Line 6 (Guangzhou Metro)

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Line 6
A Line 6 train
Overview
Other name(s)M7 (7 lines plan name)
M6 (2000 plan name)
Luogang line (萝岗线)
StatusOperational
OwnerCity of Guangzhou
LocaleHuangpu, Tianhe, Yuexiu, Liwan, and Baiyun districts
Guangzhou, Guangdong
Termini
Stations32
Service
TypeRapid transit
SystemGuangzhou Metro
Services2
Operator(s)Guangzhou Metro Corporation
Rolling stockCRRC Qingdao Sifang/Kawasaki Heavy Industries Metro cars[1]
Daily ridership850,000 (2018 Avg.)[2]
1.153 million (2019 Peak)[3]
History
OpenedDecember 28, 2013; 10 years ago (2013-12-28)
Technical
Line length41.7 km (25.9 mi)
CharacterUnderground/Elevated (Three stations)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
ElectrificationThird rails, 1,500 V DC
Route map

Legend
future extension
Luogang Depot
 Xiangxue
 THP1   THP2 
 7 
Left arrow to Yanshan
to Meidi Dadao Right arrow
 Luogang
 7 
Connection to Line 21
 Suyuan
 21 
 21 
Left arrow to Zengcheng Square
to Yuancun Right arrow
 Xiangang
Jinfeng
Huangbei
Gaotangshi
Kemulang
Guangfo circular IR
 Longdong
Future route split
 Botanical Garden
Changban
Tianhe Coach Terminal
 3 
 3 
Left arrow to Airport North (Terminal 2)
to Panyu Square Right arrow
 Yantang
 3 
 18 
Left arrow to Huachengjie
to Wanqingsha Right arrow
Tianpingjia
 11 
Left arrow anti-clockwise
clockwise Right arrow
Guangshen Railway
 Shahe
 11 
 Shaheding
Huanghuagang
Ouzhuang
 5 
 5 
LowerLeft arrow to Jiaokou
to Wenchong Right arrow
 13 
Left arrow to Chaoyang
to Xinsha Right arrow
 1  Right arrow to Guangzhou East Railway Station
 Dongshankou
 1 
 10  Right arrow to Tianhe Coach Terminal
 12  Right arrow to Higher Education Mega Center South
 10  Right arrow to Xilang
 Donghu
 10   12 
 Tuanyida Square
Beijing Lu
Haizhu Square
 2 
 2 
Left arrow to Jiahewanggang
to Guangzhou South Railway Station Right arrow
 Yide Lu
Cultural Park
 8 
 8 
Left arrow to Jiaoxin
to Wanshengwei Right arrow
 Huangsha
 1 
 1  Right arrow to Xilang
 Ruyifang
 11 
 11 
Left arrow clockwise
anti-clockwise Right arrow
 22 
Left arrow to Airport North (Terminal 2)
to Panyu Square Right arrow
 5  UpperLeft arrow to Wenchong
Pearl River
Guangmao Railway
 Tanwei
 5 
 5  Right arrow to Jiaokou
Connection to Line 5
 Hesha
Baisha River
 Shabei
Hengsha
S81 Guangzhou City Ring Expressway
 Xunfenggang
 12 
Jingguang HSR
Xunfenggang Stabling Yard
This diagram:
Line 6
Simplified Chinese广州地铁6号线
Traditional Chinese廣州地鐵6號線

Line 6 of the Guangzhou Metro runs from Liwan District to Huangpu District. It starts at Xunfenggang and ends at Xiangxue, interchanging with Line 5 at Tanwei and Ouzhuang; Line 1 at Huangsha and Dongshankou; Line 8 at Cultural Park; Line 2 at Haizhu Square; Line 21 at Suyuan; Line 3 at Yantang and Tianhe Coach Terminal. The total length is 41.9 km (26.04 mi) with 32 stations. Line 6 serves densely populated areas including residential communities in Jinshazhou, the pedestrian street in Beijing Lu and wholesale markets in Shahe. Nevertheless, Line 6, which runs four-car trains, has long had a questionable train capacity. The phase one section between Xunfenggang and Changban began to provide service from 28 December 2013 with the exception of Yide Lu and Shahe stations.[4] Yide Lu opened over a year later on 28 January 2015. The second phase of Line 6 from Changban to Xiangxue has been in operation since 28 December 2016. Like Lines 4 and 5, Line 6 is equipped with linear induction motor technology. Line 6's color is maroon.

