雙語科技百科(近現代成就) 第115期:京九鐵路

Jingjiu Railway

京九鐵路

Jngjiu Railway (also known as Beijing-Kowloon Railway) connects Beijing West Station in Beijing to Shenzhen Station in Shenzhen, Guang-dong Province. It then follows the rail-link between Shenzhen to the special admin-strative region of Hong Kong to Hung Hom Station ( Kowloon Station) in Kowloon. It is a dual-track truction began in February opened in 1996, connecting Beijing and Kowloon through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangdong, with a length of 2397 kilometers. Within Hong Kong, it shares the same pair of tracks with the East Rail Line (formerly British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway).

京九鐵路（北京——九龍鐵路）北起北京西站，跨越京、津、冀、魯、豫、皖、鄂、贛、粵九省市的98個市縣，南至深圳，連接香港九龍，全長2397千米。京九鐵路1993年4月20日全線正式開工，於1995年11月16日全線鋪通，1996年9月1日通車。京九鐵路香港段，港稱九廣東鐵，前稱九廣鐵路（英段）。

Located between Jinghu Railway ( Beijing-Shanghai) and Jingguang Railway ( Beijing-Guangzhou) , it was built to alleviate the congested Jingguang Railway, and to foster development in the areas to the east of Jingguang Railway.

位於京滬、京廣鐵路之間的京九鐵路的開通運營，不僅緩解了京九鐵路的運輸壓力，也加快京廣鐵路沿線地區脫貧致富。