Watang – Rizhao railway line

Watang-Rizhao
Route length:	1267 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz overhead line  ~
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	continuous
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The Watang – Rizhao railway line , also known as Shanxi South Central Railway , Shanxi – Henan – Shandong Railway or Jinyulu Railway ( Chinese  晋 豫 鲁 鐵路  /  晋 豫 鲁 铁路 , Pinyin jìnyùlŭ tiělù ) is an electrified freight railway in the 2014 PR China . It runs from Watang in Shanxi via Henan to the Rizhao coal port in Shandong Province and is the first railway line in China designed for an axle load of 30 tons . With a length of 1267 kilometers, this is currently the longest heavy haul railway in the world. The western part has a lot of engineering structures, including four tunnels with lengths of over 15 kilometers.

construction

The line was built in 2010-2014 to increase the capacity for coal export. It complements the existing Datong – Qinhuangdao coal railways , which are now designed for a capacity of 450 million tonnes per year, and the Shenmu – Huangha railway line built between 1996 and 2002 for 200 million tonnes per year. The design capacity of the Watang – Rizhao railway line is also 200 million tons per year. Furthermore, up to 15 passenger trains should be able to run per day.

The construction of the line cost 106 billion yuan (around 13 billion euros at today's exchange rate ). The project was implemented as a public-private partnership . The largest donors are China Railway , which provided 34% of the capital, and Shanxi Province , which contributed 20% through Shanxi Energy & Transport Investment . Other investors include the Bank of China with 7.5 billion yuan and, with smaller amounts, the provinces of Henan and Shandong, the Datong coal industry and the state-owned China Huadian power plant  company .

Route description

The route runs through the three provinces of Shanxi, Henan and Shandong, with 579 km in Shanxi, 255 km in Henan and 426 km in Shandong. The entire route is 1267 km long and has 158 tunnels with a total length of 332 km and 425 bridges with a total length of 332 km. This means that 46.8% of the route runs over or through engineering structures, with most of the tunnels in Shanxi Province.

The route begins north of Xing in Shanxi Province, which is at an altitude of about 1000 m. It leads first in a southerly direction approximately parallel to the Yellow River to Pu , then turns to the east and crosses under the Lüliang Mountains with a two-tube 23.4 km long tunnel, the fourth longest railway tunnel in China in 2016. Before Hongtong , the railway line crosses the Fen - River with a 4.7 km long bridge. The route then passes under the Taiyue Mountains  and the Fajiu Mountains with two 16 km long tunnels  before reaching the Changzhi region . The border between Shanxi and Henan is formed by the Taihang Mountains , which are crossed by an 18 km long tunnel. After Tangyin , the route runs without any major inclines through the alluvial plain of the Yellow River , which is crossed at the border between the provinces of Henan and Shandong.

business

The route was officially opened on December 30, 2014. In contrast to the Datong – Qinhuangdao railway, the Watang – Rizhao railway not only transports steam coal , but also coking coal for the steel industry based in Laiwu .

Operation is planned with 10,000 t trains that run at up to 100 km / h and are equipped with electro-pneumatic brakes . They consist of up to 100 type C96 coal wagons, each of which is transported by a double locomotive at the Zugspitze and at the end of the train. Locomotives of the HXD1F and HXD2F series are used.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ China makes breakthrough in heavy haul railway technology , ChinaDaily, January 6, 2015
3. ↑ Maksym Spiryagin, Peter Wolf, Colin Cole, Valentyn Spiryagin, Yan Quan Sun: Design and Simulation of Heavy Haul Locomotives and Trains . CRC Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-315-35277-0 ( google.de [accessed January 1, 2017]).
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5. ^ Eight corridors at the heart of the five-year plan . In: Railway Gazette . September 1, 1998 ( railwaygazette.com [accessed December 28, 2016]).
6. ↑ Dave van der Meulen, Fienie Möller: Railways in Renaissance - Review of Achievements and Reflection on Prospects . In: Krzysztof Zboinski (Ed.): Railway Research - Selected Topics on Development, Safety and Technology . InTech, 2015, chap. 1 , p. 15 , doi : 10.5772 / 61273 .
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8. ↑ 黄 沛: The Railway Passage Project in South Central Shanxi (China). (No longer available online.) In: www.cggc.cc. Archived from the original on January 3, 2017 ; Retrieved January 3, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ ^{a b} Shanxi South Railway Corridor. (No longer available online.) In: Shared Encyclopedia. 2016, archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; Retrieved on January 1, 2017 (English, the information on the Taiyue Mountain Tunnels is obviously incorrect in this source.). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ Relation 6825295 in OpenStreetMap
11. ↑ ^{a b} The World's longest Tunnel Page: Railway tunnels in China. In: www.lotsberg.net. Retrieved January 2, 2017 . 
12. ^ Research and testing of ECP braking system in China . In: Hui Lin (Ed.): IHHA 2015 Conference proceedings . Perth June 2015 ( PDF ).