• New railway lines in China

    From Ulf Kutzner@21:1/5 to Patrick Bonacker on Fri Mar 19 01:01:58 2021
    Patrick Bonacker schrieb am Freitag, 31. Mai 2002 um 13:50:16 UTC+2:

    on Tue, 28 May 2002 23:01:26 +0200, "Helmut Uttenthaler" <ut...@sbox.tugraz.at> wrote:
    from http://www.railjournal.com/altfeature1.shtml

    China Spends Its Way Out Of Capacity Problems
    [...]
    The development of eight north-south and eight east-west corridors is at the >heart of the five-year plan. The eight north-south corridors, or the eight >verticals as the Chinese call them, include the 1300km Beijing--Shanghai >high-speed line, and the following:
    [...]
    • the coastal corridor from Shenyang to Guangzhou via the Dalian--Yantai >train ferry
    Yantai - Guangzhou how? (along the very coast?)
    • the Beijing--Nanchang--Shenzhen--Kowloon corridor
    Almost completely new? (New Yangtze bridge at Jiujiang or so?)


    As you mentioned Yangtze, there was a river train ferry on a quite new
    line until 2019:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinyi%E2%80%93Changxing_railway

    Regards, ULF

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