Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway
The Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway is a proposed China Railway High-speed passage. It will run in an east-west direction largely parallel to the Yangtze River, connecting the cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Chongqing and Chengdu.
| Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway 沪汉蓉高速铁路 | |
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| Overview | |
| Status | Under construction |
| Locale | Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan |
| Termini | Shanghai Chengdu |
| Service | |
| Type | High-speed rail |
| Operator(s) | China Railway High-speed |
| Technical | |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge |
| Electrification | 50 Hz 25,000 V |
| Operating speed | 350 km/h (217 mph) |
| Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railway | |||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 沪汉蓉高速铁路 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 滬漢蓉高速鐵路 | ||||||
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Announced in 2016 as part of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network, the passage will comprise multiple railway lines and branch lines, including those currently operational as well as those under construction and under planning.
Route
The railway's route is roughly parallel to the existing Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu passenger railway, but has a maximum speed of 350 km/h rather than the older line's 250 km/h. The new line would provide a faster connection for the cities of Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Wuhan, Chongqing and Chengdu.[1][2]
In the Shanghai–Nanjing section, there are already two high speed railways (the Shanghai–Nanjing intercity railway and Beijing–Shanghai HSR) connecting them as well as the cities to the south of the Yangtze, namely, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, and Zhenjiang. This time the route will favour those cities to the north of Yangtze river including Qidong, Haimen, Nantong, Rugao, Hai'an, Taizhou, Yangzhou. It is expected that by connecting these cities to Shanghai and Nanjing with high-speed railway, their economy will boom in the near future.
References
- https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=File:中长期铁路网规划_(2016).pdf&page=25
- High-speed rail to halve Chengdu–Shanghai travel time, Chinadaily.com.cn. Retrieved 31 August 2017.