High-speed route
Shanghai–Kunming HSR
Shanghai → Kunming · China
- Distance
- 2,252 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h
- Average speed
- 205 km/h
- Top speed
- 350 km/h
- Operator
- China Railway
- Train
- CR400AF Fuxing
- Countries
- China
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
China’s longest east–west high-speed line: 2,252 km from the Bund to the Yunnan plateau, vaulting Guizhou’s canyons on some of the world’s highest bridges.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 94.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7.5 km
- 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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