The time of traveling to Hong Kong from Jiangsu will be cut to 9 hours by the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed railway that will be officially put into operation on September 23. Starting Monday, train tickets will be sold simultaneously in the Mainland and Hong Kong. The high-speed railway will greatly shorten the distance between Hong Kong and the mainland cities.
People in Jiangsu can make transfers at Shanghai, Hangzhou or Wuhan to get aboard the high speed train for Hong Kong. The total time spent on the travel will be around 9 hours. The cost of traveling by making transfer at Shenzhen is 766 yuan per person for a second class seat.
The passengers will be exempted from border inspection by getting off the train at the border crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. They will be subject to customs inspection at the West Kowloon Railway Station when they reach the terminus of the railway journey.
95 sets of bullet trains will be running between Guangzhou and Hong Kong on the first day of the operation. 13 of them are long-haul trains that will reach more than 40 stations in the mainland.
Once operational, a train ride from Guangzhou South Railway Station to West Kowloon Station in Hong Kong will take a mere 48 minutes, while the trip from Shenzhen Futian Station, the world’s second largest underground railway station, will take 15 minutes.
Currently, the trip from Guangzhou East Railway Station to Hung Hom Station in Hong Kong takes about two hours.
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong XRL, also known in Chinese as Guangshen’Gang Gaotie, is part of the Beijing-Guangzhou-Shenzhen-[voice over]Hong Kong XRL operated by China Railway. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen segment has been running since 2011, whereas the Shenzhen Futian – Hong Kong Kowloon connection is in its final phase of construction.
The Guangzhou-Hong Kong express rail is 145 kilometers in length, with seven stops: Guangzhou South, Qingshen Guangzhou, Humen Dongguan, Guangmingcheng Shenzhen, Shenzhen North, Futian and West Kowloon.
（source:ourjiangsu.com）