Opening timeline[edit]

Line 6 drawn to scale.
Segment Commencement Length Station(s) Name
Xunfenggang — Changban 28 December 2013 24.5 km (15.22 mi) 20 Phase 1
Yide Lu 28 January 2015 Infill station 1
Changban — Xiangxue 28 December 2016 17.2 km (10.69 mi) 8 Phase 2
Botanical Garden, Kemulang 28 June 2017 Infill stations 2

Station listing[edit]

Service
routes 		Station
No. 		Station name Connections Distance
km 		Location
English Chinese
● ● 6 01 Xunfenggang 浔峰岗  12  0.00 0.00 Baiyun
● ● 6 02 Hengsha 横沙 0.87 0.87
● ● 6 03 Shabei 沙贝 0.81 1.68
● ● 6 04 Hesha 河沙 2.21 1.89 Liwan
● ● 6 05 Tanwei 坦尾  5  1.09 2.98
● ● 6 06 Ruyifang 如意坊  11  1.86 4.84
● ● 6 07 Huangsha 黄沙  1  1.19 6.03
● ● 6 08 Cultural Park 文化公园  8  0.85 6.88
● ● 6 09 Yide Lu 一德路 0.95 7.83 Yuexiu
● ● 6 10 Haizhu Square 海珠广场  2  0.95 8.78
● ● 6 11 Beijing Lu 北京路 0.56 9.34
● ● 6 12 Tuanyida Square 团一大广场 0.83 10.17
● ● 6 13 Donghu 东湖  10   12  1.15 11.32
● ● 6 14 Dongshankou 东山口  1 
 1.36 12.68
● ● 6 15 Ouzhuang 区庄  5  1.10 13.78
● ● 6 16 Huanghuagang 黄花岗 1.07 14.85
● ● 6 17 Shaheding 沙河顶 0.97 15.82 Tianhe
｜ ｜ 6 18 Shahe 沙河  11  1.03 16.85
● ● 6 19 Tianpingjia 天平架 1.10 17.95
● ● 6 20 Yantang 燕塘  3  0.64 18.59
● ● 6 21 Tianhe Coach Terminal 天河客运站  3  (until 2025)
 10  (from 2025) 		2.21 20.80
● ● 6 22 Changban 长湴 0.99 21.79
● 6 23 Botanical Garden 植物园 1.89 23.68
● 6 24 Longdong 龙洞 1.74 25.42
● 6 25 Kemulang 柯木塱 1.94 27.36
● 6 26 Gaotangshi 高塘石 1.52 28.88
● 6 27 Huangbei 黄陂 2.42 31.30 Huangpu
● 6 28 Jinfeng 金峰 2.20 33.50
● 6 29 Xiangang 暹岗 1.30 34.80
● 6 30 Suyuan 苏元  21  0.93 35.73
● 6 31 Luogang 萝岗  7 
Civic Square:  THP1  		1.53 37.26
● 6 32 Xiangxue 香雪  THP1   THP2  2.09 39.35

Overcrowding[edit]

Line 6 car with seats removed.

Originally believed to have limited attraction to commuters, Line 6 was intended as an auxiliary light metro line with a projected daily ridership of 428000 two years after opening and 507000 in nine years, These projections assumed the opening year of Line 6 was still 2010 and Guangzhou was less populated. Such projections were in line with ridership of the, at the time, underutilized Lines 1 and 2 prior to 2004. Additionally, the national policy for subway construction at the time was to design for lines to operate shorter but more frequent trains, a policy dubbed "small groups, high density". The Type A designs used in Lines 1 and 2 were abandoned in favor of smaller Type B and L trains.[5] After the newly opened Line 3 with its Type B trains quickly experienced severe overcrowding by 2006, there was large public attention paid to under construction lines following this low design capacity paradigm, particularly on Lines 5 and 6. However, the construction of Line 6 was well underway using the original light metro plan of four car Type L trains, which are even lower in capacity than the trains used in Line 3. A change to longer trains on Line 6 had become unfeasible as it would require modification to stations structures whose construction had been completed.[6] An internal report of Guangzhou Metro also released in 2009 reckoned that using the same six car B-type rolling stock as Line 3 would increase the capacity of Line 6 by 50%. Land expropriation and residence relocation would pose even greater challenges to station expansion as evidenced by severe delays in the construction of the stations of Yide Lu and Shahe.[7] In 2014, one year after opening, daily ridership on Line 6 has grown to 600,000 and continues to increase steadily,[8] peaking at 858,000 passengers on 16 September 2016, a mere two years later.[9] With the opening of Phase II extending the line from Changban to Xiangxue in late 2016 ridership continues to increase, averaging 850,000 passengers per day as of April 2018.[10] Since 2017, daily ridership of Line 6 consistently peaks over 1 million passengers per day during high load periods such as holidays.[3][11][12]

