Beijing-Shanghai Railway Resumes Normal Operations

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Beijing-Shanghai Railway Resumes Normal Operations

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All passenger and freight trains,except one, operating on the Beijing-Shanghai Railway Line, one ofChina's major rail arteries, resumed normal operations after floods damaged sections of the track almost a week ago.

Railway officials said 98.9 percent of passenger trains were reaching their destinations on schedule.

Passenger train No. T52, which runs on part of the line as it travels between Shanghai and Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has yet to resume operations dueto a lack of trains, said the officials.

Transportation on the line was suspended three times after three different sections were inundated by flood waters from July 4 to July 6, and the railway bed in some sections was washed away on July 5.

But the damaged sections were repaired within two to seven hours by 400 to 600 soldiers from the Nanjing Military Command.

Rainstorms have hit the Huaihe River Valley, through which the line runs, time and again over the past two weeks, causing devastating floods in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, east China.

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