The Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway or Jingguang high-speed railway from its Chinese name is a high-speed railway corridor of the CRH passenger service, connecting Beijing Fengtai station in Beijing and Guangzhounan station in Guangdong. It is long, and is the only Chinese high-speed railway to cross a border that requires immigration and customs clearance. The existing, conventional Jingguang railway runs largely parallel to the line.
The line forms part of the Beijing–Harbin, Beijing–Hong Kong (Macau) corridor, based on the "Eight Verticals and Eight Horizontals" railway master plan announced in 2016.
History Construction started in 2005. The Wuhan–Guangzhou section opened in December 2009, the Guangzhou–Shenzhen section opened in December 2011, the Zhengzhou–Wuhan section opened in September 2012, and the Beijing–Zhengzhou section was opened in December 2012. The cross-border Shenzhen–Hong Kong section opened on 23 September 2018. The line is the world's longest high-speed rail route. The high speed rail line cuts travel time by more than half. The line fully opened on 23 September 2018.
Through-services with other high-speed lines Besides trains running between Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, the railway also has direct service with other connecting high-speed lines. The direct Xi'an–Zhengzhou–Wuhan–Guangzhou–Shenzhen service started simultaneously with the opening of the Zhengzhou–Wuhan section in September 2012, as well as the direct interline service Xi'an-Zhengzhou–Beijing, Taiyuan–Shijiazhuang–Guangzhou, Taiyuan–Shijiazhuang–Wuhan–Guangzhou.京广高铁拟12月下旬开通届时广州直达北京最快约8小时，二等座票价估计近千元 , Xinxi Shibao (信息时报), 2012-11-21. The Hangzhou–Fuzhou–Shenzhen high-speed railway have through operation to Guangzhou South albeit limited due to track situation in Shenzhen North Station.
Connections to local transport To minimize disruptions to existing urban areas and provide large curve radii, the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway, similar to other such railways in China, was constructed in an alignment somewhat different from the existing Beijing–Guangzhou Railway. In most cities served by the high-speed railway, its trains stop at stations built specifically for the new line, which are away from the urban core and the city's conventional railway station. In some of the larger cities, it may take more than an hour to ride a bus or taxi from the city centre to the high-speed rail station. One notable exception is Shijiazhuang station, which is shared with conventional trains and located in city centre (but moved south from the original). It is also possible for high-speed trains to stop at Zhengzhou station and Hankou station, which shared the characteristics of Shijiazhuang Station, but unlike Shijiazhuang they are not on main track of the Beijing-Guangzhou High Speed line.
To alleviate this most of the cities involved have improved the public transit access to the new high-speed rail stations, or plan to do so. Guangzhounan station is already served by Guangzhou Metro (Line 2) and Beijingxi station served by Beijing Subway (Line 7, 9). Wuhan station is served by Wuhan Metro's Line 4 and Zhengzhoudong station by Zhengzhou Metro's Line 1, both of which opened in December 2013, and Shijiazhuang station by Shijiazhuang Metro's Line 3, opened in June 2017.
Transfers to other rail lines Guangzhounan station and Wuhan station are designed as hubs for several high-speed railway (HSR) lines. Frequent service to Zhuhai is available at Guangzhou South, while a connection to Yichang can be made at Wuhan.
Although the Beijing–Guangzhou HSR largely parallels the older conventional Beijing–Guangzhou line, most of the HSR stations are located away from the local conventional train stations. Therefore, direct transfer to conventional (not high-speed) trains is possible only at a few stations along the route. Among them are Beijing West (which is one of the nation's main passenger railway hubs), Shijiazhuang, and Guangzhou North, where both lines meet.
Immigration clearance As Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong portion of the high speed rail passes through an immigration control point. The West Kowloon Terminus was designed to allow both Mainland and Hong Kong officials to conduct immigration control in Hong Kong, but for several years there was an unclear constitutional issue as Mainland officials were thought not to have the constitutional authority to enforce Mainland law in Hong Kong. In November 2017, the Government of Hong Kong resolved this by signing the Co-operation Arrangement for Implementing Co-location Arrangement, designating a portion of West Kowloon railway station as the "Mainland Port Area" that would be subject to Mainland law. Travelers coming from Hong Kong therefore pass through Mainland immigration and customs clearance before boarding their trains, allowing direct service to the entire Mainland high-speed rail network without having to stop at the Mainland-Hong Kong border.
Sections
Section Description Designedspeed(km/h) Length(km) Constructionstart date Open date Toptrip speedBeijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong high-speed railwayHSR Corridor connecting North with Central China, consisting of four segments between Beijing, Shijiazhuang, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.35022301 September 200526 December 2012SeebelowBeijing–Shijiazhuang section(Beijing–Shijiazhuang high-speed railway)HSR from Beijingxi (further: Fengtai) to Shijiazhuang3502818 October 200826 December 2012京石高铁 26日有望通车 -Shijiazhuang–Wuhan section(Shijiazhuang–Wuhan high-speed railway)HSR from Shijiazhuang to Wuhan via Zhengzhoudong83815 October 200828 September 201226 December 2012 -Wuhan–Guangzhou Section(Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway)HSR from Wuhan to Guangzhounan via Changshanan9681 September 200526 December 2009
Station list
Major railway terminals are in bold. Medium-size stations that trains can regularly terminate are in Italics. Stationname Chinese Totaldistance(km) Travel time Railtransfers* Metro and Commuter railtransfers* Platforms Tracks servedby platform Location 250 km/h 350 km/h Prefecture/City Province/Territory Beijing West 0 0:000:00Beijing–Guangzhou railwayBeijing–Kowloon railwayBeijing–Xiong'an intercity railwayBeijing underground cross-city railway Beijing Beijing Zhuozhou East 59 0:26(D901) 0:25(G6723) Baoding Hebei Gaobeidian East 84 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Gaobeidian) 0:30(G505) Baoding East 139 0:45(D923) 0:35(G345) Dingzhou East 200 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Dingzhou) 0:54(G671) Zhengding Airport 244 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Zhengding Airport) 1:06(G629) Shijiazhuang Shijiazhuang 280 1:22(D927) 1:00(G315) Beijing–Guangzhou railwayShijiazhuang–Dezhou railwayShijiazhuang–Taiyuan railwayShijiazhuang–Taiyuan passenger railway Gaoyi West 323 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Gaoyi) 1:45(G511) Xingtai East 384 1:55(D927) 1:36(G345) Xingtai Handan East 437 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Handan) 1:37(G311) Handan Anyang East 496 2:27(D903) 1:48(G367) Anyang Henan Hebi East 542 2:55(D901) 1:56(G305) Hebi Xinxiang East 595 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Xinxiang) 2:21(G345) Xinxiang Zhengzhou East 663 3:08(D919) 2:11(G377) Xuzhou–Lanzhou high-speed railwayZhengzhou–Kaifeng intercity railwayZhengzhou–Xinzheng Airport intercity railway Zhengzhou Xuchang East 744 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Xuchang) 2:43(G333) Xuchang Luohe West 799 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Luohe) 3:53(G527) Luohe Zhumadian West 864 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Zhumadian) 3:09(G307) Zhumadian Minggang East 917 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Minggang) Xinyang Xinyang East 960 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Xinyang East station) 3:21(G317) Xiaogan North 1024 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Xiaogan) 5:10(G1043) XiaoganHubei Hengdian East Wuhan Wuhan 1136 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Wuhan Station) 3:48(G339) Shanghai–Wuhan–Chengdu high-speed railwayWuhan–Jiujiang passenger railwayWuhan–Huangshi intercity railwayWuhan–Huanggang intercity railway Xianning North 1221 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Xianning) 5:46(G505) Xianning Chibi North 1264 Yueyang East 1346 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Yueyang East station) 4:43(G315) YueyangHunan Miluo East 1416 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Miluo) 6:45(G503) Changsha South 1484 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Changsha South station) 5:10(G381) Shanghai–Kunming high-speed railway Changsha Zhuzhou West 1524 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Zhuzhou) 7:42(G503) Zhuzhou Hengshan West 1591 8:30(G1043) Hengyang Hengyang East 1632 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Hengyang) 5:55(G301) Leiyang West 1687 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Leiyang) 8:28(G1051) Chenzhou West 1766 N/A (No D-trains from Beijing currently serve Chenzhou) 9:02(G1051) Chenzhou Lechang East 9:25(G1025) ShaoguanGuangdong Shaoguan 1896 9:20(G1579) Yingde West 1966 Qingyuan Qingyuan 2023 12:59(D2103) 10:06(G1579) Guangzhou North 2060 With connection line to Guangzhou Baiyun railway station, served by D35 (21:22) Guangzhou Guangzhou South 2105 N/A (D35 goes to Guangzhou Baiyun; see above) 7:17(G381) Guangzhou–Zhuhai intercity railwayGuangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong Express Rail LinkGuiyang–Guangzhou high-speed railwayNanning–Guangzhou high-speed railway
See also Beijing–Hong Kong high-speed railway References
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