Five more mainland stations included in High Speed Rail’s resumption in April

Five more stations will be included in the full service resumption of the High Speed Rail (HSR) in April, connecting Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Station to a total of 66 mainland stations. Advance ticket sales will start this Thursday (Mar 23). 

The five additional stations are Changping Station, Huizhoubei Station, Heyuandong Station, Ganzhouxi Station, and Shengfang Stations. 

Trains running between West Kowloon Station and Shanghai Hongqiao will use a new route which will shorten the traveling time by about 20 minutes to about eight hours and pass-through the new destinations of Huizhoubei, Heyuandong and Ganzhouxi. 

Four daily trains running between West Kowloon Station and Guangzhoudong Station will stop at the new Changping Station instead of Dongguan Station. 

Southbound trains from Tianjinxi Station to West Kowloon Station will stop at the new Shengfang Station; and Huizhounan Station and Huidong Station will be renamed as Huiyang Station and Huidongnan Station respectively, starting from April 10. 

MTR said the adjustments in the routes and stations of the HSR trains will be made in accordance with latest arrangements on the mainland, to further enhance services. 

The train company added HSR has been operating smoothly since the gradual resumption of short-haul trips and train services in Guangdong Province in January this year. 

The recommencement of cross-provincial long-haul train services starting from April 1 will bring the daily train frequency from 102 at present, up to the pre-Covid level of 164, marking the full resumption of normal cross-boundary service, MTR also said. 

“Easter will be the first long holiday after Hong Kong resumes to normalcy, and strong demand for outbound travel is expected. 

“We hope that the timely resumption of HSR service will provide travelers with more choices and better serve passengers with convenient, fast, comfortable and reliable train services to travel around the mainland of China,” said Jeny Yeung Mei-chun, Hong Kong Transport Services Director of MTR.