CONSTRUCTION officially started on China\u2019s newest high-speed line, the link between Zhangzou and Shantou on February 4.<\/p>\n
The 176km line is costed at Yuan 40.1bn ($US 5.64bn) and is due to be completed in the second half of 2028.<\/p>\n
The line is an important part of the country\u2019s \u2018eight by eight\u2019 grid of high-speed rail corridors. It will link the Shantou – Guangzhou and Fuzhou – Xiamen – Zhangzhou high-speed lines. These routes, together with the Wenfu – Fuzhou and Ningbo – Wenzhou high-speed lines, will form a 350km\/h rail corridor along China\u2019s southeastern coast.<\/p>\n
The new line, linking Fujian and Guangdong provinces, includes a total of seven stations. Zhangzhou, Zhangpu and two stations in Shantou are existing interchanges, while Dongshan County, Zhao’an South and Raoping South are new.<\/p>\n
For details of high-speed projects across the globe, subscribe to IRJ Pro<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Construction starts on Zhangzou – Shantou HSL in southeast China<\/a> appeared first on International Railway Journal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CONSTRUCTION officially started on China\u2019s newest high-speed line, the link between Zhangzou and Shantou on February 4. The 176km line is costed at Yuan 40.1bn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rail-news","category-transport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}