双语科技百科(近现代成就) 第115期:京九铁路
Jingjiu Railway
Jngjiu Railway (also known as Beijing-Kowloon Railway) connects Beijing West Station in Beijing to Shenzhen Station in Shenzhen, Guang-dong Province. It then follows the rail-link between Shenzhen to the special admin-strative region of Hong Kong to Hung Hom Station ( Kowloon Station) in Kowloon. It is a dual-track truction began in February opened in 1996, connecting Beijing and Kowloon through Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi and Guangdong, with a length of 2397 kilometers. Within Hong Kong, it shares the same pair of tracks with the East Rail Line (formerly British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway).
京九铁路（北京——九龙铁路）北起北京西站，跨越京、津、冀、鲁、豫、皖、鄂、赣、粤九省市的98个市县，南至深圳，连接香港九龙，全长2397千米。京九铁路1993年4月20日全线正式开工，于1995年11月16日全线铺通，1996年9月1日通车。京九铁路香港段，港称九广东铁，前称九广铁路（英段）。Located between Jinghu Railway ( Beijing-Shanghai) and Jingguang Railway ( Beijing-Guangzhou) , it was built to alleviate the congested Jingguang Railway, and to foster development in the areas to the east of Jingguang Railway.
位于京沪、京广铁路之间的京九铁路的开通运营，不仅缓解了京九铁路的运输压力，也加快京广铁路沿线地区脱贫致富。
