Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway 达万铁路

Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway, referred to as Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway, is a national railway Class I passenger and freight railway in China connecting Dazhou City, Sichuan Province and Wanzhou District, Chongqing City. It is the first railway to the Three Gorges Reservoir Area. The railway is also an important part of the Chongqing-Shanghai along-river railway channel among the “eight vertical and eight horizontal” trunk lines planned by the Ministry of Railways during the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period. The Dawan Railway was first built on October 31, 1997; it was fully paved on October 23, 2002; it was officially put into operation on January 11, 2004; it started electrification transformation on February 8, 2010; it was completed on November 2010 The renovation was completed and put into operation on January 1st.
The Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway starts from the Dazhou end of the Xiangyu Railway in the west and ends at Longbao, Wanzhou in the east. The line runs through Dazhou and Kaijiang in Sichuan, Liangping and Wanzhou in Chongqing and other places. The Dawan Railway is an important part of the Chongqing-Shanghai riverside railway channel among the “eight vertical and eight horizontal” main lines of China’s railways planned during the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” period by the Ministry of Railways. It plays a “finishing point” role in improving the railway network in western China. . The Dawan Railway has shortened the distance for materials from western and northern Sichuan to central and southern China and eastern China via the Baocheng, Chengdu and Xiangyu railways. It has also alleviated the railway transportation pressure at the Chongqing railway hub and the north entrance of Sichuan. It has also accelerated the planning of the Southwest Railway to the East. Channel construction has played a role in promoting this. The opening of the Dawanzhou Railway has given the Three Gorges Reservoir area, which has always used waterways, a new mode of transportation. It plays an indispensable and important role in improving Wanzhou’s urban functions and accelerating the pace of Wanzhou’s construction of a big city. The Dawan Railway has helped enterprises in the Three Gorges Reservoir area reduce transportation costs, speed up product turnover, and allocate resources calmly; and for the majority of farmers, the Dawan Railway has provided a more convenient way of travel for the labor force to move out for work. More importantly, the Dawan Railway is an important infrastructure for the developmental resettlement of the Three Gorges Project and has the important mission of promoting large-scale resettlement in the reservoir area. The opening of the entire Dawan Railway to traffic has effectively changed the backwardness of the reservoir area, which has low road standards, high freight prices, high energy consumption, poor water transportation equipment, and small transportation capacity.

达万铁路(Dazhou-Wanzhou Railway)，简称达万线，是中国境内一条连接四川省达州市和重庆市万州区的国铁 Ⅰ级客货共线铁路，是通往三峡库区的第一条铁路，也是铁道部”十五”期间规划的”八纵八横”主干线中，重庆至上海沿江铁路大通道的重要组成部分。达万铁路始建于1997年10月31日 ;于2002年10月23日全线铺通 ;于2004年1月11日正式投运 ;于2010年2月8日开始电气化改造;于2010年11月1日完成改造并投运 。
达万铁路西起于襄渝铁路达州端、东止于万州龙宝，线路行经四川的达州、开江，重庆的梁平、万州等地 。达万铁路是铁道部规划的”十五”期间中国铁路”八纵八横”主干线中，重庆至上海沿江铁路大通道的重要组成部分，它对于完善中国西部铁路网有着”画龙点睛”的作用。达万铁路缩短了川西、川北地区物资经宝成、成渝、襄渝等铁路运往中南及华东地区的距离，减轻了重庆铁路枢纽及四川北口的铁路运输压力，对加速规划中的西南铁路东通道建设起到了推动作用。达万铁路的通车使历来走水路的三峡库区有了全新的运输方式，对于完善万州的城市功能，加快万州建设大城市的步伐，具有不可或缺的重要作用。达万铁路帮助三峡库区企业降低了运输成本，加快了产品周转，从容调配了资源;而对于广大农民来说，达万铁路为劳动力外出务工流动提供了更加便捷的出行方式。更重要的还在于，达万铁路是三峡工程开发性移民的重要基础设施，担负推动库区大移民的重大使命。达万铁路的全线通车，有效地改变库区公路标准低、运价高、能耗大而水运设备差、运能小的落后面貌 。