Line 9 (Shanghai Metro) Explained

Native Name:	上海地铁9号线
Native Name Lang:	zh
Other Name:	R4 (planned name) Shensong line
Type:	Rapid transit
System:	Shanghai Metro
Status:	Operational
Locale:	Pudong Huangpu, Xuhui, Minhang and Songjiang districts, Shanghai, China
Stations:	35
Routes:	Mainline: ↔ AM Peak: ↔ Partial Mainline: ↔
Daily Ridership:	1.288 million (2019 peak)^[1]
Owner:	Shanghai Rail Transit Shensong Line Development Co., Ltd.
Operator:	Shanghai No. 1 Metro Operation Co. Ltd.
Character:	Underground(Jiuting to Caolu), and Elevated(Songjiang South Railway Station to Sijing)
Depot:	Jiuting Depot; Jinqiao parking lot Caolu parking lot (planned)
Stock:	104 Class A 6-car trains
Linelength:	63.82NaN2
Tracks:	2
Electrification:	Overhead lines (1500 volts)
Speed:	800NaN0 Average speed: 39.10NaN0
Signalling:	Thales’ SelTracTM CBTC

Line 9 is a southwest-northeast line of the Shanghai Metro network. The line runs from in Songjiang District to in Pudong. The line is colored

light blue on system maps.

History

In the initial planning of Line 9, the entire line was from Fengjing to Chongming Island. Later, the plan to extend to Fengjing was cancelled, and the section to Chongming Island was changed to Chongming line.

The first phase of Line 9, from to stations, opened on December 29, 2007. It uses the Bombardier Movia trains which were lended to line 1.

Line 9 did not directly connect to the rest of the Shanghai Metro network until the opening of the Line 9 portion of the station on December 28, 2008.^[2] The station is an interchange between lines 3 and 4. A shuttle bus conveyed passengers between Guilin Road and Yishan Road stations until construction was completed.

In December 2009, the second phase of line 9 (from to) was completed, providing passengers with a direct link from Songjiang District in the west to Pudong in the east without having to transfer to other lines.

On April 7, 2010, the extension to Middle Yanggao Road Station was completed.

On December 30, 2012, the extension from Songjiang New City to Songjiang South Railway Station was opened.

On December 30, 2017, the line's east extension, consisting of 9 stations from Middle Yanggao Road to Caolu, entered operation.^[3]

Segment	Commencement	Opened	Length	Station(s)	Name	Investment
Songjiang Xincheng — Guilin Road	31 Oct 2002	29 Dec 2007	29.0132NaN2	12	Phase 1 (initial section)	¥19 billion
Guilin Road — Yishan Road	31 Oct 2002	28 Dec 2008	1.6872NaN2	1	Phase 1 (final section)
Yishan Road — Century Avenue	31 Aug 2005	31 Dec 2009	11.4912NaN2	9	Phase 2 (initial section)	¥8.94 billion
Century Avenue — Middle Yanggao Road	31 Aug 2005	7 Apr 2010	2.4352NaN2	1	Phase 2 (final section)
Songjiang South — Songjiang Xincheng	15 Oct 2009	30 Dec 2012	6.4742NaN2	3	Phase 3 (southern section)	¥2.8 billion
Middle Yanggao Road — Caolu	11 Aug 2011	30 Dec 2017	14.0992NaN2	9	Phase 3 (eastern section)	¥12.713 billion

Stations

Service routes

M - Mainline: ↔ AM - AM Peak line: ↔ P - Partial Mainline: ↔
●						0.00		0	Songjiang	30 Dec 2012^[4]	Underground Island
●						1.79		3
●						1.73	3.53	6
●						1.58	5.15	9		29 Dec 2007^[5]
●						2.64	7.75	12			Elevated Side
●						3.38	11.13	17
●	●	●				2.20	13.34	20			Elevated Island
●	●	●				3.86	17.21	24			Elevated Side
●	●	●				6.24	23.45	31			Underground Island
●	●	●				2.26	25.72	34	Minhang		Underground Side & Island
●	●	●				1.30	27.02	37			Underground Island
●	●	●				1.88	28.90	40
●	●	●				1.85	30.76	43
●	●	●				1.33	32.09	45	Xuhui
●	●	●				2.03	34.12	48			Underground Side & Island
●	●	●				1.68	35.81	51		28 Dec 2008^[6]	Underground Island
●	●	●				1.50	37.32	53		31 Dec 2009^[7]
●	●	●				1.38	38.70	56
●	●	●				1.06	39.77	58
●	●	●				0.87	40.64	60	Huangpu
●	●	●				0.84	41.48	62			Underground Side
●	●	●				0.94	42.43	64			Underground Island
●	●	●				1.47	43.90	66
●	●	●				2.39	46.30	70	Pudong
●	●	●				0.97	47.28	72
●	●	●				2.43	49.72	75		7 April 2010^[8]
●	●					1.06	50.78	77		30 Dec 2017^[9]
●	●					2.12	52.90	80
●	●					2.30	55.21	84
●	●					1.54	56.75	86
●	●					1.69	58.45	89
●						1.02	59.47	91
●						1.71	61.19	93
●						1.12	62.31	96
●						1.50	63.82	98
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Important stations

• - the collection of several top universities in Shanghai, including Donghua University, Shanghai International Studies University, East China University of Politics and Law, Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade are located there.
• - serving Sheshan Hill, a tourist and pilgrimage destination with the Sheshan Observatory and the Sheshan Basilica.
• - serving the old town of Qibao.
• - serving the high-tech park Caohejing.
• - one of the busiest metro stations in Shanghai, with shopping malls and office buildings in the vicinity; interchange with lines 1 and 11.
• - a major interchange station on four lines - Interchange with lines 2, 4 and 6.

