Track laying begins in Taicang section of Jiangsu inter-city railway along the south of the Yangtze River: the designed speed is 350 kilometers per hour.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the clue delivery that you can change your name again! CTOnews.com, October 23 (Xinhua) recently, with a pair of 500m long rails falling smoothly on the ballastless track slab of the Qiputang Bridge, the Taicang section of the inter-city railway along the Yangtze River in the south of Jiangsu Province began laying tracks, according to the Yangtze River Delta Railway. The intercity railway has taken another solid step towards opening to traffic.

Rail laying is the last process of the project in front of the railway station. at present, the track laying of the inter-city railway along the south of the Yangtze River is advancing at a speed of 6 kilometers per day, and track laying in Taicang section is expected to be completed by the end of this month.

The track laying construction of the whole line of the south inter-city railway along the Yangtze River uses the domestic advanced multi-line rail laying machine and the traditional rail laying machine to carry out the joint operation, and the long rail laying work of the uplink and downlink lines is carried out synchronously, and the efficiency is greatly improved than before.

CTOnews.com learned that the south inter-city railway along the Yangtze River is an important part of the Yangtze River Delta railway network, with a designed speed of 350km per hour and a total length of 278.53 km. Construction will begin in October 2018. The route starts from Nanjing South Railway Station in the west, through Nanjing Jiangning District, Qinhuai District, Zhenjiang Jurong City, Changzhou Jintan, Wujin, Jingkai District, Wuxi Jiangyin City, Suzhou Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Taicang City, and finally to Taicang Station. There are 8 stations in Nanjing South, Jurong, Jintan, Wujin, Jiangyin, Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Taicang, of which Nanjing South Station is the existing station.