Worlds Longest HSR Opens

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Worlds longest high speed rail line opens Dec 26

Per Trains NewsWire

Tunnel near Changsha under construction on Sept. 8, 2011.


BEJING, China â€" The 1,425-mile Beijing-Guangzhou line, which will be the world’s longest high speed rail line, will open Dec. 26, China Central Television reports. With the opening of the line, trips between the two cities will be cut from 20 to just eight hours.

The Beijing-Guangzhou line will travel through the cities of Shijiazhuang in North China’s Hebei Province, Wuhan in Central China's Hubei Province, and Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, the China Daily reported earlier.

During the first 11 months of 2012, fixed-asset investment in railways in China, including railway infrastructure investment and rolling stock purchases, totaled $81.1 billion, reversing 15 previous months of decline, the Ministry of Railways said. The Chinese government said promoting investment growth is the key to stabilizing economic expansion that has fallen to its slowest pace in three years. Chinese railway construction stagnated after a high speed rail accident in Wenzhou left 35 dead and hundreds injured in July 2011.