Weilai high speed railway will be opened to traffic by the end of next year! Yantai Jinan 2 hours!

On December 7, at the construction site of Laixi super major bridge of Weilai high speed railway, with a track laying locomotive steadily pushing two 500m long rails into place, the laying of Weilai high speed rail officially started, which also marks that the project officially enters the track laying construction stage. A 6031 a 6031 track laying this time uses a high-speed rail laying unit to lay the track from Laixi to Weifang. The daily laying length of the track is more than 6 kilometers. It is expected that the track laying of the whole line will be completed by the end of May next year. It is planned to open to traffic by the end of next year, when it is expected to arrive between Yantai and Jinan in two hours. A 6031 a 6031 Weilai high speed railway is led from Weifang North Station of Jinan Qingdao high speed railway, passing through Changyi, Pingdu and Laixi in the East, and leading into Laixi North Station of Qingrong intercity. The total length of the main line is 125.757km, and there are four stations in Weifang north, Changyi south, Pingdu north and Laixi northwest. The construction of the whole line will be started on January 1, 2018, and it is planned to meet the traffic conditions by the end of 2020.

at present, subgrade, bridge foundation, box girder erection, tunnel and other works under the track have been basically completed, and ballastless track, high-speed turnout, station building, four electrical engineering and other works have been fully started. Among them, ballastless track has completed 128 single track kilometers, 59% of which has been completed. A 6031 a 6031 Weilai high speed railway is 258.371km in total, with a track laying base in Laixi. On October 14, 2019, the first 500m long rail train of Weilai high speed railway arrived at Laixi track laying base, which was efficient and smooth. By the end of November, the track laying base had been 112.5km. The total investment of the

Weilai high speed railway project is 16.133 billion yuan, 5.04 billion yuan in 2019, 91.6% of the annual plan of 5.5 billion yuan. Up to now, Weilai high speed railway has invested 10 billion yuan, 62% of the total investment.

Weilai high speed railway is an important part of the "four horizontal, six vertical and three ring" high-speed railway network layout of Shandong Province, which takes into account the function of Pingdu Qingdao (suburban) railway, mainly undertakes the passenger traffic between Yantai, Weihai, Weifang and the west, and will become a convenient channel from the eastern part of Jiaodong Peninsula to the mainland, strengthening regional ties It is of great significance to promote the development of small and medium-sized cities along the line, promote the formation of regional urban agglomerations, and improve the rational division of labor and structural transformation and upgrading of urban agglomerations.