today marks the official start of the 40-day spring festival travel rush. in the early hours of january 25th, the hefeinan emu depot was brightly lit. one by one, emu trains slowly entered the service shop, where over 70 maintenance technicians were busy inspecting, testing, repairing, and maintaining the trains to ensure these trains are in good conditions for operation, ready to face the spring festival travel "examination." every 72 hours or after covering a long distance of 7,700 kilometers, the emu must undergo a comprehensive "physical examination." the emu depot acts like an "emu hospital," carrying out inspections, tests, repairs, and maintenance on the emu trains. in the east china region, the scale of hefeinan emu depot is second only to shanghai hongqiao emu depot and is also the only emu depot in anhui province. all first and second level inspections and maintenance for emu trains in the entire anhui region are carried out here. at 11 p.m. that evening, a reporter arrived at the hefeinan emu depot located near the intersection of susong road and longchuan road. in the storage yard, lined up under rows of high-wattage searchlights, the emu trains that had been running all day "clocked off" and came here to enter the "emu hospital" for repairs. at 4:22 a.m., train number 0j7712 departed on schedule from the hefeinan emu depot to conduct an empty-train trial run to check and verify the high-speed rail line, ensuring both the line and the train were safe. following their "physical examination," the emu trains one by one headed to hefeinan railway station, located 2.5 kilometers away, to embark on a new round of long-distance journeys. the departure of anhui's first high-speed train of the spring festival travel season marks the official start of the 40-day travel rush!
source: hefei daily hefei evening news
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