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Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway in operation
2010-10-26 09:29
Passengers on the first train running from Hangzhou to Shanghai on the high-speed railway linking the two cities, Oct 26, 2010. Two CRH380A trains depart simultaneously from Hangzhou Railway Station and Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station at 9:00 am Tuesday, marking the inaugural of the 202-km Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed railway. [Photo/Xinhua]
SHANGHAI - China put another high-speed railway into operation Tuesday morning, which links Shanghai, the country's economic hub, and Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province.
The train is designed to run at a speed of 350 kilometers per hour on the 202-kilometer-long railway. A one-way journey previously took two hours. But the new train shortens that to less than 40 minutes.
A woman buys train tickets for high-speed railway linking Shanghai and Hangzhou from an automatic ticket selling machine at the Hangzhou Railway Station in Hangzhou, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, Oct 25, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua]