The Hangzhou to Deqing line (杭德市域铁路) is due to carry passengers from the end of December. Deqing News (德清新闻网), the county’s own paper, said so on 9 November, in a report on the line’s last round of testing. Earlier in the week, Tide News (潮新闻) had reported the same test, due to last until early December, without giving any opening date.
Since 7 November, the line has been running to its full working timetable (贯通跑图), joined up with the part of Hangzhou Metro Line 10 that is already open. Ye Hong (叶洪), executive deputy general manager of the county rail transit group (县轨道交通集团), told the paper it is the last stage before opening: trains run to the real timetable so that track, signals, power, rolling stock and dispatchers can be tested as one system. The paper’s reporter rode a test train out of Deqing high speed station at 06:00, heading for Huanglong Sports Centre (黄龙体育中心) in Hangzhou. Passengers got on only at Yisheng Road (逸盛路), where the section already in service begins.
That’s still the limit. Riders can use only the 12 stations from Huanglong Sports Centre to Yisheng Road. The Deqing stations, and the new stations on Line 10’s extensions, are closed. The paper says a rider from Deqing will reach central Hangzhou without changing trains only after the line opens at the end of December.
The report gives a month, not a day. There’s no timetable and no fare yet. The county government’s portal times out from outside China, so it has not been checked, and the date rests on Deqing News. Hangzhou Net (杭州网) reported in May that an opening was hoped for at the end of December, so the two agree. Once the line opens, riders from Deqing will take its four car trains straight through onto Line 10.
For a trip this month or next, nothing changes. From Hangzhou, take the high speed train from Hangzhou East to Deqing, about a quarter of an hour, then the bus or a taxi up the hill. Our page on Deqing station covers that last stretch, and the metro line will end at the same station.
What this means for a visitor: A visitor planning a trip from Hangzhou in January can hope to take the metro all the way to Deqing station, but should not count on it until a day is announced; until then the way in is the high speed train from Hangzhou East.
Sources
- 德清新闻网 (Deqing News, reporter Lu Yanling), , tier 2, dated regional or trade press. Read the original
- 潮新闻 (Tide News (Zhejiang Daily Press Group), carried by The Paper), , tier 2, dated regional or trade press. Read the original
- 杭州网 (Hangzhou Net), , tier 2, dated regional or trade press. Read the original
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