High-speed route
Beijing–Zhangjiakou HSR
Beijing → Zhangjiakou · China
Beijing–Zhangjiakou HSR in pictures
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- Distance
- 174 km
- Fastest time
- 47 min
- Average speed
- 222 km/h
- Top speed
- 350 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway Beijing Group
- Train
- CR400BF-C smart Fuxing
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2019
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The world’s first autonomous 350 km/h railway, built for the 2022 Winter Games above Zhan Tianyou’s 1909 line: one station lies 102 m beneath the Great Wall.
How this line was checked
- The 174 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11597839 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- 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
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