![]() ![]() Even Statista is quite inaccurate, confusing test runs of experimental trains with regular operating speeds of scheduled rail. Many of the statistics and other information available online on China’s (and other) train travel are inaccurate at best, one website claiming China in 2019 had 1.4 trillion train passengers. This has proven to be a convenient method to serve all cities on the route while still maintaining low average travel times. route from Shanghai to Nanjing serves 6 communities between the two terminal stations, with some trains on this route travelling on an express basis and making no stops (1 hour), with others stopping at one or several cities on route, with different trains making different combinations of stops (1.5 hours). China seems to have arrived at an excellent solution. ![]() There are always potential difficulties establishing routes due to the number of communities to serve and the consequent number of stops – which negate the advantage of high-speed trains. Shanghai-Beijing is down from 12 hours to 4 Shanghai-Nanjing from 4 hours to 1 Wuhan to Guangzhou from 14 hours to only 3 hours. China’s high-speed trains have dramatically reduced the travel time between most major centers. The Shanghai-Nanjing route for example has 38 trains each way each day – carrying perhaps 150,000 passengers, which frees a huge amount of track time for freight. The Chinese government planned the HSR program in part to compress passenger travel on these dedicated tracks and free much of the slower existing rail system for freight, to remove trucks from the nation’s highways, thus lowering costs and in turn making highways safer for automobiles. During the 40 days of China’s Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), passenger volume reached a peak of more than 400 million. China’s rail system carries about 3.5 billion passengers per year, nearly 70% of these on high-speed trains. Shanghai Maglev Train - The Fastest Train in the World with sustained speeds of 430 Km/h. Shanghai’s Maglev is still the fastest operating train in the world, These are the fastest trains in the world with several generations now operating at speeds between 350 Km/h and 400 Km/h. High-speed railway in China – statistics & facts China has more than 2,500 high-speed trains in operation, more than all the rest of the world combined, Ĭhina High Speed Train Facts – Longest, Fastest & Craziest and it also has the fastest trains in operation anywhere, The Unstoppable Growth of China’s High-Speed Rail Network and more than three times that of the entire European Union. China has the world’s longest high-speed rail (HSR) network with some 38,000 kilometers in operation, Ĭhina’s high-speed rail lines top 37,900 km at end of 2020 which comprises nearly 70% of all the world’s high-speed lines ![]()
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