Yunnan to launch two HSR lines this year

Yunnan province is expecting to launch the Kunming-Shanghai HSR line and the Kunming-Nanning HSR line in late 2016. By then, HSR rides from Kunming, capital of Yunnan to Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Shanghai Municipality will take five hours and ten hours, respectively.

On January 6, the Kunming Railway Bureau disclosed that the Yunnan section of the Shanghai-Kunming HSR line will include four stations: Kunming HSR South Station, Songming Station, Qujing North Station and Fuyuan North Station. This means that with Shanghai-Kunming HSR line going into operation by the end of this year, the HSR line will also link up Kunming, Songming, Qujing and Fuyuan.

On December 25, 2015, the Yunnan section of the Shanghai-Kunming HSR passenger line entered the track-laying stage, which will be completed in the first half of this year. Next integrated commissioning and testing will be conducted before this section goes into operation in late 2016. This section is 184.7 kilometres in length, and its design speed is 250- 350 kilometres per hour. Upon going into operation, it will shorten the duration of a Kunming-Shanghai railway trip from more than 40 hours to about ten hours, thus becoming a large-capacity passenger channel connecting Southwest China with Central and East China.

Kunming HSR South Station is currently under construction and will be put into use in the second half of this year. The station is designed with a yearly throughput of 46.93 million passengers (or a daily throughput of 128,000 passengers) and a peak throughput of 12,000 passengers. It will make the largest railway station in Southwest China.

 

Yunnan to launch two HSR lines this year

Yunnan province is expecting to launch the Kunming-Shanghai HSR line and the Kunming-Nanning HSR line in late 2016. By then, HSR rides from Kunming, capital of Yunnan to Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Shanghai Municipality will take five hours and ten hours, respectively. On January 6, the Kunming Railway Bureau disclosed that the Yunnan section of the Shanghai-Kunming HSR line will include four stations: Kunming HSR South Station, Songming Station, Qujing North Station and Fuyuan North Station. This means that with Shanghai-Kunming HSR line going into operation by the end of this year, the HSR line will also link up Kunming, Songming, Qujing and Fuyuan. On December 25, 2015, the Yunnan section of the Shanghai-Kunming HSR passenger line entered the track-laying stage, which will be completed in the first half of this year. Next integrated commissioning and testing will be conducted before this section goes into operation in late 2016. This section is 184.7 kilometres in length, and its design speed is 250- 350 kilometres per hour. Upon going into operation, it will shorten the duration of a Kunming-Shanghai railway trip from more than 40 hours to about ten hours, thus becoming a large-capacity passenger channel connecting Southwest China with Central and East China. Kunming HSR South Station is currently under construction and will be put into use in the second half of this year. The station is designed with a yearly throughput of 46.93 million passengers (or a daily throughput of 128,000 passengers) and a peak throughput of 12,000 passengers. It will make the largest railway station in Southwest China.