CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co. has announced that an automated high-speed railway line linking Beijing and Zhangjiakou will be tested in 2019.
The 174-kilometer intercity railway is a high-speed rail line, with a designed speed of up to 350 km/h. Construction work on the line began in April 2016 and is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. There are 10 stations along the line, under the government plan.
Travel time between Beijing to Zhangjiakou in Hebei province will be shortened from the current three-odd hours to within an hour after the trains start normal operations.
The trains which will operate on the line are built using environment friendly materials and can save more than 7.5 percent of the energy consumed to power the trains presently. The first automated train will complete its trial run on a route linking Beijing and Shenyang in Liaoning province in the summer of next year.
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