High-speed route
Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR
Guiyang → Guangzhou · China
Eighty-three percent tunnel and bridge: 238 bores through Guizhou’s karst down to the Pearl Delta, four hours where the road once took a day and a night.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3999066 — 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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR?
The Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR runs 857 km from Guiyang to Guangzhou.
How long does the Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 4 h for the 857 km. That is an average of 214 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.
Who runs the Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR?
China Railway, with CRH & Fuxing EMUs.
How old is the Guiyang–Guangzhou HSR?
The line has been in service since 2014. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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