China News Service, Yichang, February 14th: The first Spring Festival transportation of the "post-00s" train "Ferryman"

　　Author Dong Xiaobin Su Wenrui Wang Xiao

　　February 13th is the fourth day of the first lunar month. At the hump shunting yard of Zhijiang Station in Hubei Province, the sound of train wheels and rail speed reducers was heard one after another. Groups of trains were under the control of a group of young workers born in the 2000s. , is accurately sent to the designated stock channel.

The "post-00s" youth worker connector checked and decoded the truck number. Photo by Su Wenrui

　　During the Spring Festival this year, a group of young workers born in 2000 at Zhijiang Railway Station in the Yichang depot of Wuhan Bureau Group Company stayed at their posts and coordinated closely to assemble and dismantle trains traveling from south to north, silently guarding the safety and smooth flow of railway transportation. They were vividly remembered Called the train "ferryman".

　　Zhijiang Station is a second-class section station on the Jiao-Liu Railway. It has a station storage capacity of 28 tracks, allowing this station to undertake a large number of train de-marshalling tasks. On average, it receives and departs more than 280 trains and de-marshalls more than 40 trains every day. , ensuring the bulk cargo transportation needs of major power plants and fertilizer production enterprises in southwestern Hubei.

　　"4735218, the vehicle number is correct." Li Genquan, a young worker standing on the top of the hump, checked the next hook again to decode the truck number, aimed at the opportunity, and neatly lifted the hook, and then a group of trains slipped along the line into the predetermined lane. And it is properly connected to the train parked in the track with the same destination.

　　At the other end of the shunting yard, Yan Zhaoyang, the Youth Workers' Coordinator, sat tightly on the platform of the front section of the advancing train, staring at the road ahead, and from time to time he used the intercom to call out "Ten cars, five cars, three cars" Signal instructions.

　　"Just like ferrymen, what we ferry are railway freight cars, ensuring that the people and enterprises and institutions can spend the Spring Festival with peace of mind." Like Li Genquan, Yan Zhaoyang is also a post-2000 connector who has just worked in the railway for one year. This year The Spring Festival Transport is the first Spring Festival Transport for them after they were assigned to work alone.

　　Yan Zhaoyang introduced that during the Spring Festival, goods from all over the country are still moving at high speed on railway lines. They have to run back and forth at the Shili marshalling yard day and night to remove tubes, hooks, exhaust and prevent slipping of trains... In one shift, they Nearly 15 kilometers to walk.

"Post-2000" young railway workers stayed on the job during the Spring Festival. Photo by Su Wenrui

　　At about 11 o'clock in the morning, a completed thermal coal train stopped at Lane 5, ready for departure. As the second batch of shunting operation plans were issued, the roar of locomotives in the track increased again, and a group of young shunting workers born in the 2000s were constantly shuttled around the station...

　　"The Spring Festival is coming to an end, and our work will be even busier." Yan Zhaoyang said that they are busy ensuring smooth transportation during the Spring Festival. Facing the upcoming supply and transportation of fertilizers, they will strengthen communication and coordination to ensure timely delivery of materials. (over)