High-speed route
Nanning–Guangzhou HSR
Nanning → Guangzhou · China
- Distance
- 576 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 165 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- CRH2A
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2014
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Follows the Xijiang (West River) valley out of Guangxi down to the Pearl River Delta, linking Nanning with Guangzhou.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 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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