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Four Trains a Day on a High Speed Line in and around the Chinese Capital? [09 April 2025]

There's one High Speed line around Beijing which has — just four trains a day — serving Daxing Airport. This has David Feng more than a bit concerned — obviously a bit more than the once-a-week (probably) Parliamentary train on Chiltern Railways between London Paddington and West Ruislip. But is it a new line well used? Well, at least, it's there, good to go, with actual trains in actual operation!...

Daxing Airport and Tianjin West - New Rail Line, and Lines! [08 April 2025]

David Feng recorded this actually onboard a train — a service from Daxing Airport to Tianjin West. He talks about how these stations will get new lines — but also how the railways now run services across many lines in a far more streamlined way, integrating more of the network together.

Shanghai Hongqiao Station's Train Connection Woes [07 April 2025]

Shanghai Hongqiao railway station in China's largest city is big — busy — connected — and yet, the Express Transfer routes for making train connections is far from ideal. Either you have to haul your baggage up stairs — or wait for a lift that, too quickly, and too often, gets crammed with passengers... (But then again, this is one of the earliest interchange hubs in the network...)

An Important DavidTrainMic Announcement

An important update from David Feng and the DavidTrainMic mini-podcast... we are moving to daily updates!

Impromptu Announcement 11 - China, India, South Asia, and Overloaded Trains

Overloaded trains remain a problem in South Asia — Bangladesh, in particular, but India is also seeing a lot of riders. In China, this was previously a problem as well — people were even getting onboard via the windows!... Things are, however, quite different these days in the High Speed era...