The latest station plan for the Western Extension High-speed Railway
It is conducive to enhancing the hub status of Fuping South Railway Station
The Tongchuan-Yan'an section of the Western Extension High-speed Railway has entered a construction phase in full swing, and a number of bridges and tunnels have been fully started. In contrast, the progress of the Xi'an to Tongchuan section worries the people of Fuping. As the "card neck" section of the whole line, its starting time will affect the time node of the opening of the whole line.
According to the Provincial Development and Reform Commission on October 20 in its official website "government-people interaction" column replied to netizens message: the western extension of the high-speed rail Xi'an to Tongchuan section is adjusting the design, including the relevant station settings, according to the current research results, it is planned to be promoted according to the plan of Gaoling station and Liyang line, the specific according to the final approval of the project.
It can be seen that the western copper section of the western extension of the high-speed railway is still carrying out the work of program adjustment and environmental impact assessment report procedures, the only clear thing is that Gaoling will resume the station, and the previously proposed Liyang station has been adjusted to the line office in the latest planning, and there will be no more stations.
This reply means that the west copper section has been adjusted again. There is no further information disclosure on the Gaoling station, and more relevant information is pending in the EIA report.
This adjustment restored the Gaoling Station, which was approved for establishment once and cancelled for the second time, and adjusted Liyang Station to an EMU line station. Generally speaking, the line has only the main line, no wiring, generally does not handle passenger and freight business, only handles the work of receiving and dispatching trains, and is often set up in the location of divergent turnouts in the interval. The adjustment of Liyang to the line may be related to the intercity of West Korea and the intercity of Yanliang to the airport.
The Xi'an to Tongchuan section will be re-started according to this latest line plan. According to the plan of Liyang Station and Fuping South Station, which are currently in progress, it is expected that all procedures and construction can be completed in the first half of 2022. According to the latest plans for Gaoling Station, Liyang Railway Station and Fuping South Railway Station, it is possible to postpone the completion of all formalities and construction until the end of 2022. In this way, the opening time of the western extension of the high-speed railway may be postponed from the end of 2025 to 2026.
At present, the Tongchuan to Yan'an section of the project Yijun Tunnel, New Yan'an Tunnel, Taikang Tunnel and other bridge and tunnel projects have been fully started, and the planned completion date is the end of October 2025. At present, the preliminary procedures such as pre-examination of land use, planning site selection, and social stability assessment required for the adjustment and feasibility study report of the Western Extension High-speed Railway are still being processed. The west copper section is located in the plain area, there are few large bridge and tunnel projects, the construction period is relatively fast, if the construction is grasped, it may be expected to be completed and opened simultaneously with the Yan'an section of Tongchuan at the end of 2025.
The announcement of the latest station plan for the Western Extension High-speed Railway is generally good for Fuping and is conducive to strengthening the hub status of Fuping South Railway Station.
The last time the construction plan was adjusted, the line positions of Fuping South Railway Station and Fuping Section remained unchanged. At the same time as the last line adjustment of the Western Extension High-speed Railway "canceled Gaoling Station and set up Fuping South Station and Liyang Station", the original Fuping East Station of the West Korea Intercity Was cancelled, and the Fuping South Station was the actual starting point of the West Korean Intercity (the Xi'an-Fuping section of the West Korean Intercity was originally in line with the West Extension High-speed Railway, and a new line was built in the long term to extend to Xi'an South Railway Station and connect Xi'an North Railway Station, Xi'an Station and Xi'an East Railway Station through the liaison line), and the Liyang Station located in the south of Yanliang City was adjusted to the EMU line office, and did not handle passenger and freight business. Fuping County and Yanliang District must use Fuping South Station located in the middle of the two cities, Xi'an Metro S21 Municipal Express, Fuyan Plate L13 and L14 Bureau Pre-line and local buses to solve public transportation problems and facilitate the travel of the people in Fuyan and Yanliang; the original plan for the intercity construction of Yanliang-Airport was originally planned to lead from Liyang Station to the new line from Sanyuan to the airport, which will become a common line north of Gaoling Station and the west extension of the high-speed railway, and from Gaoling Station to the new line from Sanyuan to the airport, but due to the cancellation of Liyang Station, The actual operation section of the original Yanji Intercity in the future should be Fuping South - Gaoling - Sanyuan - Airport, so it is said that the hub status of Fuping South Station has been enhanced.
Multi-party information disclosure, Pucheng Haloyang Lake Airport will be built as the second airport in Xi'an, the function is positioned as freight-oriented, passenger transport as a supplement, the West Korean intercity railway Haloyang Lake - Fuping South - Gaoling - Xi'an operating section will inevitably increase the density of trains, the Xi'an Metro S21 Urban Express will also extend eastward to Haloyang Lake Airport, which is a favorable factor for convenient Fuping transportation and enhancing the hub status of Fuping South Railway Station.
Tongchuan 14th Five-Year Plan reported to Fuping via Zhaojin to Nanliang intercity railway, if approved, the line may lead from Fuping South Station, north through Caocun to Tongchuan; the long-term planning of Pucheng to Tongchuan intercity railway through Caocun and Zhuangli to Tongchuan. According to the passenger function, if Fuping South Railway Station is the first hub of Fuping in the future, then Zhuangli Station is the second hub of Fuping, Caocun Station is the third hub of Fuping, and Zhangqiao Station is the fourth hub of Fuping.
Small information: "Historical Evolution of the West Extension High-speed Railway"
The West Extension High-speed Railway originated from the West Copper Intercity Railway, brewed in the Baohai High-speed Railway, established in the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" Bao (Silver) Sea High-speed Railway, and the section construction will name the Xi'an to Yan'an section on the West Extension High-speed Railway.
First, the west extension of the high-speed railway originated from the west copper intercity railway
According to the strategic cooperation agreement signed by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Shaanxi Province and the Tongchuan Municipal People's Government on December 18, 2009, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, an intercity railway from Xi'an North Railway Station to Tongchuan will be built, with a total length of 83 kilometers, and the Xi'an North Railway Station, the starting point of the Xi'an Copper Intercity, will pass through Xi'an International Port District, Gaoling, Yanliang, Fuping and Zhuangli to Tongchuan, with a total length of about 100 kilometers, a design speed of 200 to 250 kilometers per hour, and an estimated construction period of 4 years. According to the line plan at that time, the Xitong Intercity Railway set up a new Fuping station in Chengguan Town and a Zhuangli station on the west bank of the Ishikawa River in Zhuangli Industrial Park.
The West Copper Intercity Railway was originally scheduled to start construction in June 2014 and was completed and opened to traffic at the end of 2017. A lot of preparatory work was carried out during the same period.
Second, the west extension of the high-speed rail is brewing in the Baohai high-speed railway
On December 30, 2014, the Shaanxi Development and Reform Commission, together with the Inner Mongolia, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan (District) Development and Reform Commission (Iron Office) and the TieYi Yuan, held a preliminary symposium on the Baohai high-speed rail project of the Western High-Speed Railway Corridor (Baotou-Xi'an-Haikou). Reached a broad consensus, and established a linkage promotion mechanism, worked together to report to the state, and strived to make the project included in the national "13th Five-Year Plan" and start implementation as soon as possible. Route direction: north from Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, through Ordos, south through Shaanxi (Yulin, Yan'an, Tongchuan, Xi'an, Ankang), Chongqing (Wushan), Hubei (Enshi), Hunan (Zhangjiajie, Xiangxizhou, Huaihua), Guangxi (Guilin, Yulin), Guangdong (Zhanjiang) and other provinces and regions, ending in Haikou City, Hainan Province.
At the same time, in order to avoid duplicate construction, our province will terminate the Xitong intercity railway project.
Third, the western extension of the high-speed railway was established in the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" package (silver) sea high-speed railway
In 2016, the state issued the "Medium and Long-term Railway Network Planning", which officially included the Baotou (Yin) Hai high-speed railway in the "eight vertical and eight horizontal" plan, with the line being Baotou ~ Ordos ~ Yulin ~ Yan'an ~ Tongchuan ~ Xi'an ~ Ankang ~ Chongqing ~ Guiyang ~ Nanning ~ Zhanjiang ~ Haikou (Sanya) high-speed railway, including Yinchuan ~ Xi'an high-speed railway and Hainan ring island high-speed railway. It connects the northwest, southwest and south China regions, and runs through the urban agglomerations of Hubao'e, Ningxia along the Huang, Guanzhong Plain, Chengdu-Chongqing, Qianzhong, Beibu Bay and so on.
The Bao (Yin) Hai high-speed railway was approved and constructed in sections, and the Section from Xi'an to Yan'an was named the Western Extension High-speed Railway. In December 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission officially approved the feasibility study report on the new Xi'an-Yan'an railway, and the western extension high-speed rail project was correctly established.
The fourth and third adjustments finally reasonably determined the line position of the Xi'an to Tongchuan section of the west extension high-speed railway
(1) Reply. On August 29, 2018, after many years of construction on the basis of the West Copper Intercity, the EIA of the West Extension High-speed Railway was officially approved, marking that the West Extension High-speed Railway has made significant progress, and the pre-approval procedure has been basically completed. After the National Development and Reform Commission officially approves the feasibility study report of the project, construction can begin. There are a total of 11 stations on the whole line, namely port area east (Yuehang Station), Gaoling, Fuping Yanliang, Tongchuan, Tongchuan North, Yijun, Huangling West, Luochuan, Fuxian North, Ganquan North, Yan'an Station (existing); the approval clarifies that Fuping County and Yanliang District jointly built Fuping Yanliang Station with a scale of 2 sets of 6 lines and 6000 square meters, located in the southwest of Fuping County, Jingshanyuan Beiwali Village.
Since the spacing between the stations of the high-speed rail is controlled according to the distance of 30 kilometers in principle, Zhuangli is only 16 kilometers away from Fuping, and the former Zhuangli Station of the West Copper Intercity Railway has been cancelled, so that the West Extension High-speed Railway has only one station in Fuping, namely Fuping Yanliang Station.
In June 2020, the State Railway Group and the Shaanxi Provincial Government approved the preliminary design of the Tongchuan to Yijun section of the project (Tie Jian Letter [2020] No. 235), and the construction drawing design was completed. The construction of the new Yan'an Tunnel (16km), an advance control project for the Yijun-Yan'an section, began on January 9, 2020, marking the official processing of the Western Extension High-Speed Railway.
During the period, the fuping Yanliang station determined by the original research and initial line in the Fuping section is far away from Fuping and Yanliang urban areas, the line layout is not in line with the current plan for the southeastward development of Fuping County, and the site selection has a certain impact on the travel of residents in the densely populated areas in the northeast, and the local government and the local people have put forward strong demands for further optimizing the direction and station setting of the west-extended high-speed rail line.
(2) Adjustment. On August 13, 2020, the "Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Change of the New Railway Xi'an-Yan'an Line" was officially released. The original Gaoling Station and Fuping Yanliang Station were adjusted to Liyang Station and Fuping South Station, and the original line plan passed through Sanyuan County, Xianyang City, and the line was no longer passed after the eastward shift, adding Yanliang District of Xi'an City. There are 9 new stations on the main line of the western extension high-speed railway, namely Liyang, Fuping South, Tongchuan, Tongchuan North, Yijun, Huangling West, Luochuan, Fuxian North, ganquan North, which are connected to the existing Yan'an Station and technically transformed; the main line sets up 3 line offices, namely the Port District East Line Office, the Zhao West Line Office, and the Gengzhen Line Office.
At the same time, the West Korea Intercity Railway Fuping East Station was also cancelled. Fuping South Railway Station is located in Chutian Village, JingshanYuan, southwest of Fuping County, with a scale of 6 lines and 6,000 square meters. At present, all parties are actively working to expand the scale of Fuping South Railway Station to 4 sets of 10 lines of 15,000 square meters, whether it can achieve good wishes can only wait for the approval of the superior.
There are two main sections of the line that have changed due to the optimization of the Station location in Fuping, resulting in a change of about 62km in the line from the north bank of the Weihe River to the Tongchuan inlet section; the other is that the Lintong Airport section is partially set up as a tunnel project, causing the line adjustment to be about 9km, and the resulting change in the east connection line from the port area to the port area.
On September 27, 2020, the "Second Announcement of the Environmental Impact Assessment Information of the Change of the Xi'an-Yan'an Line of the New Railway" began to be announced, the plan of Liyang Station and Fuping South Railway Station was established, and the Xi'an-Tongchuan section began to re-start construction procedures according to the new line level.
During this period, due to the cancellation of Gaoling Station is extremely unfavorable to the construction of Xi'an Weibei Industrial Park, the distance between Liyang Station and Fuping South Railway Station is relatively close, and the tunnel through the military Lintong Airport is difficult to coordinate after the rerouting, coupled with the fact that the original Liyang Station is located between Yanliang District and Gaoling City, there is a certain distance from the two urban areas, whether it is for Gaoling or Yanliang, the distance is relatively far, the ride is inconvenient, similar to the problem of the original Fuping Yanliang Station after a reply, the relevant parties have put forward strong demands, causing the adjustment of the station position of the Xi'an to Tongchuan section of the brew again.
(3) Re-adjustment. Recently, some netizens left a message in the director's mailbox on the official website of the Shaanxi Provincial Development and Reform Commission, consulting "The station position adjustment of Liyang Station and Gaoling Station of the West Extension High-speed Railway!" Now prepare which platform to enable". In response, officials responded on October 20, 2021. Official reply: The design of the Xi'an to Tongchuan section of the western extension of the high-speed railway is being adjusted, and for the problem of Liyang or Gaoling station, according to the current research results, it is planned to be promoted according to the plan of Gaoling station and Liyang line, and the specific project final approval shall prevail.
Gaoling plans to restore the station, and metro line 10 to form a cross intersection, convenient for Gaoling urban area, Jingwei new city near the residents to travel, for Gaoling is undoubtedly good news, Yanliang district mass travel will rely on Fuping South Station and S21 city express line to solve, so that the western extension of the high-speed rail southern section of the station setting will be more reasonable, overall good for the construction of Xi'an Weibei Industrial Park.