Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd. (GSRC) is the operator of Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway (Guang-shen Railway), the 152-kilometre railway link between Guangzhou and Shenzhen in

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, China. The company is engaged in railway passenger and

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between Shenzhen and Pingshi and certain long-distance passenger transportation services. It also cooperates with

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in operating the

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passenger service. The market capitalization of Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd. is around HK$5 billion in January 2016.

History

Guangshen Railway was the Chinese section of

Kowloon–Canton Railway The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; ) was a railway network in Hong Kong.Legislative Council information paper CB(1)357/07-08(0 THB(T) CR 8/986/00, CB(1)1749/07-08(0/ref> It was owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCR ...

(Canton was the old name of Guangzhou). In 1949 the Chinese section was taken under the control of the new state. It was under the supervision of Guangzhou Railway Bureau (now

Guangzhou Railway Group China Railway Guangzhou Group, officially abbreviated as CR Guangzhou or CR-Guangzhou, formerly, Guangzhou Railway (Group) Corporation from 1993 to 2017 and Guangzhou Railway Administration from 1953 to 1993, is a subsidiaries company under the ju ...

). The railway was later incorporated as Guangshen Railway Corp. () in 1984.

Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd.

The company was re- incorporated in 1996 as a joint-stock company with limited liabilities. Its H shares were listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1996; the

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of the H shares also listed in the

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in the same year. Its A shares were listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2006. It is currently the only Chinese railway enterprise with shares listed in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York.

Operations

United Kingdom

In June 2017 in partnership with

, the company was shortlisted to bid for the

West Coast Partnership The West Coast Partnership (WCP) is a railway franchise in the United Kingdom for passenger trains on the West Coast Main Line (WCML)(and branches thereof), between London Euston, the West Midlands, Shropshire, North Wales, Liverpool, Manchest ...

franchise in the United Kingdom.Three shortlisted for West Coast Partnership franchise
'' Railway Gazette International'' 22 June 2017

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