On April 24, 2026, the Wuhan railway construction market once again threw heavy news. With the public announcement of the bid evaluation results, the Wuhan hub direct line with a total investment of nearly 1.9 billion yuan and a total length of 90.419 kilometers will officially start construction at the end of April. This steel dragon, which carries the heavy responsibility of the national high-speed railway corridor along the Yangtze River, has finally fully awakened after going through preliminary preparations. In the next five years, tens of thousands of builders will engage in a large-scale engineering battle on both sides of the Yangtze River and the Jianghan Plain, with completion expected by the end of April 2031. This is not only a physical expansion of the Wuhan railway hub, but also a key leap towards its "super meter shaped" high-speed rail network.

Five major sections divide the billion dollar project

According to the announcement, the station front engineering of the entire line has been divided into 5 core sections, with China Railway 16th Bureau, China Railway 1st Bureau, China Railway 4th Bureau, and China Railway 11th Bureau among the strong contenders. Among them, the ZTXZQ-1 section was awarded a bid of 2.183 billion yuan by China Railway 16th Bureau, mainly responsible for the Huangjiahu Line Station and the Baishazhou Public Railway Bridge project; The ZTXZQ-3 section was jointly won by China Railway First Group and Wuhan Railway Construction with a bid of 2.597 billion yuan, focusing on the Hanyang high-speed railway station and the cross river bridge; The farthest ZTXZQ-5 section falls under China Railway 11th Bureau, with a target value of 3.465 billion yuan directly referring to the construction of Fuhe Grand Bridge and Xiaogan South Station. In addition to the control project of Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge Section 2 previously won by CCCC Second Harbor Engineering Co., Ltd. for 4.612 billion yuan, the entire project's pre station engineering investment alone has exceeded 10 billion yuan.

Building a high-speed road over Jianghan

This new artery has extremely high technological content. The line starts from Yunmeng East Station and is designed with high standards of 350 kilometers per hour and 250 kilometers per hour for speed segmentation, utilizing the under construction Wuyi high-speed railway connection line of 11.398 kilometers.

Multiple super bridges need to be erected along the entire line, including the Wujiu connecting line crossing the Beijing Guangzhou Railway super bridge and the Caijiatai Hanjiang super bridge. At the same time, the Wujiashan freight car connecting line and the Yuhua connecting line will be rebuilt. Especially the Baishazhou Yangtze River Bridge, which integrates high-speed railway, intercity railway, and urban expressway, will become the 12th Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan after completion. Keywords: railway transportation, infrastructure

As the drilling rig is about to roar, the last piece of the puzzle of Wuhan's "two vertical and two horizontal" high-speed railway skeleton begins to be embedded. In 5 years, when this direct line is integrated into the national eight vertical and eight horizontal network, the spatial and temporal distance between Wuhan and the Yangtze River Delta and Chengdu Chongqing regions will be greatly compressed, and the hub position of the nine province thoroughfare will shine brighter between the Greater Bay Area and the Beijing Tianjin Hebei region.Editor/Cheng Liting