🇨🇳🚄 Inside China’s record-breaking high-speed underwater railway
📍 The massive railway project, stretching 2,000 km from Chengdu, is aimed at uniting China’s eastern and western hubs, the South China Morning Post reports.
🔶 Its main feature is a 14 km-long tunnel linking Shanghai’s Chongming Island with Taicang city, Jiangsu province, the outlet explains.
🔶 The tunnel goes under a segment of the Yangtze River, through which trains will be able to pass at the speed of 350 km/h, the outlet explains, adding the tunnel is the longest of its kind in China.
🔶 This will allow the trains to avoid shipping lanes in Shanghai and maintaining a constant high speed, says David Feng, an independent Chinese railway specialist.
💬 "Given how important these conurbations are, there’s every need for a wholly new, separate 350 km/h route,” he said. “Part of this line at the far western end has in fact been primed for future 400 km/h operations."
👉 According to plans, by 2030 China’s railway operator is set to run a network spanning 180,000 km, with one-third being high-speed lines, the SCMP notes.
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🇨🇳🚄 Inside China’s record-breaking high-speed underwater railway
📍 The massive railway project, stretching 2,000 km from Chengdu, is aimed at uniting China’s eastern and western hubs, the South China Morning Post reports.
🔶 Its main feature is a 14 km-long tunnel linking Shanghai’s Chongming Island with Taicang city, Jiangsu province, the outlet explains.
🔶 The tunnel goes under a segment of the Yangtze River, through which trains will be able to pass at the speed of 350 km/h, the outlet explains, adding the tunnel is the longest of its kind in China.
🔶 This will allow the trains to avoid shipping lanes in Shanghai and maintaining a constant high speed, says David Feng, an independent Chinese railway specialist.
💬 "Given how important these conurbations are, there’s every need for a wholly new, separate 350 km/h route,” he said. “Part of this line at the far western end has in fact been primed for future 400 km/h operations."
👉 According to plans, by 2030 China’s railway operator is set to run a network spanning 180,000 km, with one-third being high-speed lines, the SCMP notes.
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