Another high-speed railway in Hubei is expected to start construction in October this year

Jimu news reporter Pan Xiheng

Intern Xiang Yuchen Yang Ruoxi

Today’s reporter learned that the high-speed railway from Xiangyang, Hubei to Jingmen, has entered the bidding process for the general contracting of the project. The 116-kilometer high-speed railway is expected to start construction at the end of October this year, with a planned construction period of 42 months , is expected to be completed by the end of April 2026.

According to the joint reply of China National Railway Group and Hubei Provincial People's Government, Xiangyang -Jingmen high-speed railway is an important part of Hunan Passage in the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network.

Line map (Source: Hubei Hanshi Intercity Railway Co., Ltd.)

Xiangjing High-speed Railway has a total length of 116.8 kilometers and a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. There are 4 stations: Xiangyang East, Yicheng North, Shuanghe West, and Jingmen West. Among them, Xiangyang East is an existing station, Yicheng North and Shuanghe West (reserved passenger transport conditions) are new stations, and Jingmen West is a station under construction. The

reporter combed and found that the main line of the project has 58 bridges with a length of 77.45 kilometers, and 19 tunnels with a length of 20.88 kilometers. The bridge-to-tunnel ratio is about 84.2%. The newly built station building reaches 29,000 square meters, of which Jingmen West Station has 5 sets of 13 lines, and is a common station for Wuyi high-speed railway, Xiangjing high-speed railway and Jingjing high-speed railway 3.

Although the Xiangjing high-speed railway is only 116 kilometers long, it is an important construction of the high-speed railway line in the north-south direction of Hubei. The project connects Zhengyu high-speed railway , Wuxi high-speed railway in the north, and Jingjing high-speed railway and Yanjiang high-speed railway under construction in the south. Transport infrastructure.

Route map

Jimu news reporter found through the 12306 client query that there are currently normal-speed trains running between Xiangyang and Jingmen, passing through the Jiaoliu line. The number of trains is mainly K trains and a small number of T trains. about half an hour. At present, there are 5 trains running in the direction of Xiangjing every day. There are slightly more trains in the direction of Jingxiang, with 8 trains.

After the completion of the Xiangjing high-speed railway, it will further improve the skeleton network of the high-speed railway in Hubei, accelerate the construction of the north-south high-speed railway channel in the central and western regions of Hubei, and realize the one-hour access to the two provincial sub-center cities, better meet the convenient travel needs of the people along the line, and drive the regional economy Social development.

The Hunan high-speed railway runs from Hohhot East Station to Nanning East Station , with a total length of about 2,300 kilometers. Running north-south, it is one of the main line railways in the central and western regions of China, passing through Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi and other provinces along the line. It will enter Hubei from Dengzhou East Station in Henan, pass through Xiangyang East Station , Jingmen West Station, Yichang North Station , and enter Changde Station in Hunan. The section from Jingmen to Yichang is on the same line as the high-speed railway along the Yangtze River.

The 12th Party Congress of Hubei Province held in June this year clearly stated that in the next five years, Hubei will speed up the construction of the Wuhan-Yichang section of the high-speed railway along the Yangtze River, and the Xiangyang-Jingmen-Yichang section of the Hunan high-speed railway, forming a provincial high-speed railway loop.

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