High-speed rail from Shenzhen to Yangtze delta near opening

TRAVELERS from Shenzhen will be able to take high-speed trains to Shanghai, Hangzhou and Nanjing when the Xiamen-Shenzhen high-speed rail line opens Dec. 28, Xiamen Daily reported over the weekend.

It will take about 10 hours to ride from Shenzhen or elsewhere in the Pearl River Delta to Shanghai in the Yangtze River Delta. One pair of trains will run between Shenzhen and Nanjing in Jiangsu Province, and another between Shenzhen and Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province.

Xiamen Daily, quoting a train schedule released by railway authorities, said 40 pairs of trains will operate along the line between Shenzhen and Xiamen, including eight pairs between Fuzhou and Shenzhen in a trip that will take about five hours.It currently takes more than 18 hours to get to Fuzhou by train and nine hours by bus.

Four pairs of trains will run between Shenzhen and Xiamen.Train D2315 will leave Xiamen at 7:35 a.m. and arrive in Shenzhen at 11:26 a.m.The first train leaving Shenzhen, D2316, will depart at 10:20 a.m. and arrive in Xiamen at 2:18 p.m.Another pair of trains will link Nanchang and Shenzhen after the Xiamen-Shenzhen line opens.

The 502-kilometer Shenzhen-Xiamen high-speed rail line will link three of China’s economic zones and form another important section of China’s coastal railway artery. It will run through 20 stations in eight cities: Shenzhen, Huizhou, Shanwei, Puning, Shantou, Chaozhou, Zhangzhou and Xiamen. Thirteen of the stations are in Guangdong Province.

The line is the last and longest section of China’s Southeast Coast High-Speed Rail Corridor, also called the Hangzhou-Fuzhou-Shenzhen High-Speed Railway. The line from Shanghai to Shenzhen is one of the eight major corridors of China’s high-speed rail network.

2013-December-10 08:53 Shenzhen Daily by Han Ximin