The first regular red-eye bullet train running from Shanghai to Beijing will start operation on May
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2016-05-17 15:15:22
The first regular red-eye bullet train running fromShanghai to Beijing will start operation on May 15,Shanghai railway police authority said on lastWednesday, the city's local news paper XinminEvening News reported.
Shanghai railway police said that the red-eye bullettrain, G8, will leave Shanghai Hongqiao RailwayStation at 7 pm and arrive at Beijing South RailwayStation at 11:48 pm.
It will be the first time that a bullet train running from Shanghai to Beijing will operate after 6pm. The train will return to Shanghai the next day. The ticket prices will be 933 yuan ($143.68)and 553 yuan, the same like the daytime ones.
The authorities said more police officers will be onboard on the red-eye bullet train to ensuresafety at night.
Another bullet train with sleeping cars, D312, which ran from Shanghai Railway Station toBeijing South Railway Station temporarily during the Spring Festival holiday, will also startregular operation later. It will leave Shanghai at 7:10 pm and arrive at Beijing at 7:07 am thenext day.
China Railway Corp, the country's railroad operator, said earlier this year that it would add "red-eye" bullet trains to its fixed operation schedule to cater for a growing demand.
China has seen a massive increase in train passengers in the past decade. Some 2.5 billionpassengers took trains in 2015, up 6.07 percent from a year earlier.