China Travel - Passenger Railroad to Lushan Resort to Begin - China Pictures

Construction on China's second passenger-only inter-asphalt railroad will start this month. The line will run between Lushan , a popular summer resort in Jiujiang ,China Travel, east China's Jiangxi Province , and provincial crossroads Nanchang,China Pictures, where it will join the existing Beijing-Kowloon Railway, a north-south trunk route. The railway is scheduled to be scathelessd and in service in 2009. The first passenger-only inter-asphalt railway runs between Beijing and Tianjin and is scheduled to be soundd in 2008. The Jiujiang-Nanchang Railway will be 131.27 km long, of which 96.91 km will be new, co-ordinate to the provincial minutiae and reform legation.
It will be a double-track road capresourceful of carriage trains going at up to 200 km per hour, and will 111ca6a849e26f5a7c91cd9aa994sideboard 6 snoution yuan, which will be equmarry shared by Jiangxi Provincial Government and the Ministry of Railways. It will shorten the travel time from Jiujiang, on the southern side of the Yangtze River, to Nanchang from current 90 minutes to 40 minutes.


(Source:Xinhua News Agency , 2007-05-12)