A prototype high-speed maglev train with a top speed of 600 kilometers (km) per hour rolled off the assembly line in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province on Thursday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The step marked a major breakthrough in the field of high-speed maglev technology, the one-paragraph Xinhua report said. The maglev train is…
DetailsChina rolled off the production line a prototype magnetic-levitation train with a designed maximum speed of 600 kilometers per hour in Qingdao on Thursday, filling the gap in travel speed between aviation and high-speed rail passenger transport in the country, according to its manufacturer. Launched in July 2016, the train is designed and manufactured in…
DetailsFuxing bullet trains undergo final checks at CRRC Tangshan Co Ltd plant in Hebei. [Photo/Xinhua] China’s national railway operator has on Wednesday added a new function to help people buy tickets on the booking site 12306.cn and its related app, the Beijing News reported. When the desired train tickets are not available at the ticket…
DetailsLosong Tsering sits at the control panel of a high-speed train. As the only ethnic Tibetan high-speed train driver in China, 40-year-old Losong Tsering was elated when he sat in the driver’s cabin on the Lanzhou-Xining section of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang high-speed railway for the first time in 2017. He was born in a mountainous village…
DetailsPassengers 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…
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