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16-16 Basic Statistics on National Railways in Operation

Item 1985 1990 1995 2000 2003 2004
 
Length of Railways in Operation      (km) 52119 53378 54616 58656 60446 61015
In Formal Operation 49433 50310 50866 51262 56238 56822
In Temporary Operation 2686 3068 3750 7394 4208 4193
Proportion of the Length in Formal 94.8 94.3 93.1 87.4 93.0 93.1
Operation
Double-Tracking Length                    (km) 9989 13024 16909 21408 23702 23841
As Percentage of the Length of Railways 19.2 24.4 31.0 36.5 39.2 39.1
in Operation
Length of Electrified Railways          (km) 4151 6941 9703 14864 18060 18562
As Percentage of Railways in Operation 8.0 13.0 17.8 25.3 29.9 30.4
Length of Diesel Engine Routes        (km) 10822 16097 24749 39497 42386 42453
As Percentage of Railways in Operation 20.8 30.2 45.3 67.3 70.1 69.6
Length under Centralized Traffic Control (km) 1307 1169 1226 1200 1842 1842
As Percentage of Railways in Operation 2.5 2.2 2.2 2.0 3.0 3.0
Automatic Blocking Length              (km) 6921 10370 12910 18318 21920 22724
As Percentage of Railways in Operation 13.3 19.4 23.6 31.2 36.3 37.2
Semi-automatic Blocking Length     (km) 42625 38832 40859 41694 39522 39334
As Percentage of Railways in Operation 81.8 72.7 74.8 71.1 65.4 64.5
Length of Continuous Welded Rail (km) 10439 14644 21854 29975 39497 43198
As Percentage of the Trunk Lines 16.7 21.7 40.0 51.1 46.0 70.8
Number of Stations with Electric 2320 3535 4587 5232 5204 5340
Interlocking                                   (unit)
As Percentage of Railways Stations 46.9 62.9 73.9 90.4 92.9 95.1
in Operation
 


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These tables are based on figures supplied by the National Bureau Of Statistics of the The Peoples Republic Of China and are subject to revision by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

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