Why is the Chengdu-Kunming line out of service?

Kunming railway administration announced on the 29th that chengdu-kunming railway, which once stopped passenger transport due to water disaster, has met the requirements of passenger train operation after the centralized rectification and hidden danger investigation and management in kunming railway administration for nearly 1 month, and will resume passenger train operation on Chengdu-Kunming line from August 1 day.

Chengdu-Kunming Railway (Chengdu-Kunming Railway), referred to as chengdu-kunming railway for short, is a Class I passenger and freight common line of the national railway connecting Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province in China. The line runs in the north-south direction, which is one of the railway trunk lines in the southwest of China and one of the three horizontal and five vertical railway trunk lines in China.

Chengdu-kunming railway was founded in1958; During the period from 1959 to 1969, chengdu-kunming railway stopped work several times before resuming work; On July 1970, the whole line of chengdu-kunming railway was completed and put into production.

work progress

In July, 1958, the construction of Chengdu-Emei section in chengdu-kunming railway started in an all-round way.

1April, 959, due to the domestic economic depression and food shortage at that time, chengdu-kunming railway dismounted and stopped working except for the key tunnel project from Chengdu to Shawan and south of Shawan.

1960, the Chengdu-Kunming railway project resumed construction once, but only stopped after the completion of the Chengdu-Qinglongchang finishing project.