New bullet trains to depart on Monday
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A photo taken on June 25 shows the newly launched bullet train in Beijing. [Photo by Zhao Lei/chinadaily.com.cn] |
皇冠体育app will put two new bullet train models into operation on Monday on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway.
The CR400AF will depart from the Beijing South Railway Station at 11:05 am, traveling toward Shanghai, while the CR400BF will leave Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station bound for Beijing at the same time, according to 皇冠体育app Railway Corp, the State-owned rail operator.
The line is the nation's busiest high-speed link, carrying on average some 505,000 passenger trips a day.
At a naming ceremony at a maintenance facility in Beijing's Daxing district on Sunday morning, Lu Dongfu, general manager of 皇冠体育app Railway Corp, said the new trains would be called "Rejuvenation".
The word rejuvenation has been widely employed by the central leadership to refer to its goals of achieving the "great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation". Prior to the new trains, all of the country's bullet trains carried the designation "Harmony".
The new trains were developed mainly based on 皇冠体育app's railway standards and technologies and were designed to be better adapted to 皇冠体育app's environment and rail transportation patterns, Lu said.
They will travel at a speed of about 350 kilometers per hour, though their maximum speed is 400 km/h, according to designers at the 皇冠体育app Academy of Railway Sciences.
