Return trips peak during National Day holiday, railway transport capacity increased to ensure travel

The National Day holiday is coming to an end, and many people have finished their travels and visits to relatives and are returning home to get back to work. At this moment, in the transportation dispatching command hall of China Railway Group, real-time train dispatching is in progress. Follow CCTV reporters to learn about today's railway operations.

Railway transport capacity operates at high levels, hub stations ease passenger flow

As the National Day holiday enters the return phase, the number of railway passengers across the country continues to remain at a high level, with an average of about 13,000 passenger trains scheduled to run on the railways every day. High-speed rail hub stations such as Chengdu and Shanghai have launched overnight operations. The capacity of Shanghai Hongqiao Station has increased by about 30%. During peak hours, an average of one train arrives or departs every 5 minutes, which is as frequent as the morning rush hour of subways in large cities.

The latest data from the China Railway Group shows that today, the country's railways are expected to carry 22.1 million passengers, and plan to operate 2,199 additional trains.

Long-term moving and horizontal lines are being operated more intensively, and "getting home after a short sleep" has become the norm.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day are only three days apart. An extremely long travel window has spawned a large number of diagonal trips that "fly from the lower right corner to the upper left corner of the map." Many tourists have traveled from the warm South China and Jiangnan to northern autumn destinations such as Altay, Xinjiang, and now they are starting to return home one after another. Today, the National Railway Urumqi Bureau launched long-distance trains from Urumqi to Xi'an North and Beijing West, and implemented reconnection of 29 trains to serve the long-distance return passenger flow in Xinjiang.

In addition, today, Beijing travels to and from Shenzhen, Nanning, Kunming, Hong Kong, etc., Shanghai travels to Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan, Yibin, etc., and Zhengzhou travels to Shanghai, Shenzhen, Nanning, Zhanjiang, Zhuhai, etc. Chengdu continues to operate movable sleepers to and from Beijing, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and other directions. "Sleep and get home" has become one of the return journey experiences for many long-distance passengers.

New lines and new stations put into use to expand return travel channels

During this year's National Day holiday, the newly opened Xiongshang section of the Beijing-Hong Kong high-speed railway and the Haiyi high-speed railway and many other new lines and new stations were fully put into use for National Day transportation support for the first time. Among them, the hub station Heze East Station of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway, which has just been opened to traffic, has been upgraded to a "cross hub" for the Beijing-Hong Kong High-speed Railway and the Japan-Lanzhou High-speed Railway. Today, Heze East Station is expected to carry 17,000 passengers, and there will be 12 high-speed trains to Beijing. It can directly reach the three major stations of Beijing West, Beijing South and Beijing Daxing in two or three hours. At the same time, Beijing West Railway Station has expanded the outbound channels to 18 platforms to cope with the return passenger flow caused by the increase in trains opening on the new line. After getting off the train from Beijing West Railway Station, passengers will feel less crowded and smoother when exiting the station. Today, the newly opened Xikang High-speed Railway is expected to carry 28,000 passengers, giving passengers more choices for travel.

Warm reminder: Keep medicine with you to protect your journey safely

Finally, a little travel reminder. On the way back, the carriages are densely packed with people and the temperature difference changes greatly. It is recommended that you keep the medicines you always need for the journey with you. Medications for chronic diseases that you take for a long time must be carried with you and do not be checked in. It is recommended to keep the prescription or medical record notes. It is also best to carry some emergency medicines, including motion sickness medicine, gastrointestinal antidiarrheal medicine, cold and antipyretic medicine, etc.

If key passengers need to be picked up or dropped off at the station, they can apply for a service ticket for free.

When traveling by rail, many passengers bring elderly people, children, and a lot of luggage and need family members to pick them up and drop them off at the station. At present, the railway has stopped selling platform tickets, so what should I do if I need to pick up and drop off at the station? I would also like to remind everyone that key passengers who need a pick-up station can apply for a free pick-up station service order and enter the station for pick-up.

The railway department provides free pick-up and drop-off services for key passengers such as the elderly, young, sick, disabled and pregnant. Family members only need to bring their ID cards and passenger ticket purchase information to the real-name manual channel at the station and explain their pick-up and drop-off needs to the staff.

After the staff verifies the registration, they will issue a service ticket for the pick-up and drop-off station, and family members will enter the station to pick up the passengers with the receipt. It should be noted that this service needs to be applied for 20 minutes before the train departs. In addition, the pick-up station service ticket is only used as a pick-up voucher and cannot be used as a ticket. Persons holding a service ticket are not allowed to board the bus. Each key passenger is limited to one adult relative or friend. After entering the station, you must abide by the platform safety regulations and are not allowed to cross the white safety line or run with the bus. After the pick-up and drop-off is completed, the family members must leave the station immediately and return the service ticket. The service ticket at the pick-up station will be automatically invalidated half an hour after the train departs.

Qu Liang, Passenger Transport Director of Daqing West Station of Daqing Depot of Harbin Bureau of National Railways: Passenger flow is concentrated during the National Day holiday, and the demand for pick-up and drop-off stations has increased significantly. It is recommended that everyone arrive at the station in advance to reserve sufficient time for security check and entry. The platform is crowded, so family members are asked to cooperate with on-site guidance and pay attention to travel safety. After the passengers who are dropped off at the station get on the bus and the passengers who are picked up at the station are reunited, family members are asked to leave the station as soon as possible to avoid being stranded.

Long-distance self-driving trips will gradually return

The holiday is coming to an end and the rush to return has arrived. The transportation department has judged that today, the traffic flow on roads around the city and roads leading to scenic spots will remain high. As long-distance self-driving travelers begin to return, the traffic on highways around the city will continue to run at a high level.

There is a break in precipitation in most parts of the country, which is conducive to return travel

In the last two days of the holiday, precipitation has stopped in most parts of the country, which is conducive to everyone's return trip from the holiday. However, for Hainan, due to the influence of easterly winds, rainfall will be more frequent in the next few days, and there will be many heavy rainfalls. In terms of temperature, this morning, temperatures hit record lows in large areas of Northeast China, the eastern part of the Huanghuai River, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and Guizhou, Guangxi, and northern Guangdong. Cities such as Hefei, Nanjing, Kunming, and Nanning are among them. There is a big temperature difference between day and night, so wear extra clothes when going out in the morning and evening.

(CCTV reporters Zhai Zhuang and Chen Xi)