Guangzhou to Hong Kong only 40 minutes by the end of Canton Railway

The Guangdong section of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway is scheduled to be opened to traffic by the end of this year, 4 years earlier. (Photo Source: Hong Kong Gazette) Xinhua Beijing, March 3, according to the Hong Kong "Big Bulletin" reported that the extensive attention of the Guangdong-Shenzhen high-speed railway project recently rapid progress.　　Guangdong Province Railway Construction Investment Group, said recently, the current Guangdong section of the line works have been completed, all the bridge and tunnel construction into the final stage, and the original plan from Guangzhou to Shenzhen to the one-way track from Guangzhou, Shenzhen to the middle of the Lions tunnel track track, to ensure that the end of this year on schedule. Known as the "Hong Kong and Guangdong New Corridor" of the canton-Shenzhen high-speed railway, from the north of Panyu Shek Pik, Guangzhou South Railway station, through Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen Three cities, from the underground through the Shenzhen-Hong Kong border, arrived at the West Kowloon Station, the length of 142 kilometers, of which, the total investment of 16.7 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) Guangdong paragraph as a phase of the project More than 80% of the total investment has been completed so far.　　At present, the Guangdong section of the line project has been completed, the bridge construction completed nearly 97% of the design, the tunnel construction completed 96%, and in addition to the Lion Ocean tunnel, the whole of the entire front of the project has entered the closure stage.　　Guangdong Province Iron Construction Investment Group, known as "China's most difficult century tunnel", the length of more than million meters lion ocean tunnel, has completed the project more than 1.1 billion investment in more than 90%, is expected in the first half of this year before the full line. To further accelerate the overall project progress, the Ministry of Railways has requested that the planned road tracks from Guangzhou to Shenzhen be changed from Guangzhou and Shenzhen to the middle Lion Ocean tunnel, in which the key control project connecting Guangzhou South Railway station Fanyu District Pingshan Chung section has completed the track board laying, marking the entry of the Guangdong section of the project into the "ballastless track".　　"The entire construction phase, which is 6 months ahead of schedule, will ensure the goal of opening to traffic by the end of this year," he said. It is reported that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Shenzhen high-speed railway all adopted by the mainland's latest independent research and development of Crtsⅰ-type slab ballastless track, replace the traditional railway Dao and sleepers to ensure that this high grade dual electrified railway design speed target value is 350 kilometers per hour in the lower part of the line, and the online portion is more than 250 kilometers per hour, It will take only more than 20 minutes from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, and only 16 minutes to West Kowloon, which means that from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, the present 100 minutes would be substantially reduced to 40 minutes.