Shanghai – Kunming high-speed line

Shanghai – Kunming high-speed line
Route length:	2264 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	25 kV 50 Hz  ~
Top speed:	350 km / h
Legend km (only the main train stations shown) 0 Shanghai-Hongqiao Shanghai South from Nanjing 155 Hangzhou East to Jixi North to Ningbo Peng Port Bridge over the Qiantang (2,861 m) Jinhua to Wenzhou Quzhou to Wuhan from Huangshan Shangrao to Nanping Yingtan from Sanming Nanchang West to Jiujiang from Wuhan Changsha South to Hengyang Loudi to Hengjang from Hengjang Huaihua Xinhuang West according to Tongren Yuping East also: Tongren South from Guilin from Kaiyang from Chongqing Guiyang North from Nanning 2266 Kunming South

The high-speed line Shanghai – Kunming , also known as Hukun PDL for Hukun Passenger Dedicated Line ( Chinese  沪 昆 高速 铁路 , Pinyin Hùkūn Gāosù Tiělù  - "High-speed railway line Hukun"), has been a high-speed line in China that has been running continuously from east to west since December 28, 2016 . With a length of 2,264 km, it is the longest high-speed route in the world. The travel time for the entire route is just over ten hours, which is less than a third of the 34 hours previously required.

Hukun stands for the abbreviations of the two terminal stations, Hu means Shanghai , Kun stands for Kunming . Passenger Dedicated Line is the term used in China for a high-speed route that is used exclusively for tourist traffic.

construction

The route was opened in six stages. The first section opened at the end of 2010 and comprised the new Shanghai-Hongqiao train station at the airport of the same name . The last section opened is Guiyang – Kunming, which went into operation at the end of December 2016. The following are the dates of the start of operations for the individual route sections in chronological order:

• Shanghai– Hangzhou : October 26, 2010
• Nanchang - Changsha : September 16, 2014
• Hangzhou – Nanchang: December 10, 2014
• Changsha– Xinhuang : December 16, 2014
• Xinhuang– Guiyang : June 18, 2015
• Guiyang – Kunming: December 28, 2016.

Route description

The route, designed for 350 km / h, connects the port city of Shanghai with Kunming and serves the provinces of Zhejiang , Jiangxi , Hunan , Guizhou and Yunnan . It is divided into the following three sections, with the Chinese names again using the abbreviations of the end stations:

• High-speed line Shanghai – Hangzhou , also Huhang PDL ( 沪杭 高速 铁路 , Hùháng Gāosù Tiělù )
• High-speed line Hangzhou – Changsha , also Hangzhang PDL ( 杭 长 高速 铁路 , Hángzhǎng Gāosù Tiělù )
• Changsha – Kunming high-speed line , also Zhangkun PDL ( 长 昆 高速 铁路 , Zhǎngkūn Gāosù Tiělù )

literature

• bac: China is putting numerous new lines into operation . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 4/2019, p. 186f.

Web links

Commons : Shanghai – Kunming high-speed line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bac: China , p. 186.
2. ↑ 江 巍: Shanghai-Kunming high-speed rail in full operation. In: Chinadaily US Edition. December 28, 2016, accessed January 15, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Longest high-speed route in the world opened. In: SZ-Online. December 27, 2012, accessed on January 15, 2017 (longer than the Beijing – Guangzhou high-speed route , the longest route in the world to date). 
4. ↑ China: 750 billion euros for new rail projects. (No longer available online.) The Mobility Manager, January 3, 2017, archived from the original on January 15, 2017 ; accessed on January 15, 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.