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China Railways DF9
The DF9 (Chinese: 东风9) was the first Chinese semi-high-speed diesel locomotive with a top speed of , which was successfully developed by Qishuyan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works in 1990. As part of China's Eighth Five-Year Plan scientific and technological project, the DF9 diesel locomotive adopts wheel-to-hollow shaft traction motor full suspension drive system, high-flexibility second-series round springs, lightweight body and other technologies. Although the only two DF9s produced were scrapped in 2011, it laid the foundation for the development of DF11 diesel locomotives. History Background and development China Railway saw an increase in passenger traffic volumes on its trunk routes by the 1990s. It was decided to upgrade the main lines within the radius from Beijing to be upgraded to operation. To achieve the projected 15 hour journey time, a high-speed diesel locomotive was to be developed. From May to June 1987, bids were submitted by , Dalian Locomot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wuchang Railway Station
Wuchang railway station is a major railway station on the Beijing–Guangzhou railway, the Wuhan–Jiujiang railway and the Hankou–Danjiangkou railway, located on the east side of Zhongshan Road in Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei, China. Founded as the Tongxiangmen railway station (通湘门站) in 1916, the station was moved several times and settled in the current location in 1957. It is the largest transportation center in Wuhan with daily traffic of 77,000 passengers and 20,000 packages as of 2000, and a record of 80,000 passengers per day during the Chunyun period as of 2008. Gallery File:201906_Entrance_of_Wuchang_Station.jpg, Main entrance File:201906_Main_Ticket_Office_of_Wuchang_Station.jpg, Ticket office File:201906_2F_Waiting_Room_of_Wuchang_Station.jpg, Arrivals lounge File:201906_Flyover_of_Wuchang_Station.jpg, Flyover File:201906_Main_Tracks_of_Wuchang_Station.jpg, Platforms Wuhan Metro Wuchang Railway Station (), is a transfer station of Line 4 and L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Locomotives Introduced In 1990
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Co′Co′ Locomotives
Co-Co is the wheel arrangement for Diesel locomotive, diesel and electric locomotives with two six-wheeled bogies with all axles powered, with a separate traction motor per axle. The equivalent UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, UIC classification (Europe) for this arrangement is Co′Co′, or C-C for AAR wheel arrangement#C-C, AAR (North America). Use Co-Cos are most suited to freight work as the extra wheels give them good Traction (engineering), traction. They are also popular because the greater number of axles results in a lower axle load to the track. History The first mainline diesel-electric locomotives were of Bo-Bo arrangement. As they grew in power and weight, from 1937 the EMD E-units used an A1A-A1A layout with six axles to reduce axle load. After WWII, the British London, Midland and Scottish Railway, LMS ordered British Rail Class D16/1, two prototype locomotives with some of the first Co-Co arrangements. The first C-C design recorded w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inventory, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou–Shenzhen Railway
Guangshen railway or Guangzhou–Shenzhen railway ( zh, s=广深铁路 or 广深线), historically known as the Chinese section of the Kowloon–Canton railway ( zh, s=广九铁路华段) in 1911–1949, is a railway in Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China, between Guangzhou and Shenzhen. It is operated by Guangshen Railway Co., Ltd., a publicly traded company. With a length of , it was the first railway in the People's Republic of China to reach the speed of in some sections, though it is limited to about during commercial operation. Now it has four tracks between Guangzhou East and Shenzhen railway station. Line 1 and 2 are up-direction and down-direction (currently restricted to in operation) passenger lines for CRH EMU respectively, and Lines 3 and 4 are up-direction and down-direction (currently restricted to in operation) mixed passenger and freight line respectively. In order to reduce the interference to passenger trains in the daytime from l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Railways DF8
The DF8 () is a type of diesel-electric locomotive used by China Railway in the People's Republic of China. It was in production from 1984 until mid-1990s, with mass production starting in 1989. The revised DF8B is still in production today. DF8 are almost exclusively used for freight services. Models DF8 The first generation DF8 is powered by the original 16V280ZJ engine, manufactured by Qishuyan Locomotive and Rolling Stock Works. 141 locomotives are produced from 1989 to 1997. The prototype engine DF8-0001&0002 features different hull design with the batch-produced engines. 41 engines (0001-0041, including 2 prototype engines) assigned to South Wuchang Locomotive Depot, China Railway Wuhan Group, 100 engines assigned to Mudanjiang Locomotive Depot, China Railway Harbin Group. DF8B The second generation, DF8B, is powered by an updated 16V280ZJA engine with , whose production started in 1997. Qishuyan manufactured 0 series, while Ziyang Locomotive Works manufactured 5000 serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Locomotives In China
This is a list of current and retired locomotives in the People's Republic of China. Steam locomotives The first steam locomotive in China is thought to be a gauge 0-4-0T engine used on the Shanghai-Wusong railway. Towards the end of the 19th century concessions obtained from the Qing dynasty enabled foreign powers (Germany, Russia, France and Great Britain) to build railways in China, and they introduced a variety of foreign-built machines. Later Japan gained control over Manchuria as a result of the Treaty of Portsmouth following the Russo-Japanese War and created the South Manchuria Railway from their acquisitions - resulting in Japanese as well as American locomotives being imported into the north-east of China. After the end of the Second World War China came back under indigenous rule. Locomotives were imported from both the United States and Russia as well as other Communist bloc countries. Production of steam locomotives continued into the late 20th century. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guangzhou Locomotive Depot
Guangzhou, previously romanized as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong Provinces of China, province in South China, southern China. Located on the Pearl River about northwest of Hong Kong and north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road. The port of Guangzhou serves as a transportation hub for China's fourth largest city and surrounding areas, including Hong Kong. Guangzhou was captured by the United Kingdom, British during the First Opium War and no longer enjoyed a monopoly after the war; consequently it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major entrepôt. Following the Second Battle of Chuenpi in 1841, the Treaty of Nanking was signed between Robert Peel, Sir Robert Peel on behalf of Queen Victoria and Lin Zexu on behalf of Daoguang Emperor, Emperor Xuanzong and ceded British Hong Kong, Hong Kong to the United Kingdom on 26 January 1841 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Railways DF9 Guangzhou 20070223
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Beijing Ring Railway
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as China's List of cities in China by population, second largest city by urban area after Shanghai. It is located in North China, Northern China, and is governed as a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality under the direct administration of the Government of the People's Republic of China, State Council with List of administrative divisions of Beijing, 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts.Figures based on 2006 statistics published in 2007 National Statistical Yearbook of China and available online at archive. Retrieved 21 April 2009. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji, Jing-Jin-Ji cluster. Beijing is a global city and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
