China’s high-speed rail ambitions are under fresh scrutiny after a newly built track collapsed in heavy rains.
Workers on Tuesday were scrambling to fix more than 7km of a line that sank in a flood-prone part of central Hubei province. Initial reports had said that the collapse only affected a 300m stretch.
The water damage was the latest in a string of problems to have hit China’s high-speed rail programme, once a source of national pride, over the past year. Concerns that quality had been sacrificed in the country’s rush to build up its rail network were tragically highlighted when a bullet train crash killed 40 people last July.
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