The 40-day 2018 Spring Festival travel rush ended on March 13. More than 3,900 extra trains were added during Spring Festival including 1,634 bullet trains in the Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei area.
During Spring Festival, Tianjin carried out 10 million trips.
A Fuxing bullet train leaves Tianjin Station.[Photo/Xinhua] |
Passengers board the train in Tianjin Station on March 13. [Photo/Xinhua] |
Attendance of ticket holders for the Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway and the Beijing-Guangzhou High Speed Railway was 100 percent. The Beijing-Qinhuangdao High Speed Railway in the Beijing-Tianjing-Hebei area was oversubscribed, at 112.3 percent.
Tianjin West Station ran 2.1 million trips during Spring Festival, an increase of 8.4 percent.
Tianjin Station scheduled 3.12 million trips.
Construction began on the Beijing-Xiongan New Area Railway on Feb 28.