The staff of the “Hongyan Service Station” of Chongqing West Railway Station took a group photo with passengers on the G319 train holding a punch card.Photo by Wei Wei
People’s Daily Online, Chongqing, April 1st. “Eat small noodles in Chongqing in the morning, drink tea in a Hong Kong restaurant in the afternoon, and enjoy the fun of shopping. It’s a pleasant way to spend weekends like this!” At 7:00 on April 1st, in Chongqing On platform 14 of the West Railway Station, the check-in cards held by the station staff are cute, lively, and colorful. Passengers stopped to take pictures one after another. Eleven minutes later, they took train G319 to Hong Kong West Kowloon Station.
In order to further meet the travel needs of passengers from Chongqing and Hong Kong, from April 1, high-speed trains from Chongqing to Hong Kong resumed operation. Among them, the G319 train from Chongqing West Railway Station to Hong Kong West Kowloon Station departs from Chongqing West Railway Station at 7:11 and stops at Zunyi, Guiyang East, Guilin West, Zhaoqing East, Guangzhou South, Shenzhen North and other stations. It takes 57 minutes to arrive at Hong Kong West Kowloon Station, the whole journey is 1342 kilometers, and the running time is 8 hours and 46 minutes. The fare for the second-class seat is 628 yuan, the fare for the first-class seat is 1005 yuan, and the fare for the business seat is 1884 yuan. The return train departs from Hong Kong West Kowloon Station at 11:54 and arrives at Chongqing West Station at 20:36.
“The body of the G319 train that resumed operation today is in charge of the CR400AF-A Fuxing EMU. As the “Hongyan Service Station” of the national demonstration site for learning from Lei Feng, our station specially arranges personnel to carry out safety publicity for passengers on the platform. The train guidance work helps passengers to travel in a warm, orderly and convenient way.” According to the relevant person in charge of the “Hongyan Service Station” of Chongqing West Railway Station, a total of 732 tickets were sold for this train, 89 of which ended up at Hong Kong West Kowloon Station.
At the same time, Chongqing West Railway Station flexibly added ticket sales, refund and rebooking windows according to the passenger flow situation, and made arrangements in advance for staff replacement during peak hours; strengthened the maintenance of automatic ticket vending (taking) machines to ensure that they were in good condition; strengthened entry and exit gates , Escalators, escalators, flyovers, tunnels, platforms and other key areas of security card control, to ensure orderly boarding and landing of passengers; further strict implementation of various operating standards, go all out to provide passengers with convenient, efficient and high-quality services. (Hu Hong, Liu Zhenzhen)