The Haoji Railway (), fully known as Kholbolji/Haolebaoji to Ji'an railway (), formerly known as Menghua Railway (West Inner Mongolia to Central China), is a freight-dedicated railway in China. It runs from Haolebaoji South railway station in

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to Ji'an railway station in

Ji'an Ji'an () is a prefecture-level city situated in the central region of Jiangxi province of the People's Republic of China while bordering Hunan province to the west. It has an area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,469,176, of ...

City,

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. It was built to facilitate coal transport from

and Shanxi to China's southern provinces at up to 200 million tons a year. The railway is also the first north-south railway in China that is dedicated to coal, and is built to bypass existing coal transport routes that go via coastal cities by ship. The line will reduce transit time from 20 days by sea to just 3 days. The line connects to existing railways at several points to share maintenance facilities. The design speed of the railway is . The line was approved in 2014 at a cost of US$27.2 billion, financed by China Railway and several large domestic coal mining companies. The railway was inaugurated on 28 September 2019.

Major engineering works

* Hanjiang Bridge, long

cable-stayed bridge A cable-stayed bridge has one or more ''towers'' (or ''pylons''), from which cables support the bridge deck. A distinctive feature are the cables or stays, which run directly from the tower to the deck, normally forming a fan-like pattern ...

carrying the railway over the Hanjiang River. * An long viaduct in

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. * Sanmenxia Bridge, a double-level road-rail bridge over the

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. * Dongting Lake Bridge, cable-stayed bridge over

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Operating speed

For Jinzhou-Yueyang section only the designated speed is 200km/h rather than 120km/h, although presently not implemented.

References

External links

Haoji Railway on Openstreetmap
{{Transport in China Railway lines in China Rail transport in Inner Mongolia Rail transport in Shaanxi Rail transport in Shanxi Rail transport in Henan Rail transport in Hubei Rail transport in Hunan Rail transport in Jiangxi Railway lines opened in 2019

Major engineering works

Operating speed

See also

References

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