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Normal passenger (普客), trains numbered from 6001 to 8998 No speed-up ticket is required for this class; Normal fast (普快), trains numbered from 1001 to 5998 Fare of speed-up ticket is 20% of fare basis (¥0.011722 per kilometer) for this class; Fast (快速) / Express (特快), trains prefixed with letter K, T, or Z
Passenger trains in Shanghai. Passenger rail transport is one of the principal means of transport in the People's Republic of China, with rail passenger traffic exceeding 1.86 billion railway trips in 2011. [1] It is operated by the China Railway Corporation (CR). The Spring Festival Travel Season is the peak railway travel season of the year.
The train uses pantograph to gain 25kV 50Hz AC from the overhead catenary, which is the only type of energy source used on the China Railway network all across China. It also has a storage battery system which can provide the train with a 110V DC power source.
The opening of the short-lived Woosung Road, the first railway in China, between Shanghai and Wusong in 1876. The first recorded railway track to be laid in China was a 600-metre (1,969 ft) long miniature gauge demonstration line that a British merchant assembled outside the Xuanwumen city gate at Beijing in 1865 to demonstrate rail technology. [14]
The Hainan eastern ring high-speed railway is a high-speed railway on Hainan Island. It is operated by China Railway Guangzhou Group.Opened in December 2010, the railway links the capital Haikou at the northern end of the province, and goes alongside the eastern coastline to reach the resort city of Sanya in the southernmost region of the island.
A viaduct carrying the railway. The Wuhan–Guangzhou high-speed railway, also called the Wuguang high-speed railway and short for Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong high-speed railway, Wuhan–Guangzhou section, is a 968-kilometre (601 mi) [2] high-speed rail line, operated by China Railway High-speed (CRH), connecting Wuhan and Guangzhou, the provincial capitals of Hubei and ...
It has dual tracks between Beijing and Shanghai, and the full length of the railway has been electrified. The entire line is dual tracked. Passenger rail service now offers overnight service on CRH Sleepers (D-series trains). D type express overnight sleeper bullet trains have now commenced operation between Beijing and Nanjing/Shanghai ...
The Hard seat (Chinese: 硬座; pinyin: yìng zuò) or Semi-cushioned seat, [1] abbreviated YZ, is a train seat that is the cheapest class of seating in China Railway. [2] [3] It is available on non-high-speed trains. [3] The name of Hard seat derives comes from the hard, wooden seats in the Mao era on regular passenger trains. Modern "hard ...