CONSTRUCTION of China's second passenger-only inter-city railroad will start this month. The line will run between Lushan, a popular summer resort in Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, and provincial capital Nanchang, where it will join the existing Beijing-Kowloon Railway, a north-south trunk route.

The railway is scheduled to be completed and in service in 2009. The first passenger-only inter-city railway runs between Beijing and Tianjin and is set to be completed in 2008.