Han Ximin

ximhan@126.com

FOUR more trains departing from Shenzhen North Railway Station will stop at Pingshan Station during morning rush hour between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. starting from tomorrow, sources from Pingshan Station said.

The trains D2294, D2302, D2308 and D2346 will depart at 8 a.m., 8:05 a.m., 8:37 a.m. and 8:42 a.m., benefitting morning commuters.

The rapid transit service between Shenzhen North Railway Station and Pingshan Station was launched Sept. 1, 2015 and was extended to Futian Station, Huizhou South Station and Shanwei Station in January this year.

In another development, under the new train operation schedule that will take effect tomorrow, Shenzhen North Railway Station will operate 250 pairs of trains including 133 pairs on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen line and 117 pairs on the Shenzhen-Hangzhou line.

Under the new schedule, D7531/30 between Chaoshan and Guangzhou East Station and D7515/4 between Raoping and Guangzhou East Station will be extended to Guangzhou Station. G1016 from Shenzhen to Wuhan will be extended to Yichang East Station and the train number has been changed to G1036/7.

Guangzhou Railway Group Corp. said Monday it will add 157 trains, including 53 high-speed trains and 22 high-speed sleeper trains, for this upcoming National Day holiday travel peak between Sept. 28-Oct.8.

The operator estimates that 16.30 million passengers will be accommodated for those 11 days, an increase of 8.3 percent over the same period last year.

The increase in traveler numbers is mainly due to the overlapping of National Day holiday and Mid-Autumn Festival.

On Oct. 1, the operator estimates there will be 1.9 million passengers, a new record for a single day in Guangzhou Railway Group Corp.’s history.

The 53 high-speed trains include trains between Guangzhou and Hunan cities such as Changsha, Shaoyang, Xinhuang, Yongzhou, Huaihua, and Shenzhen with other Guangdong stations such as Chaoshan, Puning and Lufeng.

On Oct. 5, the operator will add train D7263 from Guangzhou to Zhuhai. On Oct. 6, it will add D7264 from Zhuhai to Guangzhou. On Sept. 30, Oct. 2, 7 and 9, the operator will add D2365/D2366 between Guangzhou and Nanning.

The sleeper trains include eight trains between Shenzhen and Beijing on Oct. 5 and one pair of trains between Shenzhen and Shanghai.