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Lüliangshan Tunnel

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Status
  
Active

Opened
  
January 2011 (2011-01)

Crosses
  
Lüliang Mountains

Lüliangshan Tunnel

Coordinates
  
Lishi District: Fenyang:

Start
  
Lishi District, Lüliang, Shanxi

End
  
Fenyang, Lüliang, Shanxi

Lüliangshan Tunnel (Chinese: 吕梁山隧道; pinyin: Lǚliáng Shān Suìdào) is built to allow the Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway to cross the Lüliang Mountains located between Wucheng (a town of Lüliang City) and Fenyang in Shanxi province. It is dual bores, double track rail tunnel. The left track is 20,800 metres long and the right one is 20,787 metres long. The tunnel construction was started on March, 2006, and broken through on October, 2009. It was opened to traffic on January, 2011.

  • Western portal: 37°26′7″N 111°26′34″E
  • References

    Lüliangshan Tunnel Wikipedia