Close inside of Cat Linh - Ha Dong railway before the test run

Trains of Cat Linh - Ha Dong railway line are ready to test on the whole route tomorrow morning (September 20) . It is known that the test run process will last from 3-6 months to align before being put into commercial exploitation.

Tomorrow morning (September 20), 5 railway trains will run on the entire route Cat Linh - Ha Dong in accordance with the actual route.

Mr. Vu Hong Phuong - Deputy Director in charge of Railway Project Management Board (Ministry of Transport) said that each train runs 10 minutes apart and operates through automatic control system.

It is known that the test run will take place at night, with load;operating the station, making train diagrams, operating utilities for passengers .

During the test run, the maximum speed of the train is 65km per hour, the average speed is 30-35km per hour, at each station, the train will stop for 1 minute.

In the early days, trains had a time of 10-12 minutes / trip, and within 3-6 months, the design time will be shortened and 5 minutes / trip will be taken when commercial exploitation.

Until now, the entire railway of Cat Linh - Ha Dong has completed the items to serve the test run.

The construction unit is deploying the installation of ticket machines, automatic ticket control;test operation control of air conditioning, ventilation, lighting system, roll bar, elevator .

This project will have 681 personnel involved in both on-site training and receiving projects to later manage, operate and exploit.

In particular, direct training for the project is 651 with 201 people trained in China, the rest are trained in Vietnam), there are 30 personnel managed through training.

Previously, from the beginning of August, the project was operating each item such as signal information, electrical equipment ., in order to align with each specialized equipment installed on the whole route.

During the 3-6 month trial period, the Project Management Board will continue to conduct finalization before putting it into commercial operation.