The Yuxi–Mohan railway or Yumo railway, is a railway under construction in Yunnan Province of southwest China. The line is slated to run from Yuxi in central Yunnan to Mohan, a town in Mengla Countyon the border with Laos in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture of southern Yunnan. The Yumo railway is designed to "provide efficient, safe, low-carbon, affordable, railway transport" within Yunnan Province. Once connected to the railway to be built in Laos, the Yumo railway would become part of the Kunming-Singapore railway and carry traffic across the Greater Mekong Subregion. Early stage construction began on September 1, 2015. The project is estimated to cost ¥46.46 billion. The railway will be electrified, and will have double-track from Yuxi to Jinghong and single-track from Jinghong to Mohan. Cities and towns along route would include Yuxi, Pu'er, Jinghong and Mohan.
History
After China and 17 other Asian countries signed the Trans-Asian Railway Network Agreement in June 2006, the Yuxi–Mohan railway was proposed as a component of the Kunming–Singapore railway Central Route, which would connect Kunming, Vientane, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. In September 2010, state media in Yunnan reported that the Ministry of Railways had held a planning conference for the Yuxi–Mohan railway in August and that construction of the double trackelectrified line, in length and capable of accommodating trains traveling at speeds of up to, would begin by the end of 2010. The line was reported to cost ¥53.9 billion and take five years to build. Overland travel time from Kunming to Jinghong would be reduced from 9 hours to 2.5 hours. On December 30, 2010, Chinese state media reported that early preparatory work for the Yumo railway had been completed, but the final construction plan had not been publicized. Construction began on a railway logistics center in Mohan. The railway project was delayed, however, after the removal of railway MinisterLiu Zhijun for corruption in February 2011 and the subsequent reorganization of the Railway Ministry into the China Railway Corporation in March 2013. A preliminary feasibility conference for the project was organized in Beijing on November 30, 2013 by the China Railway Corporation at which railway planners and Yunnan officials expressed their desire to see the project proceed quickly.
Construction
Construction on two early-stage segments began on September 1, 2015 with the full-scale construction on the line on 19 April 2016. According to Xinhua News Agency in Yuxi, the line is scheduled to be 507.4 km long, costing 51,609 million yuan, reach maximum speeds of 160 km/h, taking 6 years to complete construction, i.e. 2022. Running times are scheduled to be 1.5 hours from Kunming to Eshan, to be within 3 hours from Kunming to Pu'er City, to be about 3 hours from Kunming to Jinghong City, and 5 hrs from Kunming to Mohan, Yunnan. There will be 13 stations once the line is completed including:
The construction is divided into 22 segments. Reference lists the tunnels and bridges in each segment. The current status is that 6820-meter Yueyatian Tunnel is done on 30 December 2019.
