Past, present and future: The evolution of China's incredible high-speed rail network

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With all the chat about the expense of the streetcar, updating roads and bridges, this is an interesting article about what China has done in the last 20 yrs with their high speed rail.


At the beginning of the 21st century China had no high-speed railways.
Slow and often uncomfortable trains plodded across this vast country, with low average speeds making journeys such as Shanghai-Beijing a test of travel endurance.
Today, it's a completely different picture. The world's most populous nation has -- by some distance -- the world's largest network of high-speed railways.
No fewer than 37,900 kilometers (about 23,500 miles) of lines crisscross the country, linking all of its major mega-city clusters, and all have been completed since 2008.
Half of that total has been completed in the last five years alone, with a further 3,700 kilometers due to open in the coming months of 2021.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chin ... index.html

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With all the chat about the expense of the streetcar, updating roads and bridges, this is an interesting article about what China has done in the last 20 yrs with their high speed rail.

When I first lived in Shanghai in the year 2000, it took around 6-8 hours in the fastest train to travel from Shanghai to Nanjing. The trip now takes about 1 hour. However, even more eye-catching than the speeds of the trains is the frequency. Most days, there are 270 passenger trains from Shanghai to Nanjing with 200 of those trains being high-speed trains.

Following is a link to the schedule. Trains leave from two of Shanghai's train stations. The trains that begin with G are the fastest and those that begin with D are only slightly slower.

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/china- ... F04%2F2022