Xintang railway station is expected to start construction in 2020, as the tender bidding for this traffic hub project was launched on April 4.

Xintang railway station, located in Xintang Town of Zengcheng District in the east of Guangzhou,  will be one of the city’s three auxiliary passenger railway stations, along with Guangzhou North railway station and Nansha railway station, according to the Planning of Guangzhou Railway Hubs (2016-2030). Together they will serve as auxiliaries to five major railway hubs in the city—Guangzhou railway station, Guangzhou South railway station, Guangzhou East railway station, Foshan West railway station, and Tangxi railway station.

According to the bidding announcement, the Xintang station is positioned as an auxiliary station of Guangzhou East, to mainly handle the departure and arrival of high-speed trains of Guangzhou-Shantou, Jiangxi-Shenzhen, and Guangzhou-Shenzhen rail routes, as well as the passing of high-speed trains of Beijing-Guangzhou, Naning-Guangzhou, and Guizhou-Guangzhou routes. It will also handle some departure and arrival operations of passenger trains in the eastern part of China.

The station is expected to become an important gateway connecting eastern Guangzhou with Dongguan city, and even linking cities in eastern Guangdong province and eastern China.

Xintang was planned to be the interchange station of Guangzhou metro line 13 and line 16. Now, three more metro lines are scheduled to connect the station in the future according to the bidding announcement—metro line 20, line 28 and a branch line of 28.

Metro line 20 will start from Canton Tower station and stretch east to Xintang station and finally end at Jiangnan station. The 47.8-kilometer line will go through four districts: Haizhu, Tianhe, Huangpu, and Zengcheng.

To support the strategic planning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, metro line 28 is expected to be an east-west intercity fast line that will connect Guangzhou, Foshan, Dongguan and Huizhou. In the Guangzhou area, it will run across Liwan, Haizhu, Huangpu and Zengcheng districts. The whole line stretches 107.1 kilometers, with a branch line of 48 kilometers. Plans call for the metro line to run with eight cars at 160 kilometers per hour.

Xintang station will serve as a convergence point for high-speed railways, intercity railways, and metro lines. Once completed, it is expected to handle in 2030 a passenger flow of up to 27.31 million annually, and 75,000 trips on a daily basis. And transfers in the station should take no more than 3.2 minutes, the bidding announcement said.

Author: Annie

Source: Silk Road Post