Posted: 10/03/2008 11:40 am Post subject: รถไฟความเร็วสูง กรุงปักกิ่ง - นครเทียนสินจะให้บริการ สิงหา51
Official: China-made bullet train to link Beijing, Tianjin in August
Today In Asia : Last Update : 06:43:36 10 March 2008 (GMT+7:00)
BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- The first China-made bullet train designed to run at 300 kilometers per hour has completed a test run and will be in service between Beijing and Tianjin in early August, a railway official said on Sunday.
"A train prototype rolled off the production line in December and has completed a test run," said Shao Liping, director of the railway authority in Nanning, capital of the southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The new train is expected to be running along a 117-km intercity railway beginning Aug. 1, a week before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
It will reduce the travel time between Beijing and Tianjin to around 30 minutes from the current 70 to 80 minutes, said Shao on the sidelines of the annual session of China's parliament.
Shao said the train, the latest model in the China Railway High-speed (CRH) Series, will be produced jointly by manufacturers in Qingdao of the eastern Shandong Province, and Tangshan of the northern Hebei Province.
In the meantime, Shao said Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Railways are carrying out research on a 350-km-per-hour train for the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway that has been under discussion for years.
At present, China's fastest self-developed trains run at a service speed up to 250 km per hour. Those trains, which debuted last April, link Beijing with Harbin, Shanghai and Guangzhou. (Xinhua)
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jpatokal wrote:
No, this article is just cluelessly buying PRC spin. The "real" indigenous Chinese HSR, the China Star, is definitely as dead as a dodo. As this article makes clear, this supposedly "wholly indigenous" train is actually the CRH2-300, which is just a rebranded Japanese Shinkansen E2-1000. The maximum speed does appear to have been increased from 250 km/h to 300 km/h... although the original Japanese E2-1000 is rated at 275 km/h in production and has done 362 km/h in testing.
Vietnam News Agency 11/04/2008 -- 5:12 PM
Beijing (VNA) China unveiled on April 11 its first domestically produced train capable of reaching 350km per hour.
The train was built in the northern city of Tangshan by the China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry Corp, according to Chinas Xinhua news agency.
As the latest model in the China Railway High-speed series, the trains streamlined body is made of light aluminium alloy and can seat 557 passengers.
The train will shorten the journey time on the 120km Beijing-Tianjin route from the current 80 minutes to half an hour, according to Xinhua.
The train is the first of three to begin service on the route before the Olympics begin in August. An additional 54 trains are expected to be in commercial operation by the end of 2009.
China announced their plan to build the bullet trains in December 2007, becoming the fourth country - after France, Germany and Japan - capable of making such high speed trains, said the Ministry of Railways. Enditem
Insurers to invest US$ 2.35 bln in express railway
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-21 18:44
BEIJING - Four of China's insurance companies have been given green light by the country's insurance regulator to invest 16 billion yuan (2.35 billion USD) in the Beijing-Shanghai express railway.
Sources from the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) said that four asset management companies under the Ping'an Insurance, Pacific Insurance, Taikang Life and Taiping Life will jointly set up a Beijing-Shanghai express railway equity investment project to raise the planned amount of capital.
In addition to the four insurers, the China Reinsurance (Group) Company, Generali China Life Insurance Company and PICC will also act as partakers and beneficiaries of the project, with the China Construction Bank as the trustee and the China Development Bank as an independent supervisor.
The CIRC demanded all parties involved in the project to strictly abide by related laws and regulations and prevent credit, operation, moral and legal risks. It also requested the project to submit timely report on its operation or events of significance.
On December 27, 2007, the Beijing-Shanghai Express Railway Co. Ltd was unveiled in Beijing for the construction of the 1,318-km high-speed railway between China's top two cities.
Posted: 03/07/2008 9:19 am Post subject: รถไฟความเร็วสูง ปักกิ่ง - เทียนสิน เริ่ม 1 สค. นี้
Bullet trains to shuttle between Beijing and Tianjin
Xinhua - 2 July 2008
BEIJING, July 2 -- China's first inter-city express railway will undergo a one-month trial from July 1 on the route line Beijing and Tianjin, the Ministry of Railway said in Beijing on Monday.
The Beijing-Tianjin express railway is the country's first self-developed express railway, with a designed speed exceeding 300 kilometers per hour. The 115 km journey would only take 27 minutes.
The trial, to be run without passengers, would include spot repairs, train management system control, cleaning and catering services.
From July 1 to 10, three pairs of trains will run the route to collect data such as departure and arrival times, said a ministry statement.
In the next 10 days, four pairs of trains will run continuously at five-minute intervals while simulating emergency situations, such as power failures, communication signal blackouts, equipment errors and bad weather.
The last 10 days, four pairs of trains would run the route at five minutes intervals to ensure coordination of all departments.
The express service is scheduled to begin on August 1.
Posted: 18/07/2008 10:25 pm Post subject: เปิดรถไฟใต้ดินปักกิ่งเพิ่มอีก 3 สาย
Three more metro rail lines open at weekend in Beijing
By Cui Xiaohuo
China Daily Updated: 2008-07-18 07:35
The new subway Line 10, with air-conditioned and spacious compartments, will open this weekend.
[Photo: China daily - A commuter walks past a Beijing Subway Map at a subway station in Beijing July 17, 2008.]
