The Lujiang–Tongling railway is a single-track railway 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 and has a design speed of . Passive provision was provided for electrification and a speed increase to . It was built to transport freight, particularly coal and minerals.

History

Construction began on 23 July 2014. The railway opened to freight on 29 December 2018. Passenger services began on 18 March 2019.

Route

The line parts from the Hefei–Jiujiang railway south of

Lujiang Lujiang County () is a county of Anhui Province, East China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Hefei, the capital of Anhui. It is the southernmost county-level division The administrative divisions of China ...

and heads east. There are two intermediate passenger stations: Longqiao and Wuwei South. The line subsequently heads south and crosses the Yangtze via the

Tongling Yangtze River Road-railway Bridge Tongling (; former names: Tunglinghsien, Tungkwanshan) is a prefecture-level city in southern Anhui province. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. As of t ...

, which it shares with the Hefei–Fuzhou high-speed railway. The line ends at Zhongming, where it meets the

Nanjing–Tongling railway Nanjing–Tongling railway or Ningtong railway (), is a single-track railroad in eastern China between Nanjing in Jiangsu Province and Tongling in Anhui Province. The line is long. Major towns along route include Nanjing, Maanshan, Wuhu and Ton ...

References

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