China HSR News And Information: Original Translation

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CRH250 @AndrewJin

Prototype in 2016？

 

[AndrewJin]

Making a proposal on the high-speed train
1月16日，列车安全员张李春运前的最后一个休息日，他决定向乘高铁旅行的女友求婚。张李今年29岁，来自安徽淮南，大学毕业后参军，2013年底转业到上海铁路局杭州客运段高铁二队。女友小杨是安徽淮南一名医生，两人在相亲活动中认识，相处至今已一年多。 为了这次求婚，他抱着99朵玫瑰，先从浙江杭州乘高铁至江苏溧阳，再从溧阳站登上高铁与女友会合。张李的不少同事，也都放弃了休息，赶到列车上为他加油助威。 在众多高铁旅客的共同见证下，小杨答应了张李的求婚。两人短暂相聚数小时，小杨就乘高铁返回安徽。张李则留在杭州，备战他工作生涯中的第三个春运。 张李说：“这次春运结束后，我们就结婚。”

16 January was the last weekend before Spring Festival Travel Rush for train safety supervisor Zhang Li who is now working in Hangzhou HSR No.2 Team, Shanghai Railway Bureau. He decided to make a proposal to his girlfriend, Xiaoyang, a doctor in Huainan, Anhui Province. He took a bullet train from Hangzhou to Liyang where he joined her girlfriend on the train to surprise her. Many of his colleagues gave up their weekend holidays to witness this precious moment on the flying bullet. After spending several hours together they took bullet trains back to their respective cities, Hangzhou and Huainan, with blessings from passengers on the train. Zhang Li would be busy preparing for the third Spring Festival Travel Rush in his career and he said they would marry right after this travel rush.

Nervous!
waiting at Hangzhou East Railway Station, Hangzhou City

At Liyang Railway Station

Preparing the flower floor

Surprise!

Blessings!

The last photo before Spring Festival Travel Rush

@anant_s @Götterdämmerung @UKBengali @Bussard Ramjet @ahojunk @Dungeness @JSCh

CRH250 @AndrewJin

Prototype in 2016？

Could u summarise pls?

 

[anant_s]

Making a proposal on the high-speed train
1月16日，列车安全员张李春运前的最后一个休息日，他决定向乘高铁旅行的女友求婚。张李今年29岁，来自安徽淮南，大学毕业后参军，2013年底转业到上海铁路局杭州客运段高铁二队。女友小杨是安徽淮南一名医生，两人在相亲活动中认识，相处至今已一年多。 为了这次求婚，他抱着99朵玫瑰，先从浙江杭州乘高铁至江苏溧阳，再从溧阳站登上高铁与女友会合。张李的不少同事，也都放弃了休息，赶到列车上为他加油助威。 在众多高铁旅客的共同见证下，小杨答应了张李的求婚。两人短暂相聚数小时，小杨就乘高铁返回安徽。张李则留在杭州，备战他工作生涯中的第三个春运。 张李说：“这次春运结束后，我们就结婚。”

16 January was the last weekend before Spring Festival Travel Rush for train safety supervisor Zhang Li who is now working in Hangzhou HSR No.2 Team, Shanghai Railway Bureau. He decided to make a proposal to her girlfriend, Xiaoyang, a doctor in Huainan, Anhui Province. He took a bullet train from Hangzhou to Liyang where he joined her girlfriend on the train to surprise her. Many of his colleagues gave up their weekend holidays to witness this precious moment on the flying bullet. After spending several hours on the trai they took bullet trains back to their respective cities, Hangzhou and Huainan, with blessings from passengers on the train. Zhang Li would be busy preparing for the 3 third Spring Festival Travel Rush in his career and he said they would marry right after this travel rush.

Nervous!
waiting at Hangzhou East Railway Station, Hangzhou City
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At Liyang Railway Station
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Preparing the flower floor
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Surprise!
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Blessings!
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The last photo before Spring Festival Travel Rush
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@anant_s @Götterdämmerung @UKBengali @Bussard Ramjet @ahojunk @Dungeness @JSCh


Could u summarise pls?

Thats a very sweet story
I wish Xiaoyang and Zhang Li, a great life together ahead.
God Bless them.

PS: Thought u guys would also love this story
@Levina @thesolar65 @nair

 

[AndrewJin]

Thats a very sweet story
I wish Xiaoyang and Zhang Li, a great life together ahead.
God Bless them.

PS: Thought u guys would also love this story
@Levina @thesolar65 @nair

Very busy time for those railway staff in the coming Spring Festival Travel Rush(24 Jan- 3 March), they should have higher salary!

 

[anant_s]

they should have higher salary!

oh absolutely.
Railway staff ensures that everyone reaches their destination in time for festivities by working hard.
So a little financial bonus is thoroughly deserved.

 

[Bussard Ramjet]

Thats a very sweet story
I wish Xiaoyang and Zhang Li, a great life together ahead.
God Bless them.

PS: Thought u guys would also love this story
@Levina @thesolar65 @nair

Love is a human feeling. No matter which culture, or side you are, you are always rejoiced by hearing such stories.

 

[AndrewJin]

China's railways embrace travel peak
Spring Festival travel rush to officially commence on 24 January
Photo taken on Jan.17, 2016 shows passengers in railway station of Shijiazhuang, capital of China's Hebei Province. (Xinhua/Mou Yu)

 

[ahojunk]

Looking at the number of people, those ticket machines and check-in machines are given quite a workout.

They have to be pretty reliable otherwise there will be angry customers!

@AndrewJin

Do you have more information about them?

 

[AndrewJin]

Looking at the number of people, those ticket machines and check-in machines are given quite a workout.

They have to be pretty reliable otherwise there will be angry customers!

@AndrewJin

Do you have more information about them?

U mean check-in machines and ticket vending machines?

 

[ahojunk]

U mean check-in machines and ticket vending machines?

Yes.

 

[ahojunk]

Shanghai Railway Makes Full Preparation for Chunyun
2016-01-18 10:27:23 | CRIENGLISH.com | Web Editor: Huang Yue

Jan 17, 2016. Machinists maintaining and examining trains in Shanghai. Shanghai Railway Bureau has carried out the repair schedule to make full preparation for the upcoming Chunyun, the Spring Festival travel season. [Photo: Xinhua/Chen Fei]

Jan 17, 2016. Machinists maintaining and examining trains in Shanghai. Shanghai Railway Bureau has carried out the repair schedule to make full preparation for the upcoming Chunyun, the Spring Festival travel season. [Photo: Xinhua/Chen Fei]

Jan 17, 2016. Machinists maintaining and examining trains in Shanghai. Shanghai Railway Bureau has carried out the repair schedule to make full preparation for the upcoming Chunyun, the Spring Festival travel season. [Photo: Xinhua/Chen Fei]

Jan 17, 2016. Machinists maintaining and examining trains in Shanghai. Shanghai Railway Bureau has carried out the repair schedule to make full preparation for the upcoming Chunyun, the Spring Festival travel season. [Photo: Xinhua/Chen Fei]

 

[AndrewJin]

Looking at the number of people, those ticket machines

Ticket machines enable passengers to buy tickets or print tickets very quickly with cash or bank cards.
However, only second-generation ID cards holders can use them since only such cards can be read automatically.

If a Chinese only holds a passport, family Hukou, certificate of officers, etc, he/she can only buy or pick tickets at the counter. Similarly, foreigners, HK/Macao/Taiwan residents have to go to the counter.

There are two types.
One is automatic ticket vending machine.
U can buy ticket with cash, credit card or deposit card.
U can also print tickets which u buy online, via APP or via telephone.

The other one is ticket printing machine.
Only printing pre-ordered ticket is allowed.

 

[anant_s]

This is Self Diagnostic feature, usually installed as an assistance for maintainers. It provides a lot of data such as bearing wear, critical clearances, stress on load bearing structure etc.

 

[AndrewJin]

check-in machines

@ahojunk
Check-in (gates/ticket checks)
I am showing u 3 photos.
The first one is a second-tier city(Hankou railway station), the second one is first-tier city(Shanghai Hongqiao transportation hub), the last one is a 4th-tier city(Xianning North). U can see there are gate numbers in the first 2 photos. In general there are 2 regions in a big terminal station, A and B, or North/South, West/East. A 16-car train will have separate check-in machines and respective waiting area, for example 11A for car1-8 and 11B for car9-16.

@anant_s See the second floor of the waiting room, a lot of restaurants, u can eat there or take away.

For a small station as shown in photo3, the waiting area is mixed because it is not a terminal station.

When check-in, (usually 15 minutes ahead of schedule at a terminal station, less time for a midway station) insert your blue magnet ticket in the machine and then. If the ticket is valid, the door will open and at the same time u should get back your ticket. If your ticket is a red one(not magnetic), then u have to line up in the staffed check-in which is just besides check-in machines. Another case is, if u are taking a 300km/h train on a pure 300km/h trunk line(your starting station and your ending station are both stations on a trunk 300km/h HSR), u can directly use your second-generation ID card to check-in without printing your ticket.

When check-out, repeat the same process.
U can see check-out tunnels are classified into blue ticket(automatic) and red ticket(staffed)
Check-out of Hankou Station of Wuhan

Check-out machines at a small station

Check-out at Shanghai Hongqiao

 

[ahojunk]

@AndrewJin

I know that some HSR stations are bigger than small airports.

To give the other readers here an indication of their size, can you post pictures of the waiting rooms at large and small HSR stations.

I am sure you will have pictures of them.