Future expansion

The east section is planned to extend one station to Caolu Railway station.^[10]

Station name change

• On 28 October 2006, Dongfang Road was renamed as the after station renovation for line 2 and the opening of line 4 (before line 9 began serving the station).

Headways

		-	- (PM peak) / (AM peak)	(PM peak) / (AM peak) -
Monday - Friday (Working Days)
	7:30–9:00	Eastbound: Average 3 min 50 sec Westbound: About 5 min	Eastbound: Average 1 min and 50 sec Westbound: About 2 min and 30 sec	Eastbound: About 5 min and 30 sec Westbound: About 5 min
Off-peak	9:00–17:00	About 5 min and 30 sec
PM peak	17:00–19:30	Eastbound: About 5 min Westbound: About 4 min and 30 sec	Eastbound: About 3 min Westbound: About 2 min and 30 sec	Both directions: About 5 min
Other hours		About 8 - 10 min
Saturday and Sunday (Weekends)
Peak	8:00–20:00	About 5 min
Other hours	Before 8:00 After 20:00	About 6 - 10 min
Extended operation (Friday and Saturday)
	After 22:55		15 - 20 minutes

Technology

Rolling Stock

Fleet numbers	Manufacturer	Time of manufac- turing	Class	No of car	Assembly	Rolling stock	Number	Notes
60		2004–2005	A	6	Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc	09A01	0901-0910 (090011-090601)	Line 9	Seconded from line 1. Converted from AC04 in 2007; former number 011751-012341.
246		2008–2010	A	6	Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc	09A02	0911-0951 (090611-093061)	Line 9	5 trains (numbers 0942–0945, 0948) used on the Expo line (trainset number 1301-1305) for the World Expo in 2010, returned to line 9 afterwards. Original name: AC09. Same as 07A01 and 12A01 (but different painting).
216		2016–2018	A	6	Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc	09A03	0953-0988 (093131-095281)	Line 9	Same as 07A02 (but different painting).
102		2018–2020	A	6	Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc	09A04	09089-09105 (095291-096301)	Line 9

Former Rolling Stock

Fleet numbers	Manufacturer	Time of manufac- turing	Class	No of car	Assembly	Rolling stock	Number	Notes
6		2007	A	6	Tc+Mp+M+M+Mp+Tc	09ASY	0952 (093071-093121)	Line 9	On 20 December 2011, it was reassigned to be a special training vehicle.

One train (0952) manufactured in 2007 was mainly debugged for experimental purposes. It began trial operation with passengers on April 25, 2009, and will no longer be operational in 2010. On December 20, 2011, the vehicle was retired from line 9 and became a special training vehicle. It was transferred to the original of line 2 to the newly built training line for subway staff training.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Metro breaks records . 2019-03-09 . Shanghai Metro. 2019-03-09 . zh .
2. http://www.exploremetro.com/blog/line-9-gets-linked-up ExploreMetro Blog: Line 9 gets linked up
3. Web site: Shanghai Urban Rail Transit recent construction plan (2010-2020). 2015-01-08.
4. Web site: http://sh.house.sina.com.cn/scan/2013-01-30/09231887170.shtml. zh:9号线延伸南段开通 松江老城轨交房130万起. 2013-01-30. Sina News.
5. Web site: http://sh.xinmin.cn/minsheng/2007/12/26/1002988.html. zh:上海轨交9号线12月29日开通试运营. 2007-12-26. 新民网. 2016-07-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304130846/http://sh.xinmin.cn/minsheng/2007/12/26/1002988.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
6. Web site: http://dfdaily.eastday.com/d/20081228/u1a517633.html. zh:9号线宜山路站今日通车. 2008-12-28. 东方早报. 2016-07-23. 2016-08-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20160807181813/http://dfdaily.eastday.com/d/20081228/u1a517633.html. dead.
7. Web site: http://news.qq.com/a/20091228/002084.htm. zh:上海轨交9号线2期11号线北段1期12月31日开通. 2009-12-28. Tencent (QQ) News.
8. Web site: http://www.shmetro.com/node49/201004/con103515.htm. zh:4月7日起轨道交通1、9号线徐家汇站实现站内换乘 9号线东端终点站杨高中路站同步开启运营. 2010-04-04. Shanghai Metro Official Site.
9. Web site: http://service.shmetro.com/en/yygg/1082.htm. zh:Soft Operation of Line 17 (Hongqiao Railway Station – Oriental Land), Phase 3 Project of Line 9 (Mid Yanggao Road - Caolu) on Dec. 30, 2017. Shanghai Metro. Shanghai Shentong Metro Group Co., Ltd.. 2017-12-29. 2017-12-29.
10. https://ghzyj.sh.gov.cn/ghgs/20200110/0032-425345.html Public announcement on the special planning of Metro Line 9 (Middle Yanggao Road Station - Caolu Railway Station).