China News Service, Xiangyang, January 10th (Peng Zhengquan, Wang Zhengrui, Hu Chuanlin) The 71451 train loaded with 105 wagons and 10,589 tons of coal slowly entered the Haoji Railway Hubei Xiangzhou North Station on the morning of the 10th. For the first time, a special train of 10,000 tons of coal was launched from Mongolia, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia and other regions to Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi regions.

On the morning of January 10, the train slowly entered the Xiangzhou North Station of the Haoji Railway. Photo by Wang Zhengrui

  The train departed from Jingbian East Railway Station in Shaanxi Province and arrived at Xiangzhou North Railway Station in Hubei Province after running through Haoji Railway. After technical operations at Xiangzhou North Railway Station, it was decomposed into two 5,000-ton trains and bound for Jiangling, Hubei Province. Power Plant, Coal Port and Fenyi Power Plant in Jiangxi Province.

From now on, Haoji Railway will run 2 pairs of 10,000-ton heavy-duty trains every day.

The 10,000-ton coal train was organized at Xiangzhou North Station, Hubei Photo by Wang Zhengrui

  According to reports, since the opening of the Haoji Railway in September 2019, the number of train trips has continued to rise.

At the beginning of the opening, the average daily number of trains was less than 10, and by the end of 2021, it has increased to 60 pairs.

With the increase in the number of trains, the coal transportation volume of the Haoji Railway has also increased exponentially.

This year, with the launch of 10,000-ton heavy-haul trains, coal shipments are expected to reach 100 million tons.

  Gong Xiangqian, the head of Xiangzhou North Railway Station, introduced that Xiangzhou North Railway Station, as the only marshalling station of the Haoji Railway, is known as the heart of the Hao Railway.

In order to ensure that the operation of Haoji Railway is more efficient and efficient, the station continuously optimizes the transportation organization, and adopts measures such as encryption, increase in tons, speed increase, and time reduction to improve transportation efficiency, so as to ensure that the train arrives quickly, connects quickly, solves quickly, and leaves quickly.

  The Haoji Railway has a total length of 1813.5 kilometers and is the longest railway in the world built and opened at one time. It starts from Haolebaoji South Station in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia in the north, and passes through Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Jiangxi. Seven provinces (autonomous regions), and finally Ji'an Station of the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, with a planned annual transportation capacity of more than 200 million tons, is a new strategic channel for the country's "North-South Coal Transportation".

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