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Essence of China 2012

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Train Ticket Sample

Types of train
The trains in China are classified and named according to their speed and comfort, for example Z2, , K185 ...

/	D	Z	T	K	N	L	/
In Pinyin	Dongli	Zhida	Tebie Kuaiche	Kuaiche	Neibu Kuaiche	Linshi
	CRH China Railway High-speed	Trains express with high speed and arrive directly .	Trains express with high speed	Trains express	trains express regional	Train opens on holidays	Trains without prefixe stop at small city
Stops	Non-stop	Non-stop .	Stop at big city	Stop at certain city	Many stops	Uncertain	More
Exe	D31	Z1 Z3	T185 T55	K117 K116	N235	L235	2085 2141
Confort	5	5	4	4	3	3	2
Speed	5	5	4	3	3	3	2
Restaurant	3	4	3	3	3	3	2
Cleaness	5	4	4	3	3	3	2
Remarks	Fast food	It only exists between certain cities	/	/	/	Only for the festivals	/
* The CRH start to running on April 19, 2007. The average speed is 250 km/h. * This comment is written by our website, it is just a reference for you.

The Chinese trains are characterized by four types. The hard seats(yingzuo), with the very stiff material, are
often taken crowdly. The hard berths (yingwo), are distributed on three levels in a compartment of 6 places.
The soft seats(ruanzuo), with broad and comfortable benches. Lastly, the soft berths (ruanwo), are the most pleasant places to spend one night in a Chinese train. Their compartments are only 4 places.

Remarks:

The price which shown in the form is included the service fee.

The Tibet travel permit must be shown When you boarded on the train, but this price dose not include the Tibet Travel permit, please require the detailed information here: contact@nihaochinatours.com

The ticket must be purchaced in the original city, so we can only send the ticket in the original departure city.

China has set the timetables for the first three pairs of trains from five cities to Lhasa along the world's highest Qinghai-Tibet railway which is due to open for trial operations on July 1, 2006.

Among the three pairs of train routes, there are a pair of express trains to run from Beijing to Lhasa, four pairs of express trains between Chengdu (Chongqing) and Lhasa, and two pairs of fast trains between Xining (Lanzhou) and Lhasa.

Departing from Beijing's West Railway Station at 21:30, train T27/8 will arrive in Lhasa in Tibet at 20:58 three days after, the 4,064-kilometer trip taking a total of 47 hours and 28 minutes, sources said on Monday.

T27/8 train will pass through six cities, including Shijiazhuang, Xi'an, Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township.

The return trip from Lhasa to Beijing is scheduled to take 32 minutes longer than the outbound.

The trip from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Lhasa, covering a distance of 3,360 kilometers, will take about 48 hours and 10 minutes on train T22/23. This train will pass Guangyuan, Baoji, then link to Lanzhou, Xining, Golmud and Nagqu township before it reaches Lhasa. The return journey on train T24/1 will take 48 hours 50 minutes.

The 3,654-kilometer trip from Chongqing to Lhasa will have eight stops before it arrives in Lhasa after 47 hours and eight minutes, while the trip from Lhasa to Chongqing will take 48 hours and 50 minutes.

The journey from Lanzhou to Lhasa on train K917/8 will take only 29 hours and 45 minutes to cover 2,188-kilometers.

The journey from Xining in QinghaiProvince to Lhasa, which are 1,972 kilometers apart, will take 26 hours and 23 minutes.

The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, the world's highest, extends 1,956 kilometers from Xining to Lhasa. Some 960 kilometers of its tracks are 4,000 meters above sea level and the highest point is 5,072 meters, at least 200 meters higher than the Peruvian railway in the Andes, which was formerly the world's highest altitude railway.