Tickets for the Shanghai-Sutong Railway will start at 11 o'clock today and will open tomorrow
Shanghai-Sutong Railway timetable is announced.
On June 30, a reporter from Peng Mei News (www.thepaper.cn) learned from China Railway Shanghai Bureau Group Co., Ltd. that the Shanghai-Suzhou-Nantong Railway (hereinafter referred to as the Shanghai-Sutong Railway) will be opened for operation on July 1. It will be on sale on June 30 at 11:00. Passengers can purchase tickets through the official website of the 12306 railway, the station ticket window, and the railway agent.
At the beginning of the opening of the Shanghai-Sutong Railway, the railway department will arrange trains to operate according to daily lines, weekend lines, and peak lines, with a maximum of 44.5 pairs of passenger trains and 6 pairs of freight trains. The newly added daily and weekend lines are 9.5 pairs from Nantong to Shanghai Hongqiao, 4.5 pairs from Shanghai to Nantong, 1.5 pairs from Nanjing to Shanghai Hongqiao, 5.5 pairs from Shanghai to Nanjing, 1 pair from Yangzhou to Shanghai Hongqiao, and 1.5 pairs from Shanghai Hongqiao to Taizhou. 2 pairs from Taizhou to Shanghai, 1 pair from Huangshan North to Yangzhou (Taizhou), 1 pair from Nanjing to Hangzhou South, 1 pair from Qidong to Hangzhou South, 1 pair from Qidong to Shanghai Hongqiao, 1 pair from Shanghai to Bozhou South (Fuyang West), Shanghai Hongqiao 1 pair to (Fuyang West) Bozhou South (the specific opening date is subject to the station announcement).
After the opening of the Shanghai-Sutong Railway, Suzhou, Zhangjiagang, Changshu and Taicang will be connected to the Yangtze River Delta railway network at the same time. The railway trip between Nantong and Shanghai will also "curve into a straight line" without transiting through Nanjing. It is expected that the shortest time for the railway trip between the two places will be compressed from about 3.5 hours to 1 hour and 6 minutes. At the same time, the fastest running time from Shanghai Hongqiao to Taizhou and Yangzhou are 1 hour 48 minutes and 2 hours 22 minutes respectively, and the fastest running time from Shanghai Hongqiao to Taicang, Changshu and Zhangjiagang are 32 minutes, 48 minutes and 53 minutes respectively.
The Shanghai-Sutong Railway is a coastal channel of the country's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, and an important part of the Beijing-Shanghai Second Channel. It starts from Nantong City in Jiangsu Province in the north and leads from the existing Nanjing to Qidong Railway Zhaodian Station. It passes through Nantong City. Tongzhou District, crossing the Yangtze River to the south, passing through Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Taicang, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, and finally to Jiading District, Shanghai, with a total length of 143 kilometers and a design speed of 200 kilometers per hour. There are 9 stations on the whole line: Zhaodian, Nantong West, Zhangjiagang North, Zhangjiagang, Changshu, Taicang Port, Taicang, Taicang South, and Anting West.
The railway department reminds the majority of passengers that the specific number of trains, the time and other relevant information, please check the "China Railway" WeChat and Railway 12306 website, WeChat, client.
Surging News Trainee Reporter Chen Shaoying Reporter Gao Wen