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The railway crosses the Taihang mountain range through the Taihang Tunnel, which, at almost 28 kilometres (17 mi) long, is (as of 2010) the longest railway tunnel in China.
History
June 11, 2005: Construction of this line began.
December 22, 2007: the 27,848 m (17.304 mi)-long Taihang Tunnel, was broken through.
December 25, 2008: TISCO Bridge was completed, bringing the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan PDL more than a week ahead of the scheduled construction time with all track laying completed.
January 1, 2009: the official opening.
February 18, 2009: EMU test car running.
April 1, 2009: EMU put into formal operation.
Services
The Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan high-speed railway is used by G- and D-series high-speed trains. Initially, they mostly ran between Taiyuan and Shijiazhuang. With the opening of the Beijing–Guangzhou high-speed railway, which runs through Shijiazhuang, in December 2012, almost all of these trains have been extended beyond Shijiazhuang; most of them now continue north to Beijing, while some go south, to Wuhan, Guangzhou, and other points along the line.
我国最长山岭隧道石太客运专线太行山隧道贯通 [My country's longest mountain tunnel, the Taihang Tunnel on the Shijizhuang–Taiyuan PDL, opens]. Xinhua News Hebei. 2007-12-23. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-08-26.