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China Railway journeys

One state operator running two very different railways: the high-speed grid that reshaped travel between Chinese cities, and the long-distance trains that still take days to cross the country.

Almost every long-distance train in China is a China Railway service, so the useful question is not who runs it but which railway you are buying. A high-speed corridor is a reserved seat and a few hours between city centres. A conventional long-distance train is a berth, a timetable measured in days, and a route chosen for where it goes rather than how quickly.

Reservations are name-based and released on the operator's own schedule, so the catalogue records what the operator publishes and leaves fares and availability to the booking channel rather than estimating them.

14 published journeys · 3 groupings

• High-speed corridors11
• Long-distance and plateau sleepers2
• Scenic and conventional lines1