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Source caption: Tickets for the first Beijing-Xiong two-way intercity train sold out in just 50 minutes and only 48 yuan.
Beijing News Express (reporter Pei Jianfei) Starting tomorrow (December 27), the Beijing-Xiong Interurban Railway (the new section from Daxing Airport to Xiong’an) will be open for operation. By then, the Beijing-Xiong Intercity will be fully connected. The fastest travel time from Beijing West Railway Station to Xiongan New Area is 50 minutes, and the fastest travel time from Daxing Airport to Xiongan New Area is 19 minutes. Starting at 1:00 p.m. today, tickets are officially on sale. Among them, the second class have a minimum of 48 yuan and a maximum of 68 yuan.
The lowest fare for the second-class seat of the Beijing-Xiong Interurban Railway is 48 yuan.Photograph / Beijing News reporter Wang Guibin
The Beijing-Xiong Interurban Railway leads from the Beijing West Railway Station, passes the existing Beijing-Kowloon Railway to Liying Station, connects with the newly built high-speed railway line, and passes through the Daxing District of Beijing from Langfang, Hebei Province and Bazhou City to the new Xiong’an District in the south. With a total length of 91 kilometers and a maximum design speed of 350 kilometers per hour, after the opening of the new section of the Beijing-Xiong Interurban Railway from Daxing Airport to Xiong’an, the railway department will organize the operation of 16 pairs of moving trains with an initial maximum operating speed of 300 kilometers per hour. When the national rail operation chart is adjusted on January 20, 2021, the trains will be arranged according to daily and peak lines, and up to 17 pairs of moving trains will be operated daily.
Starting at 1:00 p.m. today, the railway department officially sold tickets for the EMU train from Daxing Airport to the new Xiong’an section of the Beijing-Xiong Intercity Railway. The reporter noted that shortly after the sale started, the tickets for the first trains leaving from Beijing West Railway Station and Xiong’an Station were sold out.
At present, all tickets for the first intercity round-trip train between Beijing and Xiong have been sold out.Photograph / Beijing News reporter Wang Guibin
Tomorrow, there will be 6 round-trip trains between Beijing West Railway Station and Xiong’an Station. The first will be distributed at 10:38 and the other will go directly to Xiong’an Station. Tickets for this train have also sold out. It should be noted that, except for the 4 direct trains (C2701, C2703, C2702, C2704) departing tomorrow from Beijing West Railway Station and Xiong’an Station, which will last more than 40 minutes, the Beijing Intercity Railway -Xiong will officially run After the operation, the trains will stop at Daxing airport. The fastest travel time from Beijing West Railway Station to Xiong’an New Area is 50 minutes and the fastest travel time from Daxing Airport to Xiong’an New Area is 19 minutes .
Tomorrow, there will be 6 roundtrip trains between Beijing West Railway Station and Xiong’an Station, the first of which is at 10:38 a.m. Photo / Beijing News reporter Wang Guibin
The journalist noted that the number of trains on the first launch day is lower, and the number of trains will gradually increase in the coming days. At present, the price of second-class seats on the Beijing-Xiong Interurban High-Speed Railway has three levels from low to high, which are 48 yuan and 61 yuan respectively. It is understood that the difference in ticket prices is mainly related to the train’s operating hours and the departure time.
