Type High-speed rail Stations 26 Locale China | Status Under Construction Line length 880 km (547 mi) Terminis Nanchang, Shenzhen | |
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Operator(s) China Railway High-speed Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) | ||
The Shenzhen-Nanchang High-Speed Railway is a high-speed railway under construction between Shenzhen in Guangdong province and Nanchang in Jiangxi province in China. This will be a more direct high speed route, which currently requires travelling via Changsha using the Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway and Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway.
Construction work began on December 20, 2014, between Nanchang and Ji'an. The 880-kilometre (550 mi) railway is expected to take five years to complete, in two sections, the 422 kilometres (262 mi) Nanchang–Ganzhou High-Speed Railway from Nanchang to Ganzhou and the Ganzhou–Shenzhen High-Speed Railway 458 kilometres (285 mi) from Shenzhen to Ganzhou. The design speed for the northern section will be 350 km/h (217 mph) between Nanchang and Ganzhou and 250 km/h (155 mph) from there south to Shenzhen.
Once completed it is expected to reduce travel times for Nanchang to Ganzhou from five hours to two hours. From Nanchang to Shenzhen, the trip will take a little under four hours, currently eight hours, forty-three minutes.
It will also be connected, at the southern end of the line, with the Xiamen–Shenzhen Railway to allow access to coastal Fujian cities.