High-speed route
Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR
Hangzhou → Huangshan · China
Dubbed China’s most beautiful high-speed line, it slips through tea hills and water towns from West Lake to the granite of Yellow Mountain.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8399095 — 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 Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR?
The Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR runs 265 km from Hangzhou to Huangshan.
How long does the Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 30 min for the 265 km. That is an average of 177 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 250 km/h.
Who runs the Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR?
China Railway, with CRH380D.
How old is the Hangzhou–Huangshan HSR?
The line has been in service since 2018. 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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