Guangzhou Metro has responded to the crowding by decreasing headways and buying supplementary rolling stock to further increase frequencies.[13] All Line 6 trains had several rows of seats removed to allow for more standees and increase overall capacity.[14] Phase II stations east of Botanical Garden Station were redesigned before stating construction to allow for at least 6 car Type L trains to be used.[15] There are various plans to separate this section of Line 6 to be an independent line, allowing for the use of 6 car trains and diverting passenger traffic away from the central Phase I section Line 6.[16]

Future expansion[edit]

The Third Phase of Line 6 was originally planned to further extend the line east deeper into Zengcheng, terminating at Guanhu station and connect with the Zengcheng Development Zone Station on the Xinbaiguang intercity railway. The extension would be 19 km (11.81 mi) long with provisions to be spun off into an independent line (Line 23). The spun off line was planned to run between Jingxi Nanfang Hospital and Guanhu stations with the central section reusing the Phase II section of Line 6 between Botanical Garden and Xiangxue Stations making use of a provision for interchanging with the rest of Line 6 at Botanical Garden Station.[17] However in 2018, this plan was abandoned and Phase III east extension of Line 6 was folded permanently as the eastern section of Line 23 with the western section of Line 23 will no longer using any Phase II trackage of Line 6, instead heading southwest to Chishajiao Station in Haizhu District. Line 6 Phase III will instead be a short 4 km (2.49 mi) two station extension to Liucun.[18]

In 2019, another proposal to spin off the eastern section of Line 6 east of Botanical Garden Station. This time the new line will take over the eastern section beyond Botanical Garden Station and head south to Canton Tower station. This new line is tentatively named Line 20.[19]

Rolling stock[edit]

Line 6 train interior LCD

As of September 2021, Line 6 is served by 89 sets of four car linear motor trains.[20]

Type Time of manufacturing Series Sets Assembly Notes
Type L 2011–2012 L3 40 Mc+Mp+Mp+Mc First batch by CRRC Qingdao Sifang[21]
Type L 2015–2016 L3 11 Mc+Mp+Mp+Mc Second batch by CRRC Qingdao Sifang[21]
Type L 2019–2021 L6 38 Mcp+M+M+Mcp Manufactured by CRRC Guangdong[22][23][20]

References[edit]

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  5. ^ "六号线日均客流量不到此前预测的6成_南方都市报数字报". epaper.oeeee.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
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  9. ^ 中秋假期广州地铁日均客流730万人次- 新华网. www.gd.xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
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  14. ^ "从头站到尾，6号线能不能重装座位？广州地铁回应了". mvp.leju.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  15. ^ 网易 (2019-05-03). "广州地铁6号线的"痛点"在哪里？". www.163.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  16. ^ "广州地铁6号线长湴至香雪段将成为地铁20号线的组成部分？_腾讯网". xw.qq.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  17. ^ "我不相信！竟有人说，地铁23号线规划发生变化，只延长到香雪公园？". www.sohu.com. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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  20. ^ a b "地铁6号线将配置89列车，数量创广州地铁之最_段后". www.sohu.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  21. ^ a b "广州地铁 全程为你--公司新闻". www.gzmtr.com. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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  23. ^ 中车广东公司. "叮咚！"双十二"提前发货了！". WeChat Official Accounts Platform. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
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