Spring transportation in 2020: the number of trains in Yangtze River Delta increased by 10.8% year on year

On the evening of December 31, 2019, the Yangtze River Delta Railway Department released the latest news. It is estimated that 17 group chartered trains will be opened before the Spring Festival in 2020, with more than 8000 passengers. The model of

charter includes 9 "g" trains, 3 "d" trains and 5 ordinary trains. The departure area involves Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou and other places. The destination is Chengdu, Guiyang, Xi'an, Zhengzhou, Fuyang and other southwest, northwest and Central Plains. The largest single group has more than 1000 people. Most of the 17 chartered trains of

are scheduled to start before January 18, avoiding the peak passenger flow from January 18 to 22. "If such a large-scale passenger group is not organized, but travels by individual scattered way, passengers need to go through a series of procedures such as ticket purchase and riding, and the orderly travel of railway passenger transport organization and other scattered passengers may be affected to some extent. We welcome more scattered migrant passengers to take the bus in groups. " Said Li Yi, deputy head of Shanghai railway station. The

Spring Festival transportation is the first new service launched by Yangtze River Delta railway in China in 2020. According to the railway department, the launch of this service is due to the sharp increase of passenger transport capacity in spring this year. In the coming spring transport, the Yangtze River Delta railway plans to arrange 1000 pairs of passenger trains, 276 pairs of additional passenger trains; the total number of trains to be operated reaches 1276 (including 950 pairs of EMU trains), an increase of 124.5 pairs, a year-on-year increase of 10.8%.

not only local governments, trade unions and enterprises, but also social organizations provide group charter services for local migrant workers in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. Some organizers also provide free tickets and meals for migrant workers who participate in group charter, helping more migrant workers return home safely and get together for the Spring Festival.

it is reported that before January 25, 2020, the Yangtze River Delta railway can still handle group charter service for Spring Festival transportation. As long as the groups organized by enterprises and institutions and the public welfare organizations organized by government agencies and enterprises and institutions take the same day and the same train, and the group number is not less than 300, they can apply for the customized service of "group charter" through the special window of the relevant station. The railway department will formulate and organize the implementation of group charter travel plan when conditions permit according to the application qualification review, charter demand and spring transportation capacity. "Group charter" customized service acceptance stations are mainly those in Shanghai, Suzhou, Changzhou, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Yiwu, Jinhua, Wenzhou, Hefei, Fuyang, Xuzhou and other cities.