The Hong Kong section of the high-speed rail resumed operation on Sunday (15th). At the beginning, there were 77 trains going north and south each day. Among them, 6 pairs of trains were on the newly added route to and from Guangzhou East Railway Station. In order to cooperate with the electronicization of tickets, passengers will have to go to the 12306 website in the Mainland or go to the West Kowloon Station of the Hong Kong High Speed Rail to purchase tickets in person. Tickets were first sold on the 12306 website at 12:00 noon yesterday, and it was only two hours later that the tickets went on sale at West Kowloon Station. Some people criticized the arrangement as being unfair to those who bought tickets in person, and some citizens directly criticized the MTR diversion arrangement for being unsatisfactory.
After the re-opening of the high-speed rail, there will be 38 northbound and 39 southbound short-distance routes every day at the initial stage. 5,000 tickets will be sold in each direction, and electronic tickets will be fully switched to match the mainland high-speed rail network. Passengers need to enter their personal ID information to buy tickets with their real names, and then they can enter the gate and board the bus with their home return permits and mainland resident ID cards. The MTR pointed out that passengers use the newly added self-service channel to enter the gate, and the inspection time can be shortened from a few minutes to a few seconds. Passengers can still use the staffed auxiliary channel in the future and present their identity documents for real-name verification and ticket inspection.
To buy tickets online, you must go to “12306 Net” in the Mainland
In the past, apart from purchasing tickets in person, Hong Kong people could purchase tickets through the ticketing system of the MTR website, but now they have to log in to their personal accounts on the Mainland 12306 website to purchase tickets. Mainland Travel Permit”, and receive a verification code by mobile phone or email. Members of the public need to be aware that if the traditional characters of the name cannot be entered, the corresponding simplified characters should be used instead. After successfully selecting a ticket on the website, citizens can use Mainland online banking, international credit cards, Alipay or WeChat accounts to pay for the fare.
Hundreds of citizens went to West Kowloon Station to buy tickets in person yesterday because they were not familiar with using the online ticketing system, repeated verification failures, and failed to log in to the website. However, the sales at West Kowloon Station started two hours later than the website, that is, the waiting time for citizens “started” to buy tickets two hours later. The station opened for ticket purchase at 2 p.m. Cake”, Longwei once extended to the footbridge connecting the adjacent shopping mall.
West Kowloon Station Ticket Buyer Dragon Snake Cake
Some citizens were impatient and clamoring, criticizing the failure to buy tickets after waiting for several hours, and some directly criticized the poor diversion arrangement of the MTR. In addition, a member of the public who was waiting said that the information on ticket sales was confusing. He learned that the ticket sales would start at noon and he arrived immediately. Finally, he found that the ticket purchase at the counter was two hours later than online, which he described as being unfair to those in line. Yesterday, this newspaper inquired about the reasons for the West Kowloon Station website’s ticket sales being two hours late to the MTR, but no reply was received before the deadline.
Tickets to Guangzhou East are all sold out until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year
The website started selling tickets for two weeks at 12:00 noon yesterday, adding a new route to and from Guangzhou East. All trips from the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year (26th) were sold out. Our reporter logged on to the ticketing website at 11:00 last night and found that the tickets for Guangzhou South and Futian departing from Hong Kong on the first day of operation were sold out, while there was only one train left for Shenzhen North. MTR Passenger Services Director Yang Meizhen was asked yesterday whether the new ticket purchase arrangement would cause inconvenience, she described it as “the process expected at the beginning”, allowing passengers to enjoy the same experience at West Kowloon Station and stations across the country. Buy round-trip tickets in one go.
Originally published on AM730 https://www.am730.com.hk/Local/Citizens rush to fly – 1.15 high-speed rail reopens – fully switch to electronic tickets -/357013?utm_source=yahoorss&utm_medium=referral
