High-speed route
Southeast Coastal HSR
Hangzhou → Shenzhen · China
- Distance
- 1,450 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h
- Average speed
- 242 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- CRH & Fuxing EMUs
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2013
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
D-trains skim 1,450 km of fishing ports, tea hills and sea bridges between the Yangtze and Pearl deltas. China’s window seat on the East China Sea.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 2052885 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 32 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 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
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