Beijing Train

As the busiest rail transport hub of the world’s largest railway network, Beijing is the starting point of Beijing – Shanghai, Beijing – Guangzhou, Beijing – Harbin, Beijing – Kowloon (HK) and Beijing - Tongliao railway lines which are among the planned 8 vertical (North-South) and 8 horizontal lines (East-West) high speed railway network. Beijing is the only city that connects four major economic circles including Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, northeast and northwest.

 See also:
China High Speed Railway Map
China Train Tickets
 

Mainly operating trains to northeastern and eastern China; responsible for the operation of Beijing – Tangshan High-speed Railway, Beijing – Harbin and Beijing – Tongliao General-speed Railway.

 The starting station of the Beijing-Shanghai High-speed Railway which undertakes high-speed railway transportation in the Yangtze River Delta region (Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, etc.) and the gateway of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Intercity Railway. 

Major Destinations	Duration	Fare
Shanghai	7h	CNY 667
Nanjing	4.5h	CNY 464
Suzhou	5h	CNY 593

The terminal station of Beijing – Guangzhou High-speed Railway, and Beijing – Kowloon High-speed Railway, Beijing  Kunming High-speed Railway and Beijing – Xiong’an Intercity Railway.

Major Destinations	Duration	Fare
Zhengzhou	2.5h	CNY 371
Wuhan	5.5h	CNY 520
Changsha	7h	CNY 649
Guilin	8h