Nanjing–Qidong railway
| Nanjing–Qidong railway | |
|---|---|
 A train arrives at Yangzhou railway station. | |
| Overview | |
| Other name(s) | Ningqi railway |
| Native name | Nam kinh – khải đông thiết lộ |
| Status | Operating |
| Locale | Jiangsu,People's Republic of China |
| Termini | |
| Service | |
| Type | Higher-speed rail |
| History | |
| Opened | July 2005 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 351 kilometres (218 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm(4 ft8+1⁄2in)standard gauge |
| Operating speed | 200 km/h |
TheNanjing–Qidong railway(simplified Chinese:Nam kinh – khải đông thiết lộ;traditional Chinese:Nam kinh – khải đông thiết lộ;pinyin:Nánjīng–Qǐdōng tiělù), commonly referred to in short as theNingqi railway(simplified Chinese:Ninh khải thiết lộ;traditional Chinese:Ninh khải thiết lộ;pinyin:Níngqǐ tiělù), is ahigher-speed railline inJiangsuProvince, China. Its common name is derived fromNing,the one-character abbreviation for Nanjing andQi,which refers toQidong,a county-level city ofNantong.
Until 2019, the railway only ran as far as east asNantong East railway station.On January 5, 2019, the line was extended to Qidong and it is now 351 kilometres (218 mi) long. It runs along the northern bank of theYangtze River,serving cities such asYangzhou,Taizhou,andHai'an.Passenger service was formerly operated betweenNanjing railway stationandNantong railway stationonly.[1]A frequent service is now operated on the whole route from Nanjing to Qidong.
History[edit]
Planning for a railway along the north bank of the Yangtze River began as early as 1958. In 1977, the government of Jiangsu province designated the railway from Nanjing to Nantong as a project for completion within the next 10 years. Due to funding shortage and disagreement over route, the project was not built for 20 years. The project was revived in the late 1990s with the onset of construction on theXinyi–Changxing railway,which was the first railway to be built in Jiangsu province north of the Yangtze River. In 2001, the Ministry of Railways approved plans for the Ningqi railway, and construction was built in two phases. The Nanjing toHai'ansection was built from March 1, 2002, to December 2003. The Haian toYangzhouandNantongsections were completed by July 2005.
A major upgrade project on the Nanjing–Qidong railway was completed on December 20, 2015. This involved the electrification of the railway line and building a second track. This was expected to halve the travel time from Nantong to Nanjing from the previous 3 hours 50 min to 1 hour 50 min.[2][3]The electrification is designed to permit operation ofdouble-stack container trainsbut no such services are currently being operated.[4]EMU trains entered trial operation on May 6, 2016[5]and started revenue service from May 15, 2016.[6]
Passenger service on an eastern single-track extension toQidong(viaHaimen) began on 5 January 2019.[7]A further freight-only extension north towards Lusigang was also constructed.
Plans were approved in 2012[8]for a cross-river connection from Nantong to theShanghaimetropolitan area (theShanghai–Nantong railway). It connects to the Nanjing–Qidong railway at Zhaodian station (planning name: Pingdong) on the northwestern outskirts of Nantong's urban core. Construction work on the Hutong Yangtze River bridge started on March 1, 2014.[9]The line was expected to open at the end of 2018,[10]but it was opened on July 1, 2020.
References[edit]
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- ^Ninh khải thiết lộ minh niên để cải tạo hoàn công; nam thông chí nam kinh cận nhu lưỡng tiểu thờiArchived2013-11-03 at theWayback Machine(Ning–Qi railway upgrade to be completed by the end of the next year. Nantong to Nanjing in 2 hours.) giang hải minh châu võng, 2013-10-27
- ^Ninh khải thiết lộ phục tuyến minh niên hoàn công nam thông đáo nam kinh 1 tiểu thời 50 phân chungArchived2014-01-10 at theWayback Machine(Double-tracking of the Qi–Ning railway will be completed by the end of the next year. Nantong to Nanjing in 1 hour 50 min), 2013-11-13
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- ^Ninh khải thiết lộ 14 đối động xa tạc thượng tuyến thí bào(in Chinese). Nam kinh nhật báo. May 7, 2016. Archived fromthe originalon May 10, 2016.RetrievedMay 7,2016.
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- ^"Chinese rail projects approved - Railway Gazette".Archivedfrom the original on 2013-12-27.Retrieved2013-12-26.
- ^Hỗ thông thiết lộ 2013 niên chính thức khai kiến nam thông đáo thượng hải cận nhu nhất tiểu thời[Construction work on the Hu-Tong Railway will officially start in 2013. It will take just an hour to travel from Nantong to Shanghai] (in Chinese). December 24, 2012.Archivedfrom the original on May 15, 2013.RetrievedDecember 25,2012.
- ^"Hỗ thông thiết lộ gia định an đình đoạn dự kế 2018 niên để thông xa".Đông phương võng. 2018-02-24.Archivedfrom the original on 2018-03-02.Retrieved2018-06-19.
