A section of high speed rail track has reportedly ‘collapsed’ in central China following heavy rain and ‘possible poor construction’, local media said.
In July last year, 40 people were killed when two high speed trains crashed, raising safety concerns over the quickly-expanding rail network in China.
The section that collapsed on Friday was part of a 180 mile high speed rail link in central China, reportedly set to open this May.
Xinhua news agency said there were no reports of any injuries from the collapsed track.
The Chinese government plans to spend around $300Â billion building 16,000Â miles of high speed rail network by 2020.
It is has been reported that the Chinese want to get involved in building Britain’s HS2 !!!!Â
After, what seems like gross incompetence over the past couple of years, I wouldn’t let them build a miniture railway in my back gardenÂ
The possible reason could be weak formation which dveloped slip causing the track colapsed.
Mohd Bakhsh
typical Chinese, in a race to build the quickest and the fastest and the longest they forgot to build it the safest. I read a report last year that talked about the UK rail network being the second safest in Europe and I would much rather have a safe railway in the UK than the longest quickest built that gets washed away with a bit of rain or the fastest that when they have an accidednt they destroy and bury the evidence. There is not a single Chinese speaker at the http://www.railwayafetysummit.com I wonder why and will let you draw your own conclusions. We may not be cheap and we may not be the quickest but we are up there in terms of safety