Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway

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Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway
CRH6A at Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway in Guangzhou in March 2018
Overview
Native name	广深铁路 广深线
Status	Operational
Owner	China Railway
Line number	4
Locale	Guangzhou Dongguan Shenzhen
Termini	Guangzhou Shenzhen
Stations	22
Service
Type	Higher-speed rail
Operator(s)	Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd.
Rolling stock	CRH1A EMU (Guangshen intercity train)
History
Opened	8 October 1911; 110 years ago (1911-10-08)
Technical
Line length	147 km (91.342 mi)
Number of tracks	4
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	Catenary (25 kV AC 50 Hz AC)
Operating speed	200 km/h (120 mph) (tracks 1 and 2) 140 km/h (87 mph) (tracks 3 and 4)
Route map Legend Jingguang railway, Guangmao railway  Guangzhou 0 km Yunlu 4 km Guangzhou East 8 km Shipai 12 km Jishan 20 km Xiayuan 27 km Nangang 32 km Xintang 39 km Shapu 45 km Xiancun 51 km Shitan 60 km Honghai 64 km Shilong 69 km Dongguan 72 km Chashan 75 km Nanshe 78 km Hengli 84 km Changping 90 km Dongguan East Jingjiu railway  Zhangmutou 103 km Tangtouxia 114 km Shigu 119 km Pinghu 127 km Pinghu South to Yantian District in Shenzhen  Pingnan railway to Shenzhen West  Shenzhen East 139 km Sungang 144 km Shenzhen 147 km Lo Wu Bridge, the border between HKSAR & Shenzhen East Rail line of MTR

Guangshen railway or Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway (Chinese: 广深铁路 or 广深线), also known as the Chinese section of the Kowloon–Canton railway (廣九鐵路華段) in 1911–1949, is a railway in Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China, between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It is operated by Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd., a publicly traded company.

With a length of 147 kilometres, it was the first railway in the People's Republic of China to reach the speed of 220 km/h in some sections, though it is limited to about 180 km/h during commercial operation. Now it has four tracks between Guangzhou East and Shenzhen railway station. Line 1 and 2 are up-direction and down-direction 200-km/h (currently restricted to 180 km/h in operation) passenger lines for CRH EMU respectively, and Line 3 and 4 are up-direction and down-direction 160-km/h (currently restricted to 140 km/h in operation) mixed passenger and freight line respectively. In order to reduce the interference to passenger trains in the daytime from lower-speed freight trains, most freight trains will be scheduled to run at night.

Guangshen railway connects with several other important railways to different directions. It links Jingguang railway and Guangmao railway in Guangzhou, Jingjiu railway in Dongguan (with which shares two regular speed track), and the East Rail line to Hong Kong at the southern end of the railway. Besides, there are some branch lines along Guangshen Railway, such as to , Pingnan railway to Shenzhen West railway station and also the line to .

Cross-border services from Hong Kong to Dongguan (Changping), Guangzhou East, Foshan and Zhaoqing, as well as to Beijing West and Shanghai use its route.

History[]

The idea of constructing a railway linking Canton (now Guangzhou) and Kowloon in Hong Kong, a British crown colony germinated in the late Qing dynasty. In 1899, Britain and the Qing government agreed to construct the Kowloon–Canton railway (KCR, also known as Canton-Kowloon Railway), but Britain postponed the construction as Britain was busy at the Second Boer War in Africa. In 1907, Qing government and Britain formally signed an agreement in Peking on issuing a £100-million bond as part of loan for the construction of the Chinese section of the Kowloon–Canton railway. In July 1907, construction of the British Section of the KCR began. The construction of Chinese section was delayed and only started in 1909. Under the loan contract, China needed to employ the British engineers for the construction of Chinese section, but China still employed famous Chinese railway engineer, Zhan Tianyou, as a consultant. On 8 October 1911, the Chinese section of KCR with total length of 142.77 km (88.71 mi)was opened.^[1] The northern end of railway at that time was located in Dashatou (大沙頭), Guangzhou, was demolished in 1951. The through train service between Kowloon and Guangzhou also started to operate at the same time.

After the establishment of People's Republic of China in October 1949, the 'Chinese section of the Canton–Kowloon railway' was renamed 'Guangshen railway', and repairs were made to sections of the railroad damaged during the war. In 1967, railway department carried out a comprehensive maintenance on Guangshen railway to improve the transport capacity. Beginning in the 1980s economic reform policies of China, the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and rapid economic development in the Pearl River Delta region has brought large volume of imported goods and increased passenger demand to the railway. Therefore, the second line of Guangshen Railway was constructed during 1984 to 1987 in order to meet the huge demand. Simultaneously Guangshen Railway Company (the predecessor of Guangshen Railway Company), which was directly subordinated to the Guangzhou Railway Bureau (now Guangzhou Railway Group), was established. This company was in charge of the construction projects and operational management of Guangshen Railway. In 1987, Guangshen railway became the first double-track railway in Guangdong province.

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  Bond agreement signed in 1907

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  Foundation ceremony of the Chinese Section of KCR in 1909. Group photo of both Chinese and British officials.

Indeed, Guangshen railway is the first place in China to carry out successfully speed-up on the existing railroad. At the beginning of the 1990s, Guangzhou Railway Bureau and the Ministry of Railways carried out the pre-feasibility research about raising the maximum speed of passenger trains to 160 km/h. At 28 December 1991, the construction of the third line of Guangshen railway, and the speed-up improvement works of original double tracks started. In October 1994, the maximum speed of a train reached 174 km/h during the test. At 22 December 1994, the first sub-high speed (160 km/h) passenger train in China started commercial operation between Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Fourth track of Guangshen railway under construction

In 1998, the electrification of two sub-high speed lines of Guangshen railway was finished. After the improvement the 200 km/h high speed trains are allowed to run on the existing subhigh speed railroad. A Swedish-built X 2000 tilting train called 'Xinshisu' began to serve intercity train service between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, as well as the through train to Hong Kong. The train are 165m long, consisting of a power car, five passenger cars, and a trailing car. The non-power cars can have a pitch of up to 8 degrees. They are noted for being very quiet (less than 65 dBA) even at 200 km/h.

