[photopress:expresstrains.jpg,full,alignright]The Ministry of Railways has announced that the train trip from Shanghai to Beijing will be cut from 12 hours to 10 hours from April. At the same time, Vice Railway Minister Hu Yadong, stated that daytime express trains will be added to the Shanghai-Beijing line. Express trains between the two cities now depart only in the evening and arrive in the morning.
The Minister said that as part of a general rise in train speeds from April 18, already announced and reported here, the speed for trains on the tracks between Shanghai and Beijing, Beijing and Harbin, Beijing and Guangzhou, and Jinan and Qingdao in Shandong Province will rise from 200 kilometers an hour to 250 kilometers an hour.
This means trains can reach 200 kilometers an hour along 6,000 kilometers in 17 provinces. That speed is now possible on only 1,960 kilometers of track, including the Beijing-Shanghai section. Trains travel at 160 kilometers an hour in most of the country.
The Beijing-Shanghai artery is the busiest of China’s 75,000 kilometers of railways.
Daytime express trains are also planned for trips from Shanghai to Changsha, capital of Hunan Province in central China, and from Beijing to Wuhan, Harbin, Changchun and Qingdao.
The biggest cut for passengers departing Shanghai will be 7 1/2 hours from the city’s Southern Railway Station to Changsha. The trip now takes 15 hours.
Source: Shanghai Daily
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