China has started to lay the tracks on Datong-Zhangjiakou high-speed rail and is scheduled to be launched at the end of 2019. The construction works for the 140-km line were started at the end of 2015.
The project is part of the transport development programme as China will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. Also, the new line is a priority transport project under country’s 13th Five-Year Plan period which will end in 2020.
The new line will allow trains to run at speeds of 250 km/h, covering the distance in 40 minutes between Datong and Zhangjiakou. It will also provide the connection to Beijing, cutting the travel time from six hours to one hour and 40 minutes.
Datong-Zhangjiakou HSR will offer high-speed connection to Tianjin, and Hebei, Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces, running from Huairen county in Shanxi to Huaian county in Hebei province, with a total length of 141.5 kilometers, and the Shanxi section runs for 124 km. The line also joins with several others, such as the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, Zhangjiakou-Hohhot Railway and Datong-Xi’an Railway.
The project has a total cost of USD 2.72 billion and consists of 16 construction sites where complex projects like Daliang Mountain Tunnel are built by China Railway 17 Bureau Group.
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