Line 8 (Shanghai Metro)

Line 8
An AC07 train at Laoximen station on line 8.
Overview
Other name(s)M8 (planned name);
Yangpu line (Chinese: 杨浦线)
Native name上海地铁8号线
StatusOperational
OwnerShanghai Rail Transit Yangpu Line Development Co., Ltd.
LocaleMinhang, Pudong, Huangpu, Jing'an, Hongkou and Yangpu districts, Shanghai, China
Termini
Stations30
Service
TypeUrban rail transit in China Rapid transit
SystemShanghai Metro Shanghai Metro
ServicesMainline: Shiguang Road ↔ Shendu Highway
Core: Middle Yanji Road ↔ Oriental Sports Center (not operating during working day peak)
Peak: Middle Yanji Road ↔ Shendu Highway (only operating during working day peak)
Operator(s)Shanghai No. 4 Metro Operation Co. Ltd.
Depot(s)Yinhang Depot;
Pujiang Town parking lot
Rolling stock90 Class C (28 6-car & 62 7-car) trains
Daily ridership1.221 million (2019 peak)[1]
History
CommencedDecember 21, 2001; 22 years ago (2001-12-21)
OpenedDecember 29, 2007; 16 years ago (2007-12-29)
Last extensionJuly 5, 2009; 15 years ago (2009-07-05)
Technical
Line length37.4 km (23.24 mi)
Number of tracks2
CharacterUnderground and elevated
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
ElectrificationOverhead lines (1500 volts)
Operating speed80 km/h (50 mph)
Average speed 31.0 km/h (19 mph)
SignallingThales’ SelTracTM CBTC
Route map
Route on the Shanghai map:
To scale geographic map:

Line 8 is a north-south line of the Shanghai Metro network. It runs from Shiguang Road, in Yangpu District to Shendu Highway, in Minhang. The line is colored cyan on system maps.

History

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The subway line's first phase began trial operation on September 17, 2007 and officially opened on December 29, 2007, running between Shiguang Road and Yaohua Road. The second phase, from Yaohua Road to Shendu Highway began operation on July 5, 2009.

Two stations opened later than the rest of the line: China Art Museum in September 2012 and Oriental Sports Center opened in April 2011.

On May 4, 2017 it was announced the third phase had been renamed the Pujiang line, and will be a new 6.7 km (4.2 mi) long automated people mover line running from Shendu Highway station to Huizhen Road station. It will use rubber tire Bombardier Innovia APM 300 technology. On January 13 Bombardier delivered the first out of 44 autonomous people movers to Shanghai.[2] It opened on March 31, 2018.

Shanghai Metro Line 8 opening history
Segment Commencement Opened Length Station(s) Name Investment
Shiguang Road — Yaohua Road 21 Dec 2001 29 Dec 2007 23.3 km (14.48 mi) 20 Phase 1 ¥14.493 billion
Yaohua Road — Shendu Highway 27 Dec 2005 5 Jul 2009 14.1 km (8.76 mi) 8 Phase 2 ¥5.332 billion
Oriental Sports Center 12 Apr 2011 Infill station 1
China Art Museum 28 Sep 2012 Infill station 1

Controversy

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Further information: Shanghai Metro § Class C cars

Even though Line 8 is a heavy rail rapid transit line, Class C trains designed for light metro lines consisting of 6 or 7 cars are being used throughout the line. Due to the trains relatively smaller loading gauge and capacity compared to Class A trains used on other Shanghai Metro lines, the line is extremely crowded. This has caused much doubt among the public in Shanghai Metro's ability to accurately predict passenger flows for future lines.[3] It was revealed that Line 8 originally was forecasted to have a short term daily ridership of 400,000-500,000 people/day, which warrants the use of larger Class A trains on other Shanghai Metro lines. This is not surprising given Line 8 is planned to serve some of Shanghai's densest neighborhoods and several major attractions. However the forecast was revised many times and finally downgraded to 200,000 people/day through "internal negotiation and coordination", which allowed Shanghai Alstom, a company interested in manufacturing and selling Class C trains in Shanghai, to build trains for Line 8.[3] Chief designer Yu Jiakang noted that in addition to short term solutions such as operating 7 car trains and reducing headways, last resort is to rebuild Line 8 as the loading gauges of Class C trains are incompatible with Class C trains. Additionally, parallel relief bus services have started operating.[3] The initial 28 trainsets were 6-car consists. Due to overcrowding, subsequent train purchases (62 sets) were 7-car sets. There was a canceled plan to expand 08C01 stocks from the 6-car sets to 7-car sets.

