The Xi'an–Chongqing high speed railway is an under construction

high-speed railway High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of rail transport network utilising trains that run significantly faster than those of traditional rail, using an integrated system of specialised rolling stock and dedicated railway track, tracks. While there is ...

line in China. It is long and has a design speed of . It will be part of the Baotou (Yinchuan)–Hainan corridor.

History

Work on the section between Xi'an and Ankang began on 29 June 2021. It is expected to be completed by June 2026. Construction of the remaining section in Shaanxi Province south to the Shaanxi-Sichuan border started on 30 November 2022 and a few days later, on 2 December 2022, the Dazhou section in Sichuan Province officially started construction. The Dezhou section is scheduled to be complete by 2028. The remaining Sichuan section to Chongqing via Guang'an started construction in 17 February 2023. On 13 August 2023 the first foundation for a viaduct pier on the Chongqing section of the Xi'an–Chongqing high speed railway was poured.

Main line

Branch line

The Branch line runs from Fankuai railway station in

Xuanhan County Xuanhan County () is a county in the northeast of Sichuan, Sichuan Province, China, bordering Chongqing to the east. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Dazhou. According to recent population census, Xuanhan county ha ...

Sichuan Province Sichuan is a Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the south. Its capita ...

to Wanzhou North railway station in

Wanzhou District 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 ...

Chongqing ChongqingPostal Romanization, Previously romanized as Chungking ();. is a direct-administered municipality in Southwestern China. Chongqing is one of the four direct-administered municipalities under the State Council of the People's Republi ...

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