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> There are 10-15 high speed trains between each way per day Beijing and Shanghai Are you kidding? There's 50 or more each way per day. Well more than 10,000 a
by sho 8y ago
> There are 10-15 high speed trains between each way per day Beijing and Shanghai
Are you kidding? There's 50 or more each way per day. Well more than 10,000 a year, more like twice that, and the number will only go up.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoI was incorrect, and you were almost correct. There are 44 high speed trains from Beijing to Shanghai each day. Of those, 10 have a journey time of <5 hours. 23 have a journey time of >5 but <6 hours. 11 have a journey time of >6 hours.
- sho 8y agoHuh. I stand corrected. I am surprised it's so few. Possibly a shortage of rolling stock as I hear the line is reaching capacity on weekends. Nonetheless, the capacity is certainly there with low marginal costs now the infrastructure is built. They could run one every 5 minutes if they wanted - think Tokyo-Osaka. Give it time!
- rahimnathwani 8y agoI understand why they don't feel the need to increase frequency (it's actually easy enough to buy a tickey for next day travel) but I don't understand why they don't run all the 'fast' trains at the faster sub-5h speed.