Stations

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Further information: List of Shanghai Metro stations

Service routes

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Shanghai Metro Line 8 service routes
Routes Station name Connections Distance Location Open-
ing 		Plat-
form[4]
M C P English Chinese km min
● Shiguang Road 市光路 0.00 0.00 0 Yangpu 29 Dec
2007[5] 		Underground Side
● Nenjiang Road 嫩江路 0.88 0.88 2
● Xiangyin Road 翔殷路 1.07 1.95 5
● Huangxing Park 黄兴公园 1.04 2.99 7
● ● ● Middle Yanji Road 延吉中路 0.85 3.84 9 Underground Island
● ● ● Huangxing Road 黄兴路 1.41 5.25 11
● ● ● Jiangpu Road 江浦路  18  1.04 6.29 14
● ● ● Anshan Xincun 鞍山新村 0.88 7.17 16
● ● ● Siping Road 四平路  10  0.81 7.98 17 Hongkou
● ● ● Quyang Road 曲阳路 1.07 9.05 20 Underground Side
● ● ● Hongkou Football Stadium 虹口足球场  3  1.47 10.52 22 Underground Island
● ● ● North Xizang Road 西藏北路 1.27 11.79 25 Jing'an
● ● ● Zhongxing Road 中兴路 1.23 13.02 27
● ● ● Qufu Road 曲阜路  12  1.19 14.21 30
● ● ● People's Square 人民广场  1   2  1.18 15.39 32 Huangpu Underground Island & Side
● ● ● Dashijie 大世界  14  0.74 16.13 34 Underground Island
● ● ● Laoximen 老西门  10  0.96 17.09 36
● ● ● Lujiabang Road 陆家浜路  9  0.85 17.94 38
● ● ● South Xizang Road 西藏南路  4  1.12 19.06 40
● ● ● China Art Museum 中华艺术宫 2.11 21.17 43 Pudong 28 Sept
2012[6]
● ● ● Yaohua Road 耀华路  7  0.90 22.07 46 29 Dec
2007[5] 		Underground Side
● ● ● Chengshan Road 成山路  13  0.90 22.97 48 5 July
2009[7] 		Underground Island
● ● ● Yangsi 杨思 1.13 24.10 50
● ● ● Oriental Sports Center 东方体育中心  6   11  1.67 25.77 53 12 April
2011[8]
● ● Lingzhao Xincun 凌兆新村 1.83 27.60 57 5 July
2009[7]
● ● Luheng Road 芦恒路 2.57 30.17 60 Minhang
● ● Pujiang Town 浦江镇 2.61 32.78 64 Elevated Island
● ● Jiangyue Road 江月路 1.39 34.17 66
● ● Lianhang Road 联航路 1.20 35.37 69
● ● Shendu Highway 沈杜公路  Pujiang  Bus rapid transitFengpu BRT 1.36 36.73 71


Important stations

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  • Hongkou Football Stadium - At this station, passengers can transfer to line 3. Previously they must exit and re-enter the station, but a new linkway has been built via the shopping center.
  • People's Square - Passengers can interchange to lines 1 and 2. This is also a very important station, as it is located at a major financial district as well as near many tourist attractions.
  • South Xizang Road: The first platform to platform interchange station in the Shanghai Metro network. Interchange with line 4.

