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Changes of Chongqing Caiyuanba Railway Station

2019-05-17 10:20:53

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- Chongqing Railway Group Co., Ltd. recently released the 2nd Publicity of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the New Chongqing-Qianjiang Railway. According to the report, Chongqing Railway Station will be rebuilt and the new Chongqing-Qianjiang Railway will be connected with the Chengdu-Chongqing High-speed Railway via this station.

There will be 8 stations along the new Chongqing-Qianjiang Railway (hereinafter referred to as “Chongqing-Qianjiang High-speed Railway”) in total, including 6 new stations, Chongqingdong Railway Station, Banan Railway Station, Nanchuanbei Railway Station, Shuijiangbei Railway Station, Wulongnan Railway Station, Pengshuixi Railway Station, and 2 reconstructed stations, Chongqing Railway Station and Qianjiang Railway Station.

For Chongqing Railway Station, many people are used to calling it Caiyuanba Railway Station. In 1952, Chengdu-Chongqing Railway, China’s first railway was built. Caiyuanba Railway Station was put into service at the same time, which has been in service for 67 years. It undertakes common passenger trains of Chengdu-Chongqing Railway and Sichuan-Guizhou Railway, and a small number of passenger trains from Xiangyang-Chongqing Railway to Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway.

For its reconstruction, this report disclosed that Chongqing Railway Station is constructed according to the elevated waiting room, with a maximum number of 10,000 people. It is a main passenger station in Chongqing, in which the Chongqing-Qianjiang High-speed Railway will be connected with the Chengdu-Chongqing High-speed Railway.

According to the Chongqing Medium and Long-term Railway Network Plan, Chongqing Railway Station will be reconstructed as a main station in Chongqing, to form the four main passenger stations together with Chongqingbei Railway Station, Chongqingxi Railway Station, Chongqingdong Railway Station.

Chongqing-Qianjiang High-speed Railway starts from Chongqing Railway Station, and then across the Yangtze River to Chongqingdong Railway Station. It’s understood that an underwater tunnel will be constructed between the two stations.

It’s said that this underwater tunnel, with a total length of 11,942 meters and a greatest depth of 322 meters, is a dominant engineering, which will be the first underwater railway tunnel of the Yangtze River in China after its completion. (Translated by Mao Qiao, Fathom Language Limited)

Editor:Jiang Yiwei