Datong – Puzhou Railway

Datong-Puzhou

Course of the Datong – Puzhou railway with several important stations

Route length:

864 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Power system :

25 kV 50 Hz ~

Dual track :

Completely

Legend

		Datong
		Huairen
		Daiyue
		Shuozhou
		Ningwu
		Xuangang
		Yuanping
		Xinzhou
		Taiyuan North
		Taiyuan
		Xiuwen
		Taigu
		Qi
		Pingyao
		Huozhou
		Hongdong
		Linfen
		Houma
		Fenglingdu
		on to Xi'an

The Datong – Puzhou Railway , also known as the Tongpu Railway , is a railway line in the Shanxi Province of the People's Republic of China . It was built in the 1930s and is used for both passenger and freight traffic. In 2012 it was the railway line with the highest freight traffic in China.

Course and traffic volume

The railway line begins in Datong in the north of Shanxi Province. Shanxi is the Chinese province with the largest deposits of coal, most of which is transported by rail. Shanxi is home to 15 of the 20 largest freight stations in China. Datong has the second largest freight yard in China and is the starting point of the Datong-Qinhuangdao railway line to the east . The section from Datong to the capital of Shanxi, Taiyuan, is particularly frequented by freight trains . In the north of Taiyuan there are numerous industrial plants that are connected to the Datong-Puzhou railway line via rail connections . Around 90 million tons of coal are loaded annually in Taiyuan , which makes Taiyuan the largest rail freight hub in China . The southern part of the route leads from Taiyuan via Jiexiu , Linfen and Yuncheng to Puzhou, a district of Fenglingdu on the southern border of Shanxi. In Puzhou there is a connection to the railway line to Xi'an .

Fenglingdu Tunnel portal,
border between Taiyuan and Xi'an Railway Offices

Six-axle HXD3 class freight locomotives in Taiyuan

SS4 double locomotive used for coal trains

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes: Chinese Railways in the Era of High-Speed. Emerald Group, Bingley 2015, ISBN 978-1-78441-985-1 , pp. 12-17.

Web links

Commons : Datong – Puzhou Railway - Collection of images, videos and audio files

OpenStreetMap relation Datong – Puzhou Railway

[emerald-1] A ^b Zhenhua Chen, Kingsley E. Haynes: Chinese Railways in the Era of High-Speed. Emerald Group, Bingley 2015, ISBN 978-1-78441-985-1 , pp. 12-17.