Station name change

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Headways

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Shanghai Metro Line 8 headway[9]
Time Shiguang Road -
Middle Yanji Road		 Middle Yanji Road -
Oriental Sports Center		 Oriental Sports Center -
Shendu Highway
Monday - Friday (Working Days)
AM peak 7:15–9:20 About 3 mins and 30 sec About 2 min and 15 sec
Off-peak 9:20–17:00 About 8 min About 4 min About 8 min
PM peak 17:00–19:20 About 5 min and 30 sec About 2 min and 45 sec
Other
hours
Before 7:30
After 20:00
About 10 - 12 min About 5 - 6 min About 10 - 12 min
Saturday and Sunday (Weekends)
Peak 8:00–19:00 3 min and 40 sec -
7 min and 20 sec		 About 3 min and 40 sec 3 min and 40 sec -
7 min and 20 sec
Other
hours
Before 8:00
After 19:00
About 10 - 12 min About 5 - 6 min About 10 - 12 min

Technology

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Signalling

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From June 19 to July 1, 2009, during the second phase of line 8 signal commissioning (upgrade from fully manual driving to CBTC semi-automatic driving), the first phase of operation efficiency was unstable, and trains stopped frequently. As a result, the driving time was much longer than normal, resulting in passenger congestion and seven consecutive large-scale failures. After investigation by the Shanghai Metro, it was found that the main reason for the stoppage of the train on Line 8 was that the communication transmission time set by the CBTC on-board software was too short, which caused the train to transmit too much data to the central computer, and the train was unable to accurately receive wireless signals. On July 2, 2009, after all the on-board software of the train was updated to resolve this issue.[10]

Rolling Stock

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The designed speed of the train is 80 km/h, the length is 19.49 meters (Tc)/19.44 meters (Mp, M) (compare to longer, more common Class A carriages at 23 meters), and the width is 2.6 meters (Class A carriages are wider at 3.0 meters).

Shanghai Metro Line 8 rolling stock
Fleet numbers Manufacturer Time of
manufac-
turing		 Class No
of
car		 Assembly[i] Rolling stock Number Notes
168 Alstom France (0801)
SATCO[ii] (0802-0828)		 2006-2008 C[iii] 6 Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc 08C01 0801-0828
(080011-081681)		 6 cars (080011-080061) built by CAF.
Original name: AC07.
126 CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. 2009-2010 C[iii] 7 Tc+Mp+M+M+M+Mp+Tc 08C02 0829-0846
(081691-082941)		 [11] Original name: AC15A.
140 CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. 2010-2011 C[iii] 7 Tc+Mp+M+M+M+Mp+Tc 08C03 0847-0866
(082951-083341)		 [11] Original name: AC15B.
168 CNR Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd. 2018-2020 C[iii] 7 Tc+Mp+M+M+M+Mp+Tc 08C04 08067-08090
(083351-085301)
  1. ^ Tc: Trailer with cab; Mp: EMU with pantograph; M: EMU without pantograph.
  2. ^ SATCO (Shanghai Alstom Transportation Equipment Co., Ltd.) is a joint venture between Alstom Metropolis and Shanghai Electric.
  3. ^ a b c d Class C carriage: 19.44m in length, 2.6m in width and 3.8m in height; Capacity: about 200 people.
  • 08C01 train
    08C01 train
  • 08C02 train
    08C02 train

References

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  1. ^ "Metro breaks records" (in Chinese). Shanghai Metro 163 Official. 2019-03-09. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
  2. ^ "Bombardier delivers automated people mover to Shanghai Shentong Metro". www.eurotransportmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
  3. ^ a b c 客流预测报告做出前内定小型车. Sina. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  4. ^ 乘车指南 > Station信息. Shanghai Metro Official Site. Retrieved 2015-12-17. Instructions: 点击相应线路，选择Station，点击"站层图"可查看相应Station的站台结构。
  5. ^ a b "大杨浦"市民25分钟到人民广场 8号线29日试运营. Tencent (QQ) News. 2007-12-25.
  6. ^ 9月28日起8号线中华艺术宫站投入运营. Sina News. 2012-09-26.
  7. ^ a b 沪8号线二期5日开通 浦江镇至人民广场仅半小时. 东方网. 2009-07-03.
  8. ^ 济阳路站更名为东方体育中心站. Sohu. 2011-05-08.
  9. ^ "Schedule" (in Chinese). Shanghai Metro. 2021-07-07. Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  10. ^ The second phase of the trial operation of Line 8 tomorrow will find and eliminate the cause of the previous operational disorder. (originally published in "Youth Daily"). news.xinmin.cn. 2009-07-04.
  11. ^ a b 上海地铁8号线车辆. 中车长春轨道客车股份有限公司 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2020-03-20.
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