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Annex to L/D/95
dated July 78
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Electrification of Chinese Railways
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Canton to Shum Chun
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a. As far as we are aware there are no plans to electrify the rail link from Canton to Shum Chun in the immediate future. However, this should not be a stumbling block to through passenger train movement between Hong Kong and Canton. A change of locomotive would be necessary at the border station and the carriages would have to be fitted for steam as well as electric heating. This is common practice where electric and diesil power systems are intermingled.
Electrification
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The Chinese rail network has, at present, two trunk lines which are electrified. These are Cheng Tu to Pao Chi (676 km) and Yang Ping Kuan (à junction on the Pao Chi line) to An Kang (356 km).
b. We have unconfirmed reports that the lines between T'ai Yuan, Ta Tung and Pao T'ou and between Peking and Chang Chia K'ou are also electrified.
C. Three other lines are in the process of being upgraded and electrified. These are between Pao Chi, in Shensi Province, and Lanchow, in Kansu Province, between Shinchiachuang (Hopei) and Tai Yuan (Shansi) and between Hsiangfan (Hupeh) and Chungking (Szechwan). d. Construction work has also commenced on a new line from Chunking to An Kang and Tan Chiang and it is believed that this will probably be electrified.
e. The system in use is the 25 Kv single phase 50 cycle per second with overhead conductors. Locomotives are of French, East German
and Chinese design and of Chinese construction.
f.
The Minister for Railways announced in April 1978 a Five Year Development Plan 1980/85 which proposes an electrification programme for main lines radiating from Peking which would result in some 4960 km of track being electrified by the end of the plan.
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