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North: Suihua, Heilongjiang, China South: Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India

Tickets for the first trains were put on sale at 09:00 on June 24. I booked my ticket at 09:02.

Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed Rail opened to public for commercial service on June 30, 2011. The first train departed from Beijing at 15:00. I took this very first train and recorded the trip with my iPhone and GPS. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing–Shanghai_High-Speed_Railway...

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No. The Chinese word "Hexiehao" or "Dongchezu" is not an equivalence of "CRH".

There's no "CRH6". It's just "NDJ3", or "Harmony Great Wall"

The train on the left is CRH1E, currently serves Beijing-Shanghai over night route and perhaps some other routes. The train on the right is a later version of CRH2, should not be a CRH2A, but it is not easy to figure out which type of CRH2 it is from the angle.

C2048 (Tianjin - Beijing South) Rail distance: 116.9 km On Timetable (GMT+08:00): * Departure: 2010-Feb-05 14:45 * Arrival: 2010-Feb-05 15:15 Actual (GMT+08:00): * Doors close: 2010-Feb-05 14:43:49 * Start moving: 2010-Feb-05 14:44:11 * Stop moving: 2010-Feb-05 15:14:12 * Doors open...

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The railway is expected to be opened next week: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhengxi_Passenger_Railway http://bbs.hasea.com/viewthread.php?tid=403987 lightning arrester: western entrance: 100 meters into western entrance...

Total Distance: 23617 km Total Scheduled Time: 8 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes Total Actual Time: 8 days, 23 hours, 56 minutes (109.4 km/h) Total Cost: CNY 6656.00 (CNY 0.2818 per kilometre) Date Train Depart-Arrive Distance A/C Class Jan01 N227...

First post in the thread. I travelled 75900 km on rails in 2007 and 60341 km in 2008 (excluding metro, tram or maglev). Here is my tickets in 2008: ---- [2009-01-01] N227, Beijing West - Tianjin North [2009-01-01 00:01] Buy ticket at ticketing window 5 in the east ticketing...

Sorry, I mean such message boards in English language, maybe in the US, India, or some other countries?

Hello, I'm a newcomer from China and I'm looking for an active railfan forum in English language. There are lots of railfan forums here in China, for example, bbs.hasea.com, there are millions of messages on the forums and people post thousands of messages a day. I'm trying to google similar...