No abnormality found in post-earthquake investigation, Qinghai-Tibet Railway fully resumes normal operation in earthquake-affected section

China News Service, Lhasa, October 24 (Gonggaraisong) At 22:33 on October 22, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Baqing County, Nagqu City, Tibet, and the earthquake affected parts of the Gela section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. In order to strictly adhere to the bottom line of railway transportation safety, China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. quickly launched a first-level emergency response and comprehensively carried out the investigation of hidden dangers in line equipment and transportation order control. At present, all temporary speed restrictions in the earthquake-affected sections have been cancelled, railway trains have returned to normal speed, and transportation across the board is stable and orderly.

After the earthquake, the Qinghai-Tibet Group Company strictly followed the safety principle of "block first, then inspect, then release", accurately stopped trains in transit, blocked relevant sections, quickly activated the emergency response mechanism, and coordinated various professional forces to jointly carry out rescue and investigation work.

This investigation mobilized multiple professional forces for comprehensive inspections. Multiple departments such as public works, locomotives, electrical services, communications, power supply, and housing construction worked together to form more than a hundred special inspection teams and invest in multiple groups of rail cars, locomotives, and a large number of operating personnel. The staff carried out network-style and dynamic hidden danger inspections on more than 1,000 kilometers of lines, bridges and tunnels, communication and power supply equipment, station facilities and other key points along the line, verified the operating status of the equipment item by item, and established inspection ledgers to ensure that no safety blind spots were left.

While building a strong defense line for transportation safety, the Qinghai-Tibet Group Corporation is making every effort to ensure passenger services. In response to situations such as train delays and stranded passengers, all stations in the jurisdiction are on duty, and volunteer service posts have been added to provide passenger consultation and guidance, refund and change processing, and emotional comfort. The train is fully stocked with food, drinking water, emergency medicine and other supplies to fully meet the basic needs of passengers on the way. At the same time, stranded passengers were efficiently relieved by opening 9 additional passenger trains and linking local transportation connections.

In the next step, the Qinghai-Tibet Group Corporation will continue to closely track the earthquake situation and aftershock risks, carry out post-earthquake line equipment inspections on a regular basis, dynamically optimize the train operation plan, strictly and carefully prevent various secondary safety hazards, and make every effort to protect the safe, smooth, smooth and orderly transportation artery of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway Plateau.