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On December 11, locally, the launch ceremony for the track works of the Malaysia East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project was held in Kuantan, Malaysia. The initiation of the ECRL track works marks the official transition of the entire project from offline to online engineering. The Chinese standards adopted in the project will effectively ensure the smooth progress of the track works.
In the long steel rail storage area not far from the track-laying machine, a stack of 500-meter-long steel rails, which have already been welded, stands out as the most distinctive feature of the entire track-laying base. In the adjacent welding workshop, workers are busy and orderly at their respective operating platforms.
Yan Shu, a reporter from CMG: On my left hand side, the shining device is a fixed flash welding machine used to weld 25-meter-long standard steel rails. Here, the steel rails are welded into 500-meter-long ones. After further cooling and grinding processes, they are transported by machines to a large-scale long steel rail storage area at the bottom of the workshop. Every steel rail produced here will ultimately be laid on the over 600-kilometer-long Malaysia East Coast Railway line.
The adoption of Chinese standards in the ECRL track works represents the first time such standards have been implemented in Malaysia. Compared with the European standards previously used locally, higher requirements are placed on construction techniques and technologies.
Xu Chao, Project Manager of the ECRL Long Steel Rail Track-Laying Machine: It (this track-laying machine) can use GPS or Beidou navigation for autonomous route tracing and positioning. During operation, there is no need to control the direction. Its track-laying accuracy can reach within ±10 millimeters.
According to the planning of the track works project, the first phase will involve laying 94 kilometers of track from the Kuantan Port City Station to Terengganu's Long Yun, expected to take 3 to 4 months. Subsequently, tracks will be laid from the Kuantan Port City Station to Tanjung Piai, and then from Long Yun northward to Kota Bharu. Finally, tracks will be laid between Tanjung Piai and Customs Road in Selangor.
Source: Sohu News
