Xitieshan-Beihuobuxun Railway Line Opens in China

A local railway which goes through an area rich in salt and non-ferrous metals in Northwest China’s Qinghai province was officially put into operation on Friday.

Xitieshan-Beihuobuxun Railway Line Opens in China
December 19, 2015 2:54 am
1.101

A local railway which goes through an area rich in salt and non-ferrous metals in Northwest China’s Qinghai province was officially put into operation on Friday.

The 45.2-km Xi-Bei Railway links Xitieshan and Beihuobuxun in the Qaidam Basin in northwestern Qinghai, according to the Department of Transportation of Qinghai.

Qinghai has the most salt lakes in the country, with most distributed in the Qaidam Basin.

[quote font=”arial” font_size=”20″]

“The single-line electrified railway can carry trains at a speed of 80 km per hour,” said Wang Gang, general manager of the Qinghai Local Railway Construction Investment Company. “Annual transport volume is estimated to reach 14 million tonnes.”

 

[/quote][quote font=”arial” font_size=”20″][/quote]Construction on the railway began in 2012. It is the first local railway built and operated by a local company.

The railway provides a new and massive way to transport salt lake resources other than traditional motor transport.

Railwaynews.net is a railway information and news platform. Website presents from all around the world railway sector news, developments, projects and tender for the sector specialists. Railwaynews supports to industry events and announced them for potential participants. Railwaynews plans to collecting data from all around the world, about railway infrastructure, rolling stock, railway transportation datum, geographical datum to present for railway professionals for short term. Railwaynews will build new platforms aims to high value railway business environment for all railway specialists, railway fans and especially railway suppliers and their decision makers. Railwaynews presents whole information from rail professionals to rail professionals.
COMMENTS

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

No comments yet, be the first filling the form below.