Line 6 (Beijing Subway)

Line 6
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An 8-car Line 6 train
Overview
Other name(s)	M6 (planned name)
Type	Rapid transit
System	Beijing Subway
Termini	Haidian Wuluju Lucheng
Stations	27
Daily ridership	601,900 (2014 Avg.) 958,000 (2016 Peak)
Operation
Opened	30 December 2012
Operator(s)	Beijing Mass Transit Railway Operation Corp., Ltd
Character	Underground
Technical
Line length	42.8 km (26.6 mi)
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Electrification	1500 V Overhead line
Operating speed	100 km/h
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Line 6 of the Beijing Subway (Chinese: 北京地铁6号线; pinyin: běijīng dìtiě liùhào xiàn) is a rapid transit rail line in central Beijing. The line currently runs parallel to the north of Line 1 and the Batong Line, from Wulu in Haidian to Lucheng in Chaoyang District. It serves important residential areas such as Changying, Chaoqing, and Dingfuzhuang, in addition to important commercial and business areas such as Financial Street and Beijing CBD. It is planned that the line will be extended by 2015 to Shijingshan to the west. With this extension, it is expected to be 50.67 km long with 32 stations.

Line 6 uses Beijing Subway's highest capacity rolling stock to date featuring 8-car size B train sets accommodating 1,960 people, compared to the standard 6 cars found on other lines except the Airport Express line which has 4-car train sets. It is also the fastest in the subway system, with trains capable of reaching the speed of 100 km/h compared to 80 km/h on other lines. Stations to the east of the 3rd Ring Road to Tongzhou are more widely spaced, the furthest being 4 km apart. These factors allows passengers to travel the whole line in just 48 minutes. Line 6 also has the deepest station in the network, Dongsi Station, which is 34 meters underground. The line uses 1500 V overhead catenary as opposed to 750 V third rail used on other lines. Some of the station arrangements where the first of its kind in Beijing. Beijing's first split platform station and stations equipped with passing tracks, opened on Line 6.

Line 6 was originally planned to be an east–west line passing under Chaoyang Avenue continuing straight westward. However this alignment will make the central section of Line 6 tunnel extremely close to the Forbidden City. Issues of historic conservation and protection were raised against the proposed alignment. To avoid damaging cultural relics in the area, the entire western and middle section of line 6 was shifted 1.5 km northward to Ping'an Avenue, forming the route of Line 6 today. Line 6 started construction on December 8, 2007 as one of the "horizontal" east–west lines of the "three-ring, four horizontal and five vertical and seven radial" Beijing Subway masterplan.