The Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway will be opened today for all
three types of seats, all with three fares. The fastest distance between the two places is 50 minutes.
News from our newspaper (Reporter Wang Wei) The Beijing-Xionggan New Area Intercity Railway (hereinafter referred to as the Jingxiong Intercity) Daxing Airport to Xiong'an New Section opened for operation today, and the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway has been fully operational.
A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily learned that after the Beijing-Xiong Intercity line is fully operational, the fastest travel time between Beijing West Railway Station and Xiong'an New Section is 50 minutes, and the fastest travel time between Daxing Airport and Xiong'an New Section is 19 minutes.
On the same day, Xiongan Station was also put into use simultaneously.
The Beijing-Xiong Intercity leads from Beijing West Railway Station, passes through the existing Beijing-Kowloon Railway to Liying Station, connects to the newly built high-speed railway line, and passes through Beijing Daxing District, Langfang City, Hebei Province, and Bazhou City to Xiong’an New District in the south. It is 91 kilometers long and has a maximum design speed of 350 kilometers per hour. The section from Beijing West to Daxing Airport was opened on September 26, 2019.
The newly opened section from Daxing Airport to Xiong’an is 59 kilometers long, with 4 stations including Daxing Airport, Gu’an East, Bazhou North and Xiong’an.
Yesterday at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the full line of Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway tickets went on sale.
A reporter from the Beijing Youth Daily found in the 12306 mobile client that there are three levels of fares for the Beijing-Xiong Intercity: business seats are 143 yuan, 184 yuan, and 204 yuan; first-class seats are 76 yuan, 98 yuan, and 109 yuan; second-class seats are 48 yuan, 61 yuan, 68 yuan.
Among them, there are two trains that depart from Beijing West to Xiong'an Station at 6:56 in the morning and 9:46 in the evening. The fares for the three seats of business, first-class and second-class seats are the lowest.
The C2771, the fastest travel time of the whole journey, takes 50 minutes to reach Xiong'an Station from Beijing West Railway Station. The three types of seats are the most expensive.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that after the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway Daxing Airport to Xiong'an new section is opened for operation, the railway department will arrange 16 pairs of mobile trains, with the initial maximum operating speed of 300 kilometers per hour.
When the national railway operation chart is adjusted on January 20, 2021, trains will be arranged according to daily and peak lines, and up to 17 pairs of mobile trains will be operated daily.
As for the Xiong’an Station, which was put into operation simultaneously with the Jingxiong Intercity, in the future it will become a junction hub for the Beijing-Hong Kong (Taiwan) high-speed railway, the Jingxiong Intercity Railway, the Tianjin-Xiongan New Area Intercity Railway, and the Xiongan New Area-Xinzhou High-speed Railway .
It is worth mentioning that Jingxiong Intercity is another smart high-speed railway constructed in my country, and it has made new breakthroughs in a number of key smart technologies. In terms of intelligent equipment, the use of advanced train control systems, intelligent control, big data, cloud computing and other technologies are widely used in new generation mobile communications, traction power supply and other equipment. In terms of intelligent operation, the construction of intelligent high-speed rail stations can realize intelligent services such as precise passenger positioning, route planning, and location search; high-speed rail equipment adopts electronic label management to realize intelligent operation and maintenance; uses intelligent technologies such as earthquake warning and integrated video integration to improve High-speed rail disaster prevention capabilities.