Builders from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group work on casting beams on Fulaishan Station Viaduct on June 25, marking new progress in building the Longkou-Yantai Railway in Shandong province. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

As the country is expanding the operating mileage of railways, constructors from China Railway No 4 Engineering Group are making steady progress in building a new railway in East China's Shandong province.

While building the Longkou-Yantai Railway, CREC4 ushered in a new milestone on June 28 when they finished the topping-out of the main structure of the Guxian South railway station — part of the No 2 bid in the 46.6-kilometer line.

Three days earlier, it finished the cast-in-place beams on Fulaishan Station Viaduct, marking the successful conclusion of the whole line's cast-in-place beams construction and the full completion of the bridge superstructure for the project.

CREC4 staffer Liu Chenyong said the CREC4 Seventh Engineering Co Ltd is constructing 34.6 kilometers of the railway — the first urban rail transit line in Shandong, covering 18 kilometers of roadbed, 16 bridges, 4.62 kilometers of tunnels, 10 station buildings, 698 precast T-shaped beams, and 44 cast-in-place beams, with a total concrete pouring volume of 13,193 cubic meters.