Passengers are pictured in a subway train in Shenzhen city, South China’s Guangdong province, June 26, 2017. SHENZHEN – China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen on Monday piloted the use of the 5G wireless network to transmit a huge volume of data from the subway train to the station. The test on the Line 11 saw a…
DetailsPassengers walk to take trains at Nanjing Railway Station in east China’s Jiangsu Province, April 30, 2019. Railway stations witness a travel rush as the May Day holiday is on hand. China’s railway passenger and cargo transport steadily expanded in April, according the China Railway Corporation (CRC). The number of passenger trips reached 295 million,…
DetailsThe track of the Nanyang section of Zhengzhou-Wanzhou High-speed Railway measures 148.7 kilometers. The track of the Nanyang section of a high-speed railway running from Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, to Wanzhou in Southwest China’s Chongqing has been completely laid out. The section, which measures 148.7 kilometers, will be the first high-speed railway that…
DetailsLONDON – The arrival of a fleet of state-of-the-art trains on Britain’s East Coast Main Line has marked the start of the latest phase of the a modernization of Britain’s rail system, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said Wednesday. A total of 4,500 new carriages are being rolled out across the country by 2022, with greener…
DetailsPassengers in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, are experiencing quick and easy entrance to subway stations. Instead of using tickets or swiping their smartphones, they can just smile at a screen to unlock the electric gates, the People’s Daily reported Thursday. The mobile app “Jinan Metro” is responsible for collecting users’ images. The…
DetailsA new intercity railway between Shenzhen and Zhuhai is proposed in a 2016-2030 master development plan that was recently approved by China Railway Corp and the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government. Shenzhen’s endeavor to build the Xili and Shenzhen Airport high-speed railway stations highlights the plan. The Shenzhen-Zhuhai Intercity Railway will start from Xili Railway Station…
DetailsA view of a Fuxing bullet train in Shanghai. China’s high-speed railway had transported more than 10 billion passengers by the end of the first quarter of 2019, a new world record, China Railway said on Saturday. By the end of March, the total volume was “3.34 trillion passenger-kilometers,” China Railway said in a statement…
DetailsRob Jones spoke as Neath Port Talbot’s cabinet backed a joint venture to set up a Global Centre of Rail Excellence. Currently manufacturers have to send trains across Europe for testing before they come back to the UK for service. The Nant Helen opencast mine near Ystradgynlais is the preferred site for the scheme, which Powys council…
Details（China’s high-speed rail network carries 4 million passengers every day, connecting some of the country’s top draws） China has built the world’s longest high-speed rail network and is continuing to expand it rapidly. With a total length of 29,000 km by the end of 2018, high-speed rail now covers 30 of the country’s 34 provincial-level…
DetailsBUDAPEST, May 7 (Xinhua) — Planning has started for a new high-speed railway system linking the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) together, according to local media on Tuesday. “In two years, the feasibility study on the high-speed railway linking Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw will be completed,” Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported here,…
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