The Ürümqi-Dzungaria railway or Wuzhun railway () is a single-track railway line in
Xinjiang
Xinjiang,; , SASM/GNC romanization, SASM/GNC: Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Sinkiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People' ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...
, between
Ürümqi
Ürümqi, , is the capital of the Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in Northwestern China. With a census population of 4 million in 2020, Ürümqi is the second-largest city in China's northwestern interior after Xi'an, also the ...
, the regional capital of Xinjiang, and the coal fields of the eastern
Junggar Basin
The Junggar Basin (), also known as the Dzungarian Basin or Zungarian Basin, is one of the largest sedimentary basins in Northwest China. It is located in Dzungaria in northern Xinjiang, and enclosed by the Tarbagatai Mountains of Kazakhstan in t ...
(Dzungaria).
The railway is in length and runs east from Ürümqi to Wucaiwan (, in
Jimsar County) to
Jiangjunmiao
Jiangjunmiao ( Chinese: 将军庙, pinyin: Jiàngjūnmiào) is a ruin and fossil site in Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.
Geography
Jiangjunmiao is located in the Junggar Basin near the border with Mongolia, on a mesa and at t ...
(), in the northern part of
Qitai County
Qitai County ( zh, s=奇台县) as the official romanized name, also transliterated from Uyghur as Guqung County or Gucheng County (; zh, s=古城县), is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China under the administration of th ...
. The line opened in 2009 and was built primarily to carry coal.
[
At its northern end, the line meets the Altay–Fuyun–Zhundong railway.]
Passenger services
On 12 July 2019, a passenger service was introduced between Ürümqi railway station, Weijiaquan, and Zhundong.
See also
* List of railways in China
The following is a list of conventional lines of rail transport in China. For the high-speed network, see List of high-speed railway lines in China.
North–south direction
Beijing–Harbin Corridor
* Jingqin railway; Beijing– Qinhuang ...
References
Railway lines in China
Rail transport in Xinjiang
Railway lines opened in 2009
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