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Full speed ahead for Shanghai express
By Guo Nei (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-06-03 09:22
Another speed-up on the Beijing-Shanghai railway line could be due soon
that will further cut travelling time between the cities.
The Shanghai-based Wenhuibao newspaper reported that because of the
electrification of the line, the highest speed of trains on the
1,464-kilometre railway will reach 200 kilometres per hour in October,
which could cut travelling time to 7 hours.
Currently it takes the fastest train more than 12 hours to run between
the two cities.
Neither the Ministry of Railways nor the Shanghai Railway Bureau would
confirm the report on Friday.
On Thursday, the Shanghai Railway Bureau announced it had completed the
electrification of a nearly 600-kilometre section at a cost of 2.03
billion yuan (US$254 million).
Electrification of a section of the Beijing-Shanghai railway stretching
almost 600 kilometres has been completed. [Xinhua]
Despite five previous speed-ups on the line, the Ministry of Railways
decided to carry out electrification to further improve transportation.
The railway bureaux of Beijing and Jinan in East China's Shandong
Province are electrifying the other sections with completion expected by
July 1, the newspaper reported.
One other facet of the speed-up project not yet finished involves the
upgrading of locomotives and carriages.
Fifteen transformer substations have been built, and the signal system
has been modified at the 83 railway stations along the line.
The railway which also passes through Tianjin Municipality as well as
Hebei, Anhui, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces makes up only 2.2 per cent
of China's total track distance but handles 8.9 per cent of its goods
transport and 12.4 per cent of its passenger traffic.
Experts said trains with electric locomotives are faster, more efficient
and environmentally friendlier than the diesel locomotives currently in
widespread use.
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