1,500 workers build railway in 8.5 hrs

Chinese workers have demonstrated their incredible efficiency yet again, report agencies.
In just eight and a half hours, over 1,500 workers completed the installation of a new railway line as part of a train station upgrade in east China's Fujian Province.
Construction began at 6:30pm Friday and by 3:00am Saturday, workers had completed the removal of old tracks, the laying of new tracks, and the installation of railroad switches at the station in the city of Longyan, according to Xinhua news agency.
Seven trains and 23 excavators were used in the project.
An aerial video released by Pear shows how the construction workers connected three major railroads - the Ganlong Railway, Ganruilong Railway and Zhanglong Railway - with the new Nanlong Railway.
The newly-built line, linking Longyan with the city of Nanping in mountainous western Fujian, will begin operation at the end of 2018.
The project was finished so quickly because the workers had been arranged into seven units to tackle different tasks simultaneously, said Zhan Daosong, a deputy manager at China Tiesiju Civil Engineering Group, the country's main railroad builder.
With a maximum designed speed of 200 kilometers per hour, the high-speed rail line will cut the travel time between the two cities from seven hours to just 90 minutes.
The 246-km Nanping-Longyan railway line will include stops in Shaxian, Sanming, Yong'an and Zhangping.