On December 26, 2021, Qufu Heze zhuangzhai section of Rilan high speed railway was put into operation. As the Huimin line and happiness line connecting the whole Yimeng old revolutionary base area, the first spring festival transportation after the opening of the new line has attracted extensive attention. During the Spring Festival, Heze citizens can reach the provincial capital Jinan as soon as 1 hour and 23 minutes. The convenient transportation makes everyone’s travel enthusiasm higher and higher, and the tasks of high-speed railway drivers are busier and busier.
During the Spring Festival transportation in 2022, Kong Xiangpei, the “ace driver” who has spent 10 spring festival transportation on the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co.Ltd(601816) line and participated in the joint commissioning and test of 8 high-speed railway lines such as Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co.Ltd(601816) and Jiqing high-speed railway, was also transferred to Rilan high-speed railway to take the new line. As the Spring Festival in the year of the tiger is approaching, the reporter of dazhong.com · poster goes deep into the front line of railway transportation during the Spring Festival and reveals the unknown efforts and persistence behind the Rilan high-speed railway
during the Spring Festival transportation this year, he took a young team to send passengers home safely
Before the 2022 Spring Festival transportation, Kong Xiangpei received two unexpected tasks: to be on duty during the Spring Festival transportation; Take every driver on the Jalan high-speed railway.
The reporter learned that during the Spring Festival transportation this year, 16 pairs of EMUs will be operated on the Rilan high-speed railway. In the face of factors such as the opening of the new line and the sharp increase in the number of EMUs, as a person with outstanding business skills and the most familiar with the line, Kong Xiangpei has become an important candidate for the driver on duty and the best candidate for the training teachers of the crew.
As he has been running on this route for three months, Kong Xiangpei didn’t bother to take this route, but how to take each driver well made Kong Xiangpei work hard.
In order to let each driver master the line requirements as soon as possible, Kong Xiang took each driver on duty in batches to look back and forth in this section. Every day, he goes back and forth six times in this section, driving nearly 2000 kilometers. During this period, he will point out in detail each slope and phase separation section on the line. Watching him know everything about each line environment, the flight attendants jokingly called him a “living map” on Rilan high-speed railway.
In addition to understanding the line conditions, it is more important to improve the smooth operation level of the crew. There are seven stations on this 198.6km line. Due to the close distance between stations, how to find a balance between acceleration and deceleration and ensure the smooth operation between stations is a difficult problem faced by drivers. Kong Xiangpei took out a thick operation essentials recorded during his joint commissioning and test and explained them to each steward in detail to ensure that each steward can master the operation requirements of the whole line.
In addition, Kong Xiangpei also stipulated that during the Spring Festival transportation, as long as it was his turn to take a rest, he would board the car to help take the bus. As Kong Xiangpei’s business skills are very outstanding, his help has been widely welcomed by the flight attendants. Every time when helping the crew, Kong Xiangpei will take a break in the steward’s work room to point out his shortcomings and areas that can be improved. Kong Xiangpei has repeatedly emphasized many practical contents that cannot be touched in theoretical learning, such as a series of driving “secrets” such as benchmarking skills and coping with bad weather, and Kong Xiangpei has given them all. Many flight attendants say that his help is a business training course. Every time you listen, you will get different results.
Three months after , he took the joint commissioning and test driver team to ensure the safe opening of the new line
On August 30, 2021, Kong Xiangpei received the task of joint commissioning and test of Heze zhuangzhai section of Rilan high speed railway. Unlike in the past, the time of this joint commissioning and test is only three months.
In these three months, they will test 12 major items and more than 500 minor items. Moreover, because the lines in the test section are complex, they will also use the “skylight” time for comprehensive detection of the train’s night rest to carry out the night test. In order to ensure close cooperation between different types of work, they must operate in strict accordance with the timetable, and the operation time is accurate to seconds.
Facing the new problems, Kong Xiang spent a whole week combing out the effective test data from the complex data and firmly imprinting them in his mind. At the same time, combined with his driving experience, he also made a manipulation prompt card. The flight attendants participating in the joint commissioning and joint test only need to press the card to ensure the smooth progress of the joint commissioning and joint test.
However, the process of joint commissioning and test is not plain sailing. The day before they hit the maximum test speed of 385 kilometers per hour, a round of heavy rain came unexpectedly.
In the face of unexpected heavy rain, Kong Xiangpei immediately organized the technical backbone of the team to calculate the key points of operation under heavy rain conditions, and discussed and demonstrated with maintenance experts overnight… The next day, the heavy rain continued, but all comprehensive detection trains successfully completed the test task of the day. The data he calculated realized the “zero error” of accelerating braking at 385 kilometers per hour under heavy rain, which has become a new teaching material for safe driving in bad weather.
When talking about the Jalan high-speed rail line, what impressed Kong Xiangpei most was the day when the western section of the Jalan high-speed rail line was opened on December 26 this year. Kong Xiangpei told reporters: “at that time, some local and surrounding passengers in Heze were full of happy smiles and took pictures with the EMU. At that time, another passenger took a picture with me and said, ‘your railway workers have worked hard and brought us convenience to travel’. I was both happy and warm in my heart at that time.”
During the 10 years of , he witnessed the high-speed railway line from only one to a high-speed railway interchange
As the “ace test pilot” in everyone’s mind, people often ask Kong Xiang how he felt about participating in the joint commissioning and joint test for the first time. He said that in 2011, Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway Co.Ltd(601816) joint commissioning and test team was the first joint commissioning and test team in China, which was also his first time to participate in joint commissioning and test. This joint commissioning and trial has opened a new door to him. During this period, the joint commissioning and test team ran out of the first speed of China’s high-speed railway, demonstrated the strength of China’s high-speed railway to the world, and shocked Kong Xiangpei who experienced the scene. He was proud of being a Chinese high-speed railway driver.
Later, Kong Xiangpei successively participated in the joint commissioning and test of six lines, including Qingrong intercity railway, Qinglian railway and Jiqing high-speed railway. He knows every high-speed railway in Shandong like the back of his hand. He also watched as the high-speed railway line changed from a high-speed railway interchange. Some people say that the viaduct is a symbol of urbanization, and the high-speed railway overpass passing up and down makes him deeply feel the rapid development of the railway and the growing strength of the motherland.
For 15 years, he stuck to his original intention and always moved forward
Kong Xiangpei fell in love with this feeling from the first time he operated the locomotive independently. When you are in the driver’s cab, you can sit down completely. He felt that the train belonged to him alone, and he was responsible for everyone on board.
In 2006, Kong Xiangpei, who had a train dream, got the driver’s license of EMU and became the youngest EMU driver in China at that time. So far, he still remembers a rhetorical question from the examiner during the interview of EMU drivers: “at present, I have not seen a EMU driver under the age of 30. You are only 24 years old. Why do you make me believe that you are capable of driving the fastest train in China?” This sentence made Kong Xiangpei, who refused to admit defeat, firm his determination to be the best driver and drive the best train in China.
To this end, he became a regular guest of the model worker’s studio in the workshop. A series of achievements to ensure passengers’ comfort, such as “low-speed inertial benchmarking method” and “EMU remote control removal”, were put forward by him, and the awards of the whole road and the overall situation were won one after another.
On June 25, 2021, Kong Xiangpei also took on the duty of “Ruilong Zhixing”. When he walked out of the cab, many passengers cast envious eyes on him, and some passengers specially ran to the front of the car to take a group photo with the new Fuxing. He felt that there was nothing wrong with his persistence. Driving the best bullet train and being the best driver were his lifelong dream and pursuit.
