Harbin – Mudanjiang Railway
The railway line Harbin-Mudanjiang is a high-speed line between the Chinese provincial capital Harbin and the city of Mudanjiang , both in the province of Heilongjiang .
history
Construction work began on December 15, 2014. The route was inaugurated on December 25, 2018.
Technical parameters
The electrified route is almost 300 km long and designed for a top speed of 250 km / h . The distance between the track axes is 4.6 m. The minimum curve radius is 3500 m, the maximum gradient is 30 ‰. The route includes 109 bridges and a raised route with a total length of 103 km, 39 tunnels with a total length of 69 km and nine train stations . The cost of construction was around 40 billion renminbi (5.3 billion euros ).
traffic
The fastest connections on the new line between the two cities take just under an hour and a half to drive. That is a third of the travel time that trains need on the existing route that has been used so far. From Mudanjiang there is a connection to the Suifenhe border station with a transition to the Russian railway via a well-developed existing line .
literature
- bac: China is putting numerous new lines into operation . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2019, p. 186f.