The Dezhou–Dajiawa railway is a single-track electrified railway line in

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 ...

. The combined passenger and freight line is long. Passenger services currently operate between

Dezhou 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 t ...

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 A Ministry of Railways is a Cabinet department that exists or has existed in many Commonwealth states as well as others. It generally occurs in countries where railroad transportation is a particularly important part of the national infrastructur ...

and

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 civilizatio ...

. 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 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, ...

south of Dezhou and heads east. There are several branches, including a chord which leads on to the

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, between Zibo and Dongying. The railway has a total length of . and was c ...

heading north towards

Dongying Dongying (), a prefecture-level city, lies on the northern (Bohai Sea) coast of Shandong province, People's Republic of China. As of the 2020 census, 2,193,518 people resided within its administrative area of and 1,188,656 in the built-up area ...

. 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-longest river system in the world at th ...

east of Binzhou. At Dajiawa, the line continues east as the freight-only Dajiawa–Laizhou–Longkou railway. The line is used for coal transportation to a plant near Binzhou.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dezhou-Dajiawa railway Railway lines in China Railway lines opened in 2015