Passengers in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, are experiencing quick and easy entrance to subway stations. Instead of using tickets or swiping their smartphones, they can just smile at a screen to unlock the electric gates, the People’s Daily reported Thursday. The mobile app “Jinan Metro” is responsible for collecting users’ images. The…
A new intercity railway between Shenzhen and Zhuhai is proposed in a 2016-2030 master development plan that was recently approved by China Railway Corp and the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government. Shenzhen’s endeavor to build the Xili and Shenzhen Airport high-speed railway stations highlights the plan. The Shenzhen-Zhuhai Intercity Railway will start from Xili Railway Station…
A view of a Fuxing bullet train in Shanghai. China’s high-speed railway had transported more than 10 billion passengers by the end of the first quarter of 2019, a new world record, China Railway said on Saturday. By the end of March, the total volume was “3.34 trillion passenger-kilometers,” China Railway said in a statement…
Rob Jones spoke as Neath Port Talbot’s cabinet backed a joint venture to set up a Global Centre of Rail Excellence. Currently manufacturers have to send trains across Europe for testing before they come back to the UK for service. The Nant Helen opencast mine near Ystradgynlais is the preferred site for the scheme, which Powys council…
（China’s high-speed rail network carries 4 million passengers every day, connecting some of the country’s top draws） China has built the world’s longest high-speed rail network and is continuing to expand it rapidly. With a total length of 29,000 km by the end of 2018, high-speed rail now covers 30 of the country’s 34 provincial-level…
BUDAPEST, May 7 (Xinhua) — Planning has started for a new high-speed railway system linking the Visegrad Group (V4) countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) together, according to local media on Tuesday. “In two years, the feasibility study on the high-speed railway linking Budapest-Bratislava-Brno-Warsaw will be completed,” Hungarian daily Magyar Nemzet reported here,…
（Students practice driving a high-speed train in a simulator at Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Technical College in Ayutthaya, Thailand, in February. YANG ZHOU/XINHUA） “Now the train moves forward,” said 20-year-old Arthitaya Sapkum, who was attentively looking at a screen that simulates the locomotive window of a high-speed train, while her classmates were operating the control…
Conductors may allow passengers to extend trips only when not overbooked The country’s railway operator said it will no longer allow train conductors to sell extended tickets to passengers who are already on board because the practice created overcrowding problems over the May Day holiday last week and was unfair to passengers who had booked…
High-speed rail puts Zhanjiang on fast-track for economic growth A new era is welcomed with much faster route to Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Zheng Renhao (right), Party secretary of Zhanjiang, and Jiang Jianjun, mayor of Zhanjiang, take part in the first public trial run of the new high-speed rail service between Guangzhou and Zhanjiang.…
High-speed trains to go even faster Workers check Fuxing bullet trains in the assembly workshop of CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co in Qingdao, Shandong province, in June. Operator taps cutting-edge tech to improve passengers’ experience China’s high-speed railway system is setting more ambitious goals for domestically developed Fuxing bullet trains, Lu Dongfu, head of the national…