High-speed route
Southeast Coastal HSR
Hangzhou → Shenzhen · China
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
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Southeast Coastal HSR?
The Southeast Coastal HSR runs 1,450 km from Hangzhou to Shenzhen.
How long does the Southeast Coastal HSR take?
The fastest scheduled journey is ≈ 6 h for the 1,450 km. That is an average of 242 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 300 km/h.
Who runs the Southeast Coastal HSR?
China Railway, with CRH & Fuxing EMUs.
How old is the Southeast Coastal HSR?
The line has been in service since 2013. 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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