High-speed route
Jinghu High-Speed
Beijing → Shanghai · China
Jinghu High-Speed in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,318 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 18 min
- Average speed
- 307 km/h
- Top speed
- 350 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- CR400 Fuxing
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2011
- Runs
- 40+ daily each way, every 10–30 min
- Riders per year
- ≈ 200M
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s fastest scheduled trains: 350 km/h Fuxing sets covering 1,318 km in under four and a half hours.
More than four-fifths of the route rides on viaduct, a stilted causeway of standardised spans that lets full-speed running ignore the soft alluvial plain below. Out of Beijing South the Fuxing crosses the Yellow River at Jinan, skirts holy Mount Tai and leaps the Yangtze at Nanjing on the Dashengguan Bridge. It is also the railway that pays its way: the busiest and most profitable line in China’s high-speed empire, moving well over 100 million passengers a year.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 356778 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: China Railway 12306 — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- North China Plain wheat flats
- Yellow River crossing at Jinan
- Mount Tai near Tai’an
- Dashengguan Yangtze bridge at Nanjing
- Danyang–Kunshan Grand Bridge — the world’s longest
- Shanghai Hongqiao’s colossal trainshed
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