A 4.3-km length of the Olympic line and a shuttle train between Dongzhimen and the airport terminals will also open for test runs at the same time. They will extend Beijing's underground railway to 200 km.
"The new lines will directly serve the huge crowds during the Olympics," Zhou Zhengyu, spokesman for the Beijing municipal committee of communications, said Thursday.
Beijing is expecting 21 million commuters each day during the Aug 8-24 Games' period, and up to 5.85 million passengers will use the city's subway during that period, more than one quarter of the total commuters using public transport.
The 15.5 billion yuan ($2.27 billion) Line 10 links Zhongguancun, Beijing's IT hub in the northwest, with the city's central business district in the east. The journey time is 45 minutes.
However, the Olympic subway line, part of the planned Line 8, will not be open to passengers without tickets or accreditation.
Special zones will be set up at each subway station to separate Games ticket holders and accredited personnel, who will enjoy free public transport.
The airport express will operate from 6 am till the last flight arrives at the newly built Terminal 3. The trip from Dongzhimen to the airport will take 20 minutes, with 15-minute intervals.
Six more subway lines are being built, and the next one to open next year is Line 4, which will cross the populated west part of Beijing.
Construction of new lines is on schedule despite the delayed opening of Line 10, which had been scheduled to open early last month, Liu Hongtao, deputy director of the local railway transportation construction corporation, said.
By 2015, Beijing's subway network will stretch more than 561 km and have 420 stations. The cost of developing each kilometer of subway is 500 million yuan.
The municipal government has an annual budget of about 1 billion yuan for public transport.
High-speed railway ready to roll
China Daily 24 July 2008 13:34
China is set to enter the high-speed railway club, with its first 350kmh-passenger train traveling between Beijing and Tianjin scheduled for launch on August 1st.
The new service is expected to cut travel time for the 120-km route by half, making the ride less than 30 minutes.
"From now on, China will possess one of the world's fastest high-speed rail services," said Zhang Shuguang, deputy chief engineer of the Ministry of Railways.
In comparison, high-speed trains in Spain and Japan run at 320kmh, while those in France, Germany and Italy travel at 300kmh, Zhang said.
And for the passengers who were invited to experience the service during a trial, riding the trains was "just as comfortable" as being on slower ones.
Sitting in one of the swivel seats on board a sleek carriage of the new service, Beijinger Zhang Tao said she did not feel dizzy or uncomfortable.
The pleasant interior of the carriage, similar to a passenger aircraft's, helped.
"I didn't even notice that the train was already going that fast, until somebody announced the speed of 350 kmh about 10 minutes after the train left the railway station," she said."If there was any detectable difference, it would be that the cars running on the freeways beside the railway looked even slower."
With traveling time between the two cities shortened by the new rail, many couples who cannot afford apartments in the capital can now consider those in Tianjin.
"Young people may think about working in Beijing and living in Tianjin, because commuting between the capital and Tianjin will soon be as easy as taking the bus," said Zhang Shuguang.
As for the ticket price of the new service, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) yesterday said the rail company will decide on one for the year-long trial, after which the final price will be announced following legal procedures.
Zhang said a first-class ticket for the trip will be about 70 yuan ($10) and a second-class one, 60 yuan.
The NDRC also said that other rail services between Beijing and Tianjin should not be reduced, to keep up with various demands of commuters.
For the Chinese engineers behind the new rail, rolling out the transport marvel goes beyond the basic requirements of speed, comfort and convenience.
"To provide the high-speed rail service, we have had to conquer at least three obstacles," the ministry's Zhang Shuguang said.
The trains' operation control system is one of the core technologies that needs mastering, he said.
Its difficulty lies in getting the trains to keep a safe distance between one another and preventing them from colliding with each other or slower trains -- a challenge that may not seem like a big one for slower rail, he said.
"Trains running at 350kmh can equal the speed of airplanes taking off, or at 100m per second," Zhang said.
Only four countries have mastered such technology, he said.
Such expertise has made it possible for the 350-kmh trains to leave the railway station every five minutes during peak hours, and every 10 minutes during non-peak hours, Zhang said.
The second core technology is in synthesizing up to seven rail coordination systems, each with up to 70,000 parts, and making them work as one to maintain track performance, he said. It is something China has also acquired on its own after years of research and experience, he said.
The third core technology of high-speed railways involves the design and manufacture of high-speed trains themselves.
"When a train runs at 350kmh, it will produce an environment of 'negative air pressure.' Designing the high-speed train's air-conditioning system becomes a difficult task, because the train can draw objects into the carriage through any opening, like a big vacuum," he said.
The authorities chose to cooperate with foreign companies that had the necessary expertise, like Germany-based Siemens, to meet such challenges. Under a joint project between the Tangshan Railway Transportation Equipment Company and Siemens, Chinese engineers completed the requisite designs and submitted it to Siemens, who were involved in the industrial certification of the project, Zhang said.
The final product, the CRH-3 (China Railway High-speed) train, is unique to China.
"The entire design is made to suit our needs. As agreed, we own the intellectual property rights of this type of high-speed train," the ministry's Zhang Shuguang said.
Except for three trains manufactured in Germany, the other 57 trains were all produced locally, in Tangshan. Each costs 200 million yuan, Zhang said.
The trains on the Beijing-Tianjin line are also upgrades carried out by Chinese engineers based on the 200-250kmh bullet trains, under a cooperation program between China and Japan.
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