Dongguan–Huizhou Intercity Railway

Dongguan-Huizhou Intercity Railway
Overview
Native name	莞惠城际轨道交通
Type	High-speed rail
Status	Under Construction
Locale	People's Republic of China
Termini	Wanghong Huizhou
Stations	17
Operation
Operator(s)	China Railway High-speed
Technical
Line length	96.96 km (60 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	50Hz 25,000V
Operating speed	200 km/h (124 mph)

Dongguan-Huizhou ICR route map
Legend
Foshan-Dongguan Intercity Railway Guangzhou–Dongguan–Shenzhen Intercity Railway Wanghong Depot Daojiao Xincheng Zhongxin Dongcheng South Liaobu Songshanhu North Dalang Changping Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway Changping East Xiegang Lilin Chenjiang Huihuan Xinkeyun South Xihu (West Lake) Dong River Shizhengfu (City Hall) Huizhou Maintenance Depot Guanghui Intercity Railway

Dongguan–Huizhou Intercity Railway, also known as the Guanhui Intercity Railway or Guanhui City Railway, is a high-speed railway within Guangdong province, China. It runs between the cities of Dongguan and Huizhou in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Part of a larger radiating intercity rail transit network, called Pearl River Delta Rapid Transit, across the PRD region, directly connecting with the Guangzhou–Dongguan–Shenzhen Intercity Railway and the planned Foshan-Dongguan Intercity Railway. Route length is 96.96 kilometers, with an estimated construction budget of 25.3 billion RMB. The construction period is planned to take three and a half years.^[1] 3 renovated and 14 new stations are being built along the route. It has been built with a design speed of 200 kilometres per hour.

History

• May 8, 2009 - Construction in Changping, Dongguan officially started, with an original expectation to be opened for traffic by 2013.^[2]
• June 7, 2013 - Construction is completed and test runs are due to begin in 2014 with whole project opened by the end of 2015.^[3]

Scandal

Songshan station jerry incident a man surnamed Liu broke the construction side of the Songshan Lake station to cut corners, but the construction company building the site pay a prescription charge of Mr. Yang Zhenggang Songshanhu report indicates that this is malicious, and communicate the results to identify after the fact.^[4]

Route

Guanhui Intercity Railway is an East-West railway that starts in the Changzhou area of Dongguan at Wanghong Railway Station, this will be a major interchange with the Guangzhou–Dongguan–Shenzhen Intercity Railway and the planned Foshan-Dongguan Intercity Railway, plus Dongguang Metro's Line 1. It then moves westward through the Dongguan regions of Daojiao, then Nancheng, Dongcheng, Liaobu, Songshan Lake, Dalang, Changping and Xiegang. Crossing into Huizhou's Huicheng District it then passes through Lilin, Chenjiang and Huihuan before arriving at Huizhou Railway Station. Total length of the route is 99.448 km, 67.460 km in Dongguan and 31.988 km in Huizhou. Elevated sections of track total 55.831 km, with 6.586 km at ground level and 35.391 km being underground.

Station

Originally approved to build 16 stations, the Huizhou Municipal Railway Construction Investment Group Co. Ltd and the Guangzhou Railway Company agreed to build an additional station at Huizhou's West Lake.^[5]

Dongguan

• Wanghong (starting point, but also interchange GZ-DG-SZ ICR and Foshan-Dongguan ICR, plus Dongguang Metro's Line 1
• Daojiao
• Xincheng Zhongxin
• Dongcheng South
• Liaobu
• Songshanhu North
• Dalang
• Changping
• Changping East
• Xiegang

Nancheng, Dongcheng and Songshan railway stations originally appeared in the planning of this railway, due to reasons of land restrictions along the route it had to be slightly modified and these stations were deleted from the plans.

Huizhou

• Lilin
• Chenjiang
• Huihuan
• Xinkeyun South (old plan as "HuiCheng Station")
• Xihu (West Lake)
• Shizhengfu (City Hall) (old plan as "Huizhou Avenue Station")
• Huizhou (terminus of the old plan as "Huizhou North Station")

References

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