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Many people said HSR was a waste too when China started to run their HSR several years ago

4 of the 22 carriages are for passengers and what are the other 18 carriages for? From my experience, K trains have aircon, and yes there were some people smoking in the joints of two carriages, but never saw people smoke inside the carriage of K trains. I have never seen a passenger train with...

The design speed of that line is 350km/h. In 2010, I took the train from Guangzhou to Wuhan, and the maximum speed was 340km/h, but now the trains are running below 310km/h.

Most HSR trains run in the daytime,7 am to 11pm,and are maitained at night. I saw a video made by a swedish guy on youtube, a coin can balance on the window sill on the chinese train at 300km/h. I think the high quality of track is the most important factor. https://youtu.be/yUtS8M90Fto

I agree with you that the chinese bullet train is amazing! I love to travel by train in other countries whenever it is possible. Last month, we traveled in China by CRH bullet train(CRH2A) from Guilin to Congjiang among the Karst mountains. The maximum speed of that trip was only 247km/h, but...

No, they sell limited number of seatless tickets, I think. As that railway line was opened not long time ago, so the train was not very frequent, and the train in that line was quite busy. Our train only had one stop between Congjiang and Guilin, so it took 54 mins for about 150km. Yes, the...

Some young people might speak a little English.

Yes, foreigners can book ticket online too if they can read chinese. Our tickets were booked on the official website by a chinese friend. Yes, some travel agencies can book and deliver them to you

Yes, and always book the ticket online in advance,but the website is only in Chinese

We had a trip in the south part of China during Easter vacation. We took the high speed train from Guilin North railway station to Congjiang to explore the very rural minority villages. The high speed rail line from Guangzhou to Guilin and then Guiyang was open just 3 months ago. From Guilin to...