Comfort and convenience are what makes high-speed rail travel competitive and appealing. Hongkongers have had a taste of that since the commissioning in 2018 of the local 26km (16 mile) section linking with the 40,000km national rail network. The increasingly popular mode of cross-border transportation is further reinforcing its services, including overnight sleeper trains to Beijing and Shanghai for the first time.
Hopefully, it will open new frontiers for tourism and business development.
It is good to hear that the travel time could be halved when the previous through trains running between Hung Hom in Hong Kong and the two mainland cities are replaced by high-speed services with sleeper coaches from the West Kowloon station starting…
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