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Binhai Port railway

railway line in Jiangsu, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2023
Entity authorityQ106816693 ↗
Source-derived summary

Binhai Port railway (Chinese: 盐城滨海港铁路) is a single-track branch line in Yancheng, Jiangsu, China. It is currently under construction.

Route

The line starts at Binhaigang railway station on the Qingdao–Yancheng railway and heads east, terminating at the eastern coast. The line is 50.1 kilometres (31.1 mi) long and will have a maximum speed of 120 kilometres per hour (75 mph).

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This entry incorporates text from “Binhai Port railway” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.