Chapter 812: Passenger train

In Jianning's train factory, Chen Xinzheng had a meeting with the people from

the factory.

The content discussed at the meeting was still about the manufacturing and

design of nuclear-powered locomotives. In addition to the country's current

national plan to gradually resume passenger rail transportation, Chen Xin and

the others mainly discussed the establishment of train sets after the

completion of the Asia-Europe railway line. problem.

"At present, the most important demand for the Asia-Europe railway line is the

demand for freight and logistics. Therefore, the most demanded are general-

purpose container trucks, gondola wagons for bulk cargo, refrigerated trucks

for frozen food, hopper wagons for transporting coal and grains, and Freight

carriages such as tank trucks that transport gasoline and other liquids.” A

staff member was holding a report and explaining to the participants:

“Container trucks are the most in demand, and hopper trucks are also in great

demand. Others of…"

What the staff said was quite lengthy and involved a lot of professional-

related matters. Others in the meeting might have listened very attentively,

but for Chen Xin, he had just listened to these contents, and most of them

There is no direct connection with him.

This undoubtedly caused him to be a little distracted, thinking about the

situation in Europe.

As for the situation in Europe, Chen Xin undoubtedly knows better. After all,

most of the goods that Europe can provide to the country are the output

obtained under his own management.

At present, European imports are mainly industrial raw materials such as

various ores and crude oil, while domestic exports to Europe are mainly

foreign trade weapons and some grains, as well as living materials.

In the past, cargo land cruisers traveled from China to Europe, and they

mainly used freight containers when loading goods. However, when they returned

from Europe, the goods were not easy to load in containers.

After all, most of the ore is in bulk, and it is easy to damage the container

if it is loaded in a container.

Therefore, the practice at that time was to initially smelt the ore, and then

load the ore ingots into a container after refining them into raw ore.

But even so, it was still very inconvenient. Chen Xin had to design a

universal container to solve the problem.

As for the oilfields in the North Sea after they resumed work, the oil

produced also faced the same problem. Fortunately, the output was not high at

that time, and most of it was supplied for the logistics needs of the European

defense line. Only a part of it was shipped back to China after being packed

in barrels.

However, barrel transportation has undoubtedly greatly increased the

transportation cost and reduced the transportation volume. If it were not for

the small transportation volume at that time, Chen Xin would like to

specialize in two oil-carrying land cruisers to transport oil products back to

China.

But now... Listening to the staff's introduction, it seems that it is going to

be transported by tanker truck.

Chen Xin felt unconvinced about this.

In terms of transportation, tank trucks can of course be used to transport oil

products, but it is best to transport refined oil, because the transportation

volume of tank trucks is too low to transport crude oil.

A common tank truck weighs about 50-70 tons, and its volume is about 50-70

cubic meters. Even if one train is composed of 100 tanks, one train can pull

thousands of tons of finished products. Oil.

Although it sounds like a lot, it's not too much. Even if the largest

120-cubic long tanker is used, it can pull more than 10,000 tons.

And obviously, it is impossible for a train with more than 100 sections to

hang tank cars.

Therefore, relatively speaking, it is still more cost-effective that a large-

capacity transportation tool such as a ship has a larger capacity.

This is also the reason why in the past, in addition to tankers, pipelines

were used to transport crude oil and refined oil products, and trains were

rarely used.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin suddenly felt that he might be able to reuse those

oil tankers, anyway, they are now like other ships, most of them are frozen in

the port, if no one cares, maybe no one cares about them for hundreds of

years. Or simply will be dismantled into scrap steel.

However, when Chen Xin was thinking about these issues, the staff suddenly

came up with a topic that interested him.

"According to European requirements, they hope to open a passenger train

between China and my country. Although the country has not yet agreed to this

matter, the Ministry of Railways requires us to come up with a feasible design

plan." The staff introduced the participants to the meeting. NS.

Hearing this, Chen Xin asked: "Europe asks for the opening of passenger

trains? Are they trying to escape?"

"We don't know this. The Ministry of Railways just asked us to come up with a

design plan for passenger trains." The staff themselves are curious about this

question, but obviously he has no way to answer this question.

Chen Xin was able to answer this question himself. The question was just a

casual question. After asking, he didn’t care since no one answered, so he

asked another question: “Passenger trains are indeed a very important issue.

Not only the trains on the European side, but the domestic countries also

intend to resume passenger trains. Do you have a mature passenger train

design?"

After asking this question, Chen Xin looked at the staff of the train factory

with a little expectation.

Before, Chen Xin had visited nuclear-powered trains that were still being

tested, including passenger carriages, but that was all a few years ago, and

the train manufacturer only came up with a conceptual design plan.

And at that time, limited by the number of nuclear-powered noses, these

nuclear-powered locomotives were used for transportation of important

materials. uukahnshu. com is a mobile shelter composed of nuclear-powered

locomotives when it was previously used for disaster relief and relocation of

victims in the southwest region and relocation of people around Dongting Lake.

Now that several years have passed, Chen Xin is curious whether they have come

up with a new and more practical design.

The staff did not live up to Chen Xin's expectations, and they quickly came up

with a design plan for passenger trains.

"The passenger carriages that we currently have that can be marshalled with

nuclear-powered noses are mainly divided into hard-seat carriages for short-

distance use and hard-sleeper carriages for long-distance use, as well as

supporting functional carriages. Based on the current technical reserves, take

It’s not a problem to come up with a feasible plan.” The staff explained to

Chen Xin, and showed various functional carriages one by one: “These

functional carriages are all made by our researchers and designers over the

past few years. As a result, considering that the requirement is to carry out

long-distance passenger journeys to Europe, more consideration should be given

to the logistical supply guarantee in train formation. After all, there is no

supply for thousands of kilometers, and the car can withstand it.

And you also need to consider the issue of snow removal. For thousands of

kilometers of railway, if there is a snow section that is difficult to pass,

it is also a very troublesome thing..."