LHASA: The Fuxing, China’s most advanced bullet train series, began operations on the Xining-Golmud section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway line on Saturday, reducing travel time between the two areas to about five and a half hours, according to China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group.
With a total operating length of 829 kilometers, the route runs between Qinghai’s provincial capital Xining and Golmud, passing through stations of Huangyuan, Haiyan, Ulan and Delingha, the company said.
According to company data, the speed of passenger trains has risen from between 120 and 140 kilometers per hour to 160 km/h. The fastest travel time between Xining and Delingha will be less than three and a half hours, providing convenience for residents along the line.
The Qinghai-Tibet Railway line runs between Xining and Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region. The railway company started renovating the Xining-Golmud section in July last year to improve its quality, with more than 3,000 workers involved in the construction.
Zhao Jiaxing, deputy director of the planning and statistics department of the company, said before the renovation of the Xining-Golmud section, the section could only support trains running at a maximum speed of 140 km/h. “The transportation capacity and efficiency have been hampered by geological and technical disadvantages along the line, including bed frost and sand damage,” he said. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
