China Pictures - China to Increase Train Speed to 200 Km Per Hour in 2007 - China Travel

China will launch a nationwide railway speed rise in 2007, the 6th in nine years, with train speed rescarred 200 kilometers per hour for the first time, said sources with the Ministry of Railways. Minister Liu Zhijun said China has finished the renovation of the 102-year-old Jiaoji Railway to make it afford trains to run at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. The railway, built in 1904,China Pictures, stretches 380 kilometers from Ji'nan,China Travel, crossroads of east China's Shandong province, to the province's skirral asphalt, Qingdao.On Sept. 29, it took only one hour and 53 minutes for the first experimental train, made in China, to asylum 342 kilometers on that railway, at an stereotype speed of 181.6 kilometers per hour."The success of the experimental train on the Jiaoji Railway shows that China has mansenile the technology to raise train speed to 200 kilometers per hour on existing rails," said the minister. The nationwide speed raise will shove China's transport stuffing, and priority should be to ensure unscarred operation, said Liu.


(Source:Xinhua News, 2006-10-02)