From hard connections to virtual connections, China's railway heavy load transport is entering the era of intelligent grouping.

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21/01/2026
On the morning of January 21st, the Baoshen Railway in Inner Mongolia staged a "hardcore test": China's independently developed 35,000-ton heavy-load group train completed the world's first automatic formation driving of heavy-load trains. Seven 5,000-ton freight trains, with a total length of 6 kilometers, worked together side by side through wireless signals, achieving the world's first multiple freight trains to drive in coordination without relying on mechanical couplings, only using wireless signals.