Line S1 () of the

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is a medium-low speed

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line. It is operated by the

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. The line was opened on 30 December 2017. It starts from in

Shijingshan District Shijingshan District () is an urban district of the city of Beijing. It lies to the west of the urban core of Beijing, and is part of the Western Hills area, bordering the districts of Haidian to the northeast and east, Fengtai to the south, an ...

and goes west towards in

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Description

The line uses a medium-low speed magnetic levitation technology which can give a top speed of . The actual operating speed of the line is either . The line is long, with elevated and underground. There are eight stations. Six-coach maglev trains were built by the

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, a subsidiary of

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. It is China's third commercial maglev train in operation. Line S1 is part of Beijing's attempts to tackle environmental problems caused by heavy car use, coal burning and fast urbanization by upgrading its urban rail systems. The Line S1 designation is a holdover from a defunct plan to build several

suburban railway Commuter rail or suburban rail is a passenger rail service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Commuter rail systems can use locomotive-hauled tr ...

lines in Beijing. Line S1 was envisioned to reuse the Jingmen Railway connecting station to Mentougou District. That plan was abandoned and the section between Pingguoyuan and Cishousi stations was replaced with Phase 3 of Line 6, and the other section was replaced with today's Maglev S1 Line.

History

Construction of the line began on April 20, 2015. The line was completed west of the

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on March 31, 2017, and the initial section from Jin'anqiao to Shichang opened on December 30, 2017. When the Line S1 originally opened in 2017, it was not connected to the rest of the subway network. With the opening of Line 6 Phase 3 on 30 December 2018, passengers can transfer to Line 6 at Jin'anqiao. In July 2021, a major bridge was completed, and the opening of the extension to Pingguoyuan planned for the end of the year. The extension opened on December 31, 2021.

Stations

Rolling Stock

Being the only maglev line, the rolling stock is incompatible with any other line in the system. The rolling stock was made by

. Trains consist of 6 cars, with the train as a whole being long and wide, each car having. The top speed of the trains is , with the operating speed being either .

References

External links

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