A new high-speed railway will shorten the travel time from
Shanghai to Nanjing to one hour from three, the Oriental
Morning Post reported today after the country's top planning
body approved the project.
The railway will connect eight cities in the Yangtze Delta
Region.
The 39.46-billion-yuan (US$5.52 billion) railway is to be funded
by the governments of both cities and the Ministry of Railways, the
report said.
Planners will set up 27 stations along the 300-kilometer route
to connect Shanghai, Kunshan, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Danyang,
Zhenjiang and Nanjing, the report said.
The line will adopt bullet trains with a designed speed of 200
kilometers per hour that will cut travel time from three hours to
one, the report said.
The line will have a minimum train interval of about three
minutes and will run 24 hours, the report said.
Thirty-two kilometers of the line will be in Shanghai while 268
kilometers will run across Jiangsu Province, the report added.
The railway ministry also plans to build new rail links to
connect Shanghai and Hangzhou, Changzhou and Suzhou, Suzhou and
Jiaxing, as well as Hangzhou and Ningbo, the report said.
(Shanghai Daily February 21, 2008)