway from Wulanchabu to the eastern section of Hohhot, was officially opened for operation on August 3 last year. After the opening, the running time from Hohhot to Wulanchabu was shortened to 40 minutes.
Zhanghu High-speed Railway (Wulanchabu to the east section of Hohhot) starts from Hohhot East Station, passes through its Yingnan Station and Zhuozi East Station, and finally reaches Wulanchabu Station, with a total length of 126 kilometers and an operating speed of 250 kilometers per hour.
In the future, Zhanghu high-speed railway will also be connected with the Beijing-Zhangjia high-speed railway under construction, forming a fast passenger passage from Beijing to Hohhot within 3 hours.
Data Map: On September 29th last year, the first train K4518 from Lanzhou to Chongqing set off, marking the opening and operation of the whole line of lanzhou-chongqing railway, which took nine years to build. Yang yanmin
Lanzhou-chongqing railway: The northwest and southwest are more closely linked.
In addition to the above-mentioned Chongqing-Guizhou Railway and Xicheng High-speed Railway, there is also a railway connecting the southwest that will help Spring Festival travel rush and facilitate people in the southwest to travel.
This is the grand railway passage connecting the southwest and northwest of China — — Lanzhou-chongqing railway.
Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway passes through Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Chongqing provinces, one city and 22 cities and counties. It is a national I-class railway with double-track electrification of passenger and cargo. The main line is 886 kilometers long, with a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour, and 200 kilometers per hour is reserved for conditional sections.
Nowadays, the transportation distance from Lanzhou to Chongqing has been shortened from 1,453 kilometers to 886 kilometers, and the bus running time has been shortened from 21 hours to the current 12 hours, which greatly facilitates the travel of passengers between the southwest and northwest regions.
Jiujing-Qu Railway: Ending the History of Many Places Closed to Traffic
During this year’s stay in Spring Festival travel rush, people in Poyang, Duchang, Jingdezhen and other places will have a more convenient way to go home.
Jiujingqu Railway was opened to traffic on December 28th last year. It is a double-track electrified express railway with a design speed of 200 kilometers per hour. It starts from jiujiang railway station, Jiangxi Province and ends at Quzhou Station, Zhejiang Province, with a total length of 333.3 kilometers.
Jiujingqu Railway constitutes the auxiliary connecting line of Beijing-Kowloon and Shanghai-Kunming, which connects with Hefu high-speed railway at Wuyuan Station, plays an important role in connecting east and west and connecting north and south in the road network node, and is another convenient passage for Central China and Southwest China to closely connect with the Yangtze River Delta and the southeast coast.
With the official operation of Jiujingqu Railway, there are no trains in Poyang and Duchang, and it has become history that Jingdezhen has no trains. (End)