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Dezhou–Dajiawa Railway
The Dezhou–Dajiawa railway is a single-track electrified railway line in China. The combined passenger and freight line is long. Passenger services currently operate between Dezhou and Dongying South, the section from Dongying South to Dajiawa is only used by freight trains. History Construction on the line began in November 2009. The line was built as a joint project between the Ministry of Railways and Shandong Province. The railway opened with the first passenger services on 28 September 2015. Freight operation began in 2017. Route The line departs from the Beijing–Shanghai railway south of Dezhou and heads east. There are several branches, including a chord which leads on to the Zibo–Dongying railway heading north towards Dongying. It crosses the Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezhou–Dajiawa Railway
The Dezhou–Dajiawa railway is a single-track electrified railway line in China. The combined passenger and freight line is long. Passenger services currently operate between Dezhou and Dongying South, the section from Dongying South to Dajiawa is only used by freight trains. History Construction on the line began in November 2009. The line was built as a joint project between the Ministry of Railways and Shandong Province. The railway opened with the first passenger services on 28 September 2015. Freight operation began in 2017. Route The line departs from the Beijing–Shanghai railway south of Dezhou and heads east. There are several branches, including a chord which leads on to the Zibo–Dongying railway heading north towards Dongying. It crosses the Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellow River
The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai province of Western China, it flows through nine provinces, and it empties into the Bohai Sea near the city of Dongying in Shandong province. The Yellow River basin has an east–west extent of about and a north–south extent of about . Its total drainage area is about . The Yellow River's basin was the Yellow River civilization, birthplace of ancient Chinese, and, by extension, Far East, Far Eastern civilization, and it was the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. There are frequent devastating natural disasters in China, floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding farm fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Rail
Various terms are used for passenger railway lines and equipment; the usage of these terms differs substantially between areas: Rapid transit A rapid transit system is an electric railway characterized by high speed (~) and rapid acceleration. It uses passenger railcars operating singly or in multiple unit trains on fixed rails. It operates on separate rights-of-way from which all other vehicular and foot traffic are excluded (i.e. is fully grade-separated from other traffic). It uses sophisticated signaling systems, and high platform loading. Originally, the term ''rapid transit'' was used in the 1800s to describe new forms of quick urban public transportation that had a right-of-way separated from street traffic. This set rapid transit apart from horsecars, trams, streetcars, omnibuses, and other forms of public transport. A variant of the term, ''mass rapid transit (MRT)'', is also used for metro systems in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Though the term was almost alway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezhou Railway Station
Dezhou () is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Jinan to the southeast, Liaocheng to the southwest, Binzhou to the northeast, and the province of Hebei to the north. History Sulu Royal Family The King of Sulu Paduka Pahala from the first royal family on Sulu before the Hashemites went on a tribute mission to the Ming dynasty Yongle Emperor. He died of natural causes in China and his two sons and wife were left in the care of Hui Muslims in Dezhou, Shandong. The two families descended from the two sons were given the surnames An and Wen by the Ming Emperors. They lived through the Ming and Qing dynasties and still live in Dezhou today. The Kingdom of Sulu was converted to Islam, and the Hashemite Sharif ul-Hāshim of Sulu arrived in Sulu and married a princess of the previous non-Hashemite royal family, founding the Sulu Sultanate. Tausug delegations from Sulu have visited Dezh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongying South Railway Station
Dongying South railway station () is a railway station in Dongying District, Dongying, Shandong, China. The freight-only Huanghua–Dajiawa railway passes between the station building and platforms, but does not have a stop here. History The station opened with the Dezhou–Dajiawa railway The Dezhou–Dajiawa railway is a single-track electrified railway line in China. The combined passenger and freight line is long. Passenger services currently operate between Dezhou and Dongying South, the section from Dongying South to Dajiawa ... on 28 September 2015. See also * Dongying railway station References {{Second Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Railway Railway stations in Shandong Railway stations in China opened in 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dyna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Railways (China)
Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ministry, activity by Christians to spread or express their faith ** Minister (Christianity), clergy authorized by a church or religious organization to perform teaching or rituals ** Ordination, the process by which individuals become clergy * Ministry of Jesus, activities described in the Christian gospels * ''Ministry'' (magazine), a magazine for pastors published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church Music * Ministry (band), an American industrial metal band * Ministry of Sound, a London nightclub and record label Fiction * Ministry (comics), a horror comic book created by writer-artist Lara J. Phillips * Ministry of Magic, governing body in the ''Harry Potter'' series * Ministry of Darkness, a professional wrestling stable l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and a site with one of the longest histories of continuous religious worship in the world. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius and was later established as the center of Confucianism. Confucianism developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. Shandong's location at the intersection of ancient and modern no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beijing–Shanghai Railway
The Beijing–Shanghai railway or Jinghu railway () is a railway line between Beijing and Shanghai. The line has a total length of and connects the municipalities of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, as well as the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu. It is commonly referred to as the Jinghu railway, taking on the abbreviated names of the two terminal cities. In Chinese, ''Jing'' means "capital" and refers to Beijing, and ''Hu'' is the abbreviated name for Shanghai. History The Beijing–Shanghai railway is composed of three sections. These three sections are some of the earliest railways in China, built before 1910 during the Qing dynasty. The first section is from Beijing to Tianjin, constructed as part of the Imperial Railways of Northern China between 1897 and 1900. The second section is from Tianjin to Pukoua suburb of Nanjingand used to be called the Tianjin–Pukou railway. The third section is from Nanjing to Shanghai, built between 1905 and 1908. This sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zibo–Dongying Railway
The Zibo–Dongying railway or Zidong railway (), also called the Zhangdian–Dongying railway or Zhangdong railway, is a railroad in Shandong Province of northern China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ..., between Zibo and Dongying. The railway has a total length of . and was completed in 1972. The line branches off of the Jiaozhou–Jinan railway at the Zhangdian station near Zibo. Major cities and towns along route include Zibo, Boxing County, and Dongying. History From Apr 14th 2016, Zidong railway began upgrading with total investment of 1.1 Billion RMB, and the scheduled completion date is the end of 2017. After this upgrade, the rail speed limit of Zidong railway will upgrade from less than 50 km/h to 120 km/h. Dongying will be fully connected with Qin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
