Olympic high speed train Beijing-Tianjin opening for soccer game

by SOLARLIFE | August 7, 2008 at 06:27 pm | 540 views | 9 comments
China Draw 1-1 with New Zealand in Men's Soccer 2008-08-07 21:47:37     Xinhua





Chinese men's Olympic soccer team win their first point and score their first goal in Olympic Games and World Cup as they drew with Olympian debutant New Zealand 1-1 in their Group C match of the men's soccer tournament on Thursday, August 7, 2008. [Photo: sina.com.cn]
China won their first point and scored their
first goal in Olympic Games and World Cup as
they drew with Olympian debutant New Zealand 1-1
in their Group C match of the men's soccer
tournament on Thursday. Subsititute forward Dong
Fangzhuo, who plays for Manchester United, scored
a last-gasp goal with a headar with two minutes
before the final whistle.

The intercity rail line will shuttle spectators, athletes,
media people and other passengers between Beijing and Tianjin,
which is to host 12 Olympic football matches from Aug. 6 to 15.
To watch the soccer games at Tianjin take the high speed train
just opening Aug 1. First results, Chinese men soccer team plays
1-1 with Olympic debutant New Zealand in the group C match.
China will take on Belgium and the Kiwis will meet Brazil.

Some "Solar and train station" details:
Ten eight-car trains are already in service, each equipped with
aircraft-like cabins, swivel seats, spacious interiors and
rooftop solar panels. Every train carries 600 passengers.
Beijing South Railway Station, in Chongwen District
The roof of the central building,  3,000 solar panels
installed, which have a total capacity of 250 kilowatts
.

Train Ticket price: 70 Yuan /$ 10 first class, 50 Yuan second class

The new train cuts the 120-km journey from the current 70 minutes to about 30 minutes. There are five stations along the line: the cavernous new Beijing South Railway Station, Yizhuang, Yongle, Wuqing and Tianjin. The Beijing-Tianjin Intercity passenger trains speeds up to run at 350 km per hour. The railway is the world's fastest with passenger trains running at an operational speed of 350 km per hour, according to the Ministry of Railways (MOR), which claims high-speed trains in Japan and Spain run at 320 km per hour, and those in France and Germany at 300 km per hour.

 

 

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Paschen

Foot Ball!! 

Paschen
good stuff:

SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.

I like the train though!

zichi

I see very few NP members following the request by NP Buddhist monk Mettacara, to boycott Olympic reporting today, especially with today being 20 years since the uprising in Burma.

I hope he won't feel too sad by that?

Did you see the Guardian Weekly in London did a story about him. Good reporting and a good photo of him.

I see the top women's football team from America had a poor game against Norway, losing 2-0?



Paschen

Thanks for the reminder zichi! I mean it! Thanks for bringing that up!

SOLARLIFE

Paschen, thanks for flag "Olympic High speed train", looks great, a year ago was still the train "style 1960", soccer/foot ball so help me out what term should we use? The french say football and mean soccer, the americans soccer ... some proposals ? The first olympic game is over against new Zealand, nobody got this really. Everybody fixed on official openeing.

zichi

football

SOLARLIFE

zichi thanks  for reminder Birma, good point. your vote football ( not soccer)

zichi

the official Olympic sport is football, and there is no America football in the games so its irrelevant....

SOLARLIFE

zichi, thanks for making it clear, I am not so good in sport, I like the  ironmen competition french rivierea, interesting funny guys with style, my limit however 25 km walking, 2 km swimming, no bycycle with the bad air.

Had a look to the Guardian weekly mettacara report now on frontpage. This is a impressing step into public awareness for mettacara, he has all my respect; even i share not all of his opinions. So how can we help lifepractical going over limit  boykott,  to concrete basebuilding ?

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