The Yuxi–Mohan railway or Yumo railway (), is the Chinese section of the Lao–China Railway (LCR) in

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. The line runs from

Yuxi Yuxi ( zh, c=玉溪, p=Yùxī) is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Yunnan province of the People's Republic of China. The administrative center of Yuxi is Hongta District. Yuxi is approximately south of Kunming. Geography Yuxi i ...

in central Yunnan to Mohan, a town in

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on the border with

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in the

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of southern Yunnan. The Yumo railway is designed to "provide efficient, safe, low-carbon, affordable, railway transport" within Yunnan Province. Branching from the existing

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at Yuxi and connecting directly to the

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on the Laotian side, the Yumo railway is a part of the Kunming–Singapore railway and will eventually carry traffic across the

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Early stage construction began on September 1, 2015.(Chinese
云南玉磨铁路年内全线开建
2015-09-01 The project is estimated to cost ¥46.46 billion. The railway is electrified, and has double-track from Yuxi to

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and single-track from Jinghong to Mohan. Cities and towns along route include Yuxi, Pu'er, Jinghong and Mohan. The railway opened on December 3, 2021.

History

After China and 17 other Asian countries signed the Trans-Asian Railway Network Agreement in June 2006, the Yuxi–Mohan railway was proposed as a component of the Kunming–Singapore railway Central Route, which would connect Kunming,

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and

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. In September 2010, state media in Yunnan reported that the Ministry of Railways had held a planning conference for the Yuxi–Mohan railway in August and that construction of the

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electrified line, in length and capable of accommodating trains traveling at speeds of up to , would begin by the end of 2010. The line was reported to cost ¥53.9 billion and take five years to build. Overland travel time from Kunming to Jinghong would be reduced from 9 hours to 2.5 hours. On December 30, 2010, Chinese state media reported that early preparatory work for the Yumo railway had been completed, but the final construction plan had not been publicized. Construction began on a railway logistics center in Mohan. The railway project was delayed, however, after the removal of railway Minister

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for corruption in February 2011 and the subsequent reorganization of the Railway Ministry into the

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in March 2013. A preliminary feasibility conference for the project was organized in Beijing on November 30, 2013 by the

at which railway planners and Yunnan officials expressed their desire to see the project proceed quickly.

Construction

Construction on two early-stage segments began on September 1, 2015 with the full-scale construction on the line on 19 April 2016. According to Xinhua News Agency in Yuxi, the line is scheduled to be 507.4 km long, costing 51,609 million yuan, reach maximum speeds of 160 km/h, taking 6 years to complete construction. It is scheduled to open in December 2021. Running times are scheduled to be 1.5 hours from

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to Eshan, to be within 3 hours from

to Pu'er, to be about 3 hours from

, and 5 hours from

to Mohan. The construction is divided into 22 segments. The 6820-meter Yueyatian Tunnel (月牙田隧道) is done on 30 December 2019.

Stations

There are 13 stations, including: *

(玉溪站) * (研和站) * (峨山站) * (罗里站) * (元江站) * (墨江站) * (宁洱站) * (普洱站) * (勐养站) * (西双版纳站) at Jinghong City - End of electrified double track section * (橄榄坝站) * (勐腊站) * (磨憨站) Five more stations will be included later, including: * (飞龙) * (梭罗河) * Mengyuan (勐远) * (曼勒) * (普文)

Rail connections

* Mohan:

** The connection to Boten (Laos) is through the long China-Laos Railway Friendship Tunnel

References

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