Guangzhou – Shenzhen – Hong Kong high-speed line

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Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link
Route of the high-speed line Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong
Route length: 142 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 50 Hz, 25 kV  ~
Top speed: 350 km / h
Legend
End station - start of the route
 Guangzhou South
Station, station
 Qing Sheng
Station, station
 Humen
Station, station
 Guangmingcheng
Station, station
 Shenzhen North
Station, station
 Shenzhen Futian
   
 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region border
End station - end of the line
 West Kowloon Station

The high-speed line Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong , better known as Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link , abbreviated XRL , or Guangshen'gang XRL , is the section Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Hong Kong of the high-speed line Beijing-Hong Kong . It consists of the Guangzhou South – Shenzhen North line, which opened on December 26, 2011, and the Shenzhen North – Kowloon West line, which was completed in 2018, on the Kowloon Peninsula . [outdated]

Guangzhou South – Shenzhen North

Operations between Guangzhou South and Shenzhen North began on December 26, 2011. The 102-kilometer route can be driven at 350 km / h. Trains from the CRH3 series are used. The non-stop journey takes 35 minutes, which is half the travel time over the old route from Guangzhou East Railway Station to Luohu Station in Shenzhen. However, the stations on the old line are closer to the center of the cities than the newly built stations on the high-speed line.

Shenzhen North – Kowloon West

In January 2010, construction began on the Shenzhen North – Kowloon West section, which is designed for 200 km / h and is scheduled to open in 2018. [obsolete] 14 km of the route are in Guangdong Province and 26 km in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. In Hong Kong, the route runs exclusively in tunnels that are excavated using both blasting and four tunnel boring machines .

The section between Shenzhen North and Futian stations opened on December 30, 2015. The opening of the rest of the route is expected in the third quarter of 2018 after delays and cost increases. The Futian Railway Station , with an area of 147,000 square meters the second largest at the opening underground station to the Grand Central Terminal in New York , USA .

The terminus West Kowloon Station , the largest underground station in the world, was built for high-speed traffic. The border clearance between mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region also takes place here.

literature

  • Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (Ed.): Hong Kong Section of Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link . Project Profile. 2008, p. 16 ( PDF file; 4.1 MB - maps of the project on pages 14–16).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Shenzhen Daily: Guangzhou-Shenzhen High-speed Rail Opens Dec. 26th Life of Guanzhou, December 14, 2011, accessed December 27, 2012 .
  2. ↑ a b Ada Lee, Ng Kang-chung: Hong Kong to Guangzhou express rail link facing delay of up to 2 years, says MTR. Retrieved May 20, 2014 .
  3. ^ A b c Richard Han: High-speed train leaves new railway station. Shenzhen Daily, January 8, 2016, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ China Daily: High-speed rail to link Shenzhen, Guangzhou. Asia One, December 26, 2011, accessed December 27, 2012 .
  5. ^ Nicole Zhang: New station world's 2nd-largest underground railway station. Shenzhen Daily, January 8, 2016, accessed January 16, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Shenzhen Daily: World's Largest Underground High-Speed ​​Rail Station. freshome, May 2, 2012, accessed December 27, 2012 .