Good news for train spotting?
"Railway sector
With over RMB 6.52 trillion to be input in the railway sector from 2006-2010,
China will build 17,000 km new lines, purchase 220,000 cargo trains and 26,000 passenger trains in addition to the holding of 580,000 units of freight vehicles. In the meantime, the 60-tonne freight trains, now numbering 600,000 or so in the country, will all be renovated into 75-tonne ones. "
Lifted from - CHINA METALS- published by China Economic Information Center, Xinhua News Agency
AlanB
Melbourne
"Railway sector
With over RMB 6.52 trillion to be input in the railway sector from 2006-2010,
China will build 17,000 km new lines, purchase 220,000 cargo trains and 26,000 passenger trains in addition to the holding of 580,000 units of freight vehicles. In the meantime, the 60-tonne freight trains, now numbering 600,000 or so in the country, will all be renovated into 75-tonne ones. "
Lifted from - CHINA METALS- published by China Economic Information Center, Xinhua News Agency
AlanB
Melbourne