The Xiaoshan–Ningbo railway or Xiaoyong railway (), is a

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between

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and

Ningbo Ningbo (; Ningbonese: ''gnin² poq⁷'' , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly romanized as Ningpo, is a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises 6 urban districts, 2 sate ...

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. Its name in Chinese, the Xiaoyong Line, is named after the railway's two terminal stations,

Xiaoshan Xiaoshan is one of ten urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, East China. Xiaoshan was formerly a city in its own right, separated by the Qiantang River from Hangzhou proper, but the municipal ...

, a suburban district of Hangzhou on the southern bank of Qiantang River, and Ningbo, whose Chinese character abbreviation is ''yong''. The line is long and was originally built in three parts in 1912, 1914 and 1936; rebuilt in 1959, then electrified in 2009. Cities along route include

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of Hangzhou,

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and Ningbo, all in

. The

Hangzhou–Ningbo high-speed railway The Hangzhou–Ningbo high-speed railway, or Hangyong high-speed railway () or Hang-Yong Passenger Dedicated Railway) is a China Railway High-speed line between the major cities of Hangzhou and Ningbo in Zhejiang province. It spans approxima ...

runs parallel to the line. The section between

and

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is proposed to be quadruple-tracked.

Line history

The oldest section on the Xiaoyong railway is the section between Ningbo and Cicheng, which opened in December 1912. The Ningbo to Cao'e section, in length, followed in June 1914, and the Xiaoshan to Cao'e section was completed in October 1936.(Chinese
"百年萧甬话今昔"
2010-07-19 During the

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in 1938, the railway line was dismantled to prevent its use by the invading Japanese. Following the end of

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, the railroad

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was converted into a highway. In 1953, the railway was rebuilt in parts and completed in 1959 with the assistance of

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engineers. Between 2002 and 2009, the line was electrified. In 2013, the parallel

opens, shifting significant amounts of intercity passenger traffic away from the Xiaoyong Railway and enabling railway to carry more freight and local passenger traffic. Since 2017, a number a commuter railway services started operating on segments of the line, such as Line S1

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operating in

and

Shaoxing Tourism New Transit railway Shaoxing Urban Rail Line ( zh, 绍兴城际线), also known as Shaoxing Tourism New Transit railway ( zh, 绍兴风情旅游新干线) or Line S1, is a commuter rail service. It runs from Hangzhou South railway station in Xiaoshan District, Hang ...

operating in

. In 2018, China's first double-stack container trains running under

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started operation on Xiaoyong railway between Gaobu and the

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Rail junctions

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, Xuancheng–Hangzhou railway *

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References

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Line history

Rail junctions

See also

References