[photopress:shanghai_bullet_train.JPG,full,alignright]This month, to handle more passengers during the summer peak travel season, some bullet trains between Shanghai and Nanjing will double the number of carriages to 16.
Trains between Shanghai and Nanjing usually stop at Wuxi, Suzhou and Changzhou, all popular tourism destinations.
The extra carriages may also help ease a rise in passengers in late August when college students return to Shanghai for the autumn semester.
The back-to-school peak will run from August 25 to September 6.
Shanghai’s railways handled 18.67 million passengers last month, up 273,000, or 1.5%, from the same period last year.
High-speed trains are popular despite higher ticket prices thanks to fashionable interior designs, a comfortable environment and faster speeds. The domestically-made CRH, China Railway High-speed, trains came into use on April 18.
They were designed to reduce journey times between major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, by about two hours. They have an average speed of 200 kilometers per hour. This higher speed effectively increases passenger capacity 18% and cargo capacity 12%.
Source: Shanghai Daily
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