High-speed route
Hefei–Fuzhou HSR
Hefei → Fuzhou · China
Hefei–Fuzhou HSR in pictures
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- Distance
- 813 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h
- Average speed
- 203 km/h
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- CRH380A
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2015
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Nicknamed China’s most beautiful high-speed line, curving past Mount Huangshan and the Wuyi Mountains through Jiangnan tea country.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3200434 — 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 2 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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