Construction of the fourth track was commenced at 31 December 2005, and was finished at 18 April 2007 in time for the Sixth Speed-Up Campaign. Since then Guangshen railway has been the first four-track railway in mainland China and it allows passenger trains and freight trains to run on separate lines.

Guangshen intercity trains[]

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Tickets of intercity trains

CRH1A running on Guangshen railway

As of 2007, intercity train service between Guangzhou and Shenzhen uses 8-car CRH1A highspeed EMU. There are 100 pairs of trains operated daily, in which 98 pairs will stop for 1.5 minutes at three stations: Zhangmutou, Dongguan and Shilong. On the 'As-frequent-as-buses' basis, one pair of trains is dispatched every 5 minutes on average during peak hours. The fastest journey time is 52 minutes between Guangzhou East and Shenzhen for D7002 and D7008 with no stop.

Rolling stock[]

Stations[]

Stations with services[]

Most of the stations on the line are now abandoned for passenger service. Currently, the only stations on the line offering passengers service are, in order:

Station No.	Station Name	Chinese	Distance km		PRD MIR (CR C-train) transfers/connections	Metro transfers/connections	Location
GZQ	Guangzhou	广州	0	0	GFZ *  GQ	2   5	Yuexiu	Guangzhou
GGQ	Guangzhou East Guangzhoudong	广州东	8	8	SS *	1   3	Tianhe
RTQ	Dongguan	东莞	64	72		2	Shilong	Dongguan
DAQ	Changping	常平	18	90			Changping
ZOQ	Zhangmutou	樟木头	13	103			Zhangmutou
PHQ	Pinghu	平湖	24	127		10	Longgang	Shenzhen
BJQ	Shenzhen East Shenzhendong	深圳东	12	139		3 5
SZQ	Shenzhen	深圳	8	147		1 East Rail	Luohu

All existing stations[]

Existing stations
		Station Name English	Station Name Chinese	Total Distance	Transfer	Location	Grade	Notes
●	●	Guangzhou	广州	0	2  5	Yuexiu, Guangzhou	T [note 1]	The departure station for minor Guangzhou – Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	｜	Yunlu	云麓	4			4	Not for passenger service. Decommissioned in 2009.
●	●	Guangzhou East	广州东	8	1  3	Tianhe, Guangzhou	1	The stop and departure station for all Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	●	Shipai	石牌	14			4	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜		黄埔	18			2	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜		九运会					Decommissioned in 2002.
｜	●	Jishan	吉山	20			3	Not for passenger service.
●	●	Xiayuan	下元	27		Huangpu, Guangzhou	3	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜	Nangang	南岗	32			4	Decommissioned in 2009.
｜	●	Xintang	新塘	39		Zengcheng, Guangzhou	4	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜	Shapu	沙浦	45			5	Decommissioned in 2007.
｜	｜		塘美				4	Decommissioned in 2007.
●	●	Xiancun	仙村	51			4	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜	Shitan	石滩	60			4	Decommissioned in 2009.
｜	｜	Honghai	红海	64			4	Not for passenger service. Decommissioned in 2006.
｜	｜	Shilong	石龙	69		Shilong, Dongguan	3	Decommissioned in 2014.
●	●	Dongguan	东莞	72	2		2	Stopping station for all Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	●	Chashan	茶山	75		Chashan, Dongguan	4	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜	Nanshe	南社	78			4	Decommissioned in 2007.
｜	｜	Hengli	横沥	84		Hengli, Dongguan	4	Decommissioned in 2009.
●	●	Changping	常平	90		Changping, Dongguan	2	Stopping station for all Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	｜		土塘	94			5	Decommissioned
●	●	Zhangmutou	樟木头	103		Zhangmutou, Dongguan	3	Stopping station for all Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	｜		林村			Tangxia, Dongguan	4	Decommissioned in 2010.
●	●	Tangtouxia	塘头厦	114			4	Not for passenger service.
｜	｜	Shigu	石鼓	119			4	Decommissioned in 2007.
｜	｜	Tiantangwei	天堂围	122		Fenggang, Dongguan	4	Decommissioned in 2007.
●	●	Pinghu	平湖	127	10	Longgang, Shenzhen	4	Stopping station for some Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
｜	●	Pinghu South	平湖南	131				Not for passenger service.
｜	｜		李朗				4	Decommissioned in 2007.
●	●	Shenzhen East	深圳东	139	35		3	Departure station for some non-high-speed trains. Intercity trains do not stop here.
●	●	Sungang	笋岗	144		Luohu, Shenzhen	1	Not for passenger service.
●	●	Shenzhen	深圳	147	1		1	The departure station for all Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity trains (CRH)
↓ Through-service to/from Hung Hom (Kowloon) via East Rail line ↓

Cross-Line Traffic[]

There are services of EMUs using Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway as part of the route. 12 daily trains are offered between Guangzhou East Railway Station and Chaoshan Railway Station, one of which will continue to Xiamen. Starting 10 July 2019, there will also be a daily service between Shenzhen Railway Station and Huaiji Railway Station on Guiyang-Guangzhou HSR.^[2]

See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway.

• China Railway
• List of railway lines in China
• Rail transport in China
• Kowloon–Canton Railway
• Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail Link

References[]

External links[]

• Guangshen Railway (official site)
• MTR Intercity Passenger Services