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
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 Yishan Road 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
The east section is planned to extend one station to Caolu Railway station.[11]
Station name change
On 28 October 2006, Dongfang Road was renamed as the Century Avenue after station renovation for line 2 and the opening of line 4 (before line 9 began serving the station).
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).
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 Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park of line 2 to the newly built Longyang Road training line for subway staff training.