China News Service, Shanghai, February 7 (Pufan) The reporter learned from China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shanghai Bureau Group") that as of February 6, 12 days have passed since the 2024 Spring Festival, and the Yangtze River Delta Railway A total of more than 30 million passengers have been sent, which is more than 6.2 million more passengers than the same period in 2019, an increase of more than 25%. On the 7th, the Yangtze River Delta Railway is expected to carry more than 2.62 million passengers, with passenger flow exceeding 2.4 million for 8 consecutive days, ushering in the peak period before the holiday.
Shanghai Hongqiao Station during the Spring Festival travel rush. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Railway Station
February 7 is the 13th day of the Spring Festival in 2024 and the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. On that day, the Yangtze River Delta Railway Department planned to operate 520 additional passenger trains (including 327 through passenger trains and 193 intra-regional passenger trains), and carry out reconnection operation of 289 EMU trains. With three days left before the Spring Festival, the Yangtze River Delta Railway ushered in a peak passenger flow within the tube. The number of additional intra-tube trains that day increased by one compared to the previous day. The main directions were Shanghai to Anqing, Chizhou, Xuzhou, Hefei, Lu'an, and Huainan. , Huaibei, etc., Hangzhou to Nanjing, Huaibei, Fuyang, etc., Hefei to Anqing, Huangshan, Bengbu, etc., Nanjing to Wuhu, Anqing, Nantong, etc., to meet the rapidly growing passenger flow demand within the pipeline.
Since the Spring Festival Transport started on January 26, the Yangtze River Delta Railway has carried 9.3 million through passengers, an increase of nearly 15% over the same period in 2019; nearly 21.62 million internal passengers, an increase of nearly 31% year-on-year; and more than 2.4 million passengers per day. The number of passengers reached 11 days (including the number of passengers planned to be sent on that day); the largest increase in passenger flow compared with the same period in 2019 was on February 3, with nearly 2.76 million passengers sent on that day, a year-on-year increase of over 33%.
From the perspective of passenger flow direction, long-distance passenger flow accounts for one-third, mainly from Yunnan-Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing, Northeast, Northwest, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Henan and other regions; short-distance passenger flow accounts for two-thirds, mainly concentrated in Shanghai, Nanjing, Nanjing, etc. Shanghai-Hangzhou, Ningbo-Hangzhou, Hangzhou-Ningbo, Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou, Hening, Ning'an and other high-speed railway lines. Judging from the passenger flow situation at stations, the passenger flow at railway stations in Shanghai, Nanjing, Hefei, Hangzhou, Xuzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, Kunshan, Wuhu, Changzhou and other places has increased significantly.
In order to make the journey back home during the Spring Festival safer, more orderly and more welcoming for passengers, the Shanghai Bureau Group has adopted measures such as adding additional passenger trains, reconnecting EMUs, and adding regular-speed train carriages to increase passenger transport capacity based on the peak operation chart. . Since the start of the Spring Festival Transport, the Yangtze River Delta Railway has dynamically adjusted its transport capacity based on the expected passenger flow, operating 3,911 additional passenger trains and 2,933 over-the-counter trains. (over)