The Wuhan–Shiyan high-speed railway is a high-speed passenger-dedicated line (PDL) in

Hubei Hubei is a province of China, province in Central China. It has the List of Chinese provincial-level divisions by GDP, seventh-largest economy among Chinese provinces, the second-largest within Central China, and the third-largest among inland ...

, China. It opened on 29 November 2019, connecting the city of

Wuhan Wuhan; is the capital of Hubei, China. With a population of over eleven million, it is the most populous city in Hubei and the List of cities in China by population, eighth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine National cent ...

with the major automotive manufacturing centre of

Shiyan Shiyan ( zh, s=十堰 , p=Shíyàn) is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hubei, China, bordering Henan to the northeast, Chongqing to the southwest, and Shaanxi to the north and west. At the 2020 census, its population was 3,209,004 of who ...

in the northwest of the province. The long railway has a design speed of . The line starts from Hankou Station, a railhub with connections on: * Hefei–Wuhan passenger railway, * Shijiazhuang–Wuhan high-speed railway, * Wuhan–Yichang railway, * Beijing–Guangzhou railway, * Xiexindian–Gepu railway, * Macheng–Wuhan railway, and * Hankou–Danjiangkou railway. The line runs northwest from Wuhan via Xiaogan to Xiangyang (where it intersects another new high-speed line running from

Zhengzhou Zhengzhou is the capital of Henan, China. Located in northern Henan, it is one of the nine National central city, national central cities in China, and serves as the political, economic, technological, and educational center of the province. Th ...

southwest to

Wanzhou Wanzhou District ( zh, s=万州区 , t=萬州區 , p=Wànzhōu Qū) is Chongqing's second most populated urban core area on the upper reaches of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in China. It is currently governed as a district of Chongqing M ...

) to Shiyan. The line from Hankou to Xiaogan incorporates an existing inter-city railway, the Wuhan–Xiaogan intercity railway, which continues to provide intercity services using mainly C-class trains. The railway is part of the Wuhan to Xi’an railway, the connecting PDL from Shiyan to Xi’an is expected to be completed in 2023. The existing Wuhan–Xiaogan intercity railway has stations at: *Hankou *Houhu *Jinyintan *Panlongcheng (planned but not yet constructed) *Tianhe Airport *Tianhejie *Minji *Maochen *Huaiyin *Xiaogan Dong (East) The new section of the railway runs from Xiaogan Dong (East) to Shiyan Dong (East) and has intermediate stations at: *Yunmeng Dong (East), *Anluxi, *Suizhou Nan (South), *Suixian, *Zaoyang, *Xiangyang Dong (East), *Guchen Bei (North), *Danjiangkou, *Wudangshan Xi (West), These stations are served by mainly G-class trains, some of which also call at Tianhe Airport. In December 2019 there were 11 trains per day in each direction along the line, the fastest time between the terminals is now 1 hour 57 minutes (for example trains G6817 and G6818) the slowest direct train on the line takes 2 hour and 57 minutes and stops at most stations (train G6816).

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