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30 March 2016 (8 years ago) (2016-03-30) (East section) 28 December 2017 (6 years ago) (2017-12-28) (West section) 26 May 2024 (6 months ago) (2024-05-26) (Guangzhou section)
Guangzhou–Huizhou intercity railway, also known as the Guanghui intercity railway, is a regional railway within Guangdong province, China. It runs between the cities of Guangzhou and Huizhou in the Pearl River Delta (PRD). Part of a larger radiating intercity rail transit network, called Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region intercity railway, across the PRD region, directly connecting with the Guangzhou–Shenzhen intercity railway. Route length is 139.8 kilometres (86.9 mi), with an estimated construction budget of 25.3 billion RMB. The construction period was planned to take three and a half years, actual construction started in May 2009 and completed in June 2013, but the line wasn't opened until 2016. 3 renovated and 14 new stations were built along the route. It has been built with a design speed of 200 kilometres per hour (124 mph). The Xiaojinkou–Changping East section started operations on 30 March 2016. The Dongguan West–Panyu section opened on May 26, 2024.
History
8 May 2009 – Construction in Changping, Dongguan officially started, with an original expectation to be opened for traffic by 2013.
7 June 2013 – Construction is completed and test runs are due to begin in 2014 with whole project opened by the end of 2015.
30 March 2016 – Xiaojinkou–Changping East section started operations.
28 December 2017 – Changping East–Daojiao started operations.
15 December 2019 – Daojiao–Dongguan West started operations.
1 November 2023 – Guangdong Intercity got operation license of Guanghui intercity railway.
26 May 2024 – Dongguan West–Panyu started operations.
Scandal
Songshan station jerry incident
A man surnamed Liu broke the construction side of the Songshanhu North station to cut corners, but the construction company building the site pay a prescription charge of Mr. Yang Zhenggang Songshanhu report indicates that this is malicious, and communicate the results to identify after the fact.
Originally approved to build 16 stations, the Huizhou Municipal Railway Construction Investment Group Co. Ltd and the Guangzhou Railway Company agreed to build an additional station at Huizhou's West Lake.
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