China News Network Chengdu, June 12 (Du Cheng) At 9:58 on the 12th, with the first set of long rails on the self-Lu Lu line in the South Sichuan Intercity Railway steadily falling at the No. 2 bridge of Lu County Station, marking the The track-laying of the self-lulu line in the South Sichuan Intercity Railway led by the Tieto Group South Sichuan Intercity Railway Company was officially launched.

  On the morning of the same day, at the site of the first pavement of the southern Sichuan intercity railway track, a track laying machine over 500 meters long was lying on the roadbed like a long dragon. When the train reached the designated position, Xu Yixin, the full-time deputy director of the Sichuan Railway and Airport Construction Office and the deputy director of the Sichuan Development and Reform Commission, ordered a group of rails weighing more than 60 tons and 500 meters in length to be slowly sent from the front of the track laying machine. The track is rolling against the ballast and pulling the rail to extend forward slowly; placing the rail-lifting sleepers-transporting sleepers-connection and reinforcement, the construction workers are laying the rails in an orderly manner...

The site of the first paving of the southern Sichuan intercity railway track Photo courtesy of Sichuan Railway Investment Group

  According to reports, the main line is paved with 690,000 cubic meters of gravel track bed, 11 kilometers of ballastless bed, 268 kilometers of track laying; the new station line is 80,000 cubic meters of gravel track bed, the station line is 27 track kilometers, and the turnout is 119 group. The construction of the entire track will be completed in March next year.

  It is reported that the southern Sichuan Intercity Railway starts from the north of the Lu line in the Jiangbei Station of Neijiang City Chengyu Passenger Specialty, and then passes through Zigong City to the south and then east to Fushun and Lu County to Luzhou New Luzhou Station. The entire line uses cross-section seamless lines. The main line is paved with ballast track, the total length of the line is about 130 kilometers, the design speed is 250 kilometers per hour, and there are 7 stations in Jiangbei, Sanyuan, Baimaxi, Zigong East, Fushun, Luxian and Luzhou.

Rail shop site. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Railway Investment Group

  After the Zilu line of the South Sichuan Intercity Railway is completed and opened to traffic, Neijiang, Zigong and Luzhou will form a half-hour economic circle. After the completion of the whole line, Yibin will also integrate into the half-hour economic circle in southern Sichuan. At the same time, the four cities to Chengdu and Chongqing will form an hour economic circle, and Kunming, Xi'an and Guiyang will form a three-hour economic circle.

  "The first pavement of the track marks the clarion call for the southern Sichuan intercity railway to switch from offline to on-line, front-to-station and back-to-station engineering. It is also an oath to strive to complete the turnaround of infrastructure." Sichuan Railway Investment Group Sichuan South City Tang Yong, general manager of Interrail Corporation, said that in the southern Sichuan urban agglomeration, a steel dragon is appearing with a thick and thin hair. It not only opens up the Yunnan-Guizhou-Chongqing Expressway, but also speeds up the implementation of the national strategy of the twin-city economic circle in Chengdu-Chongqing region, and plays a role in the radiation of Chengdu and Chongqing to build an efficient and efficient transportation network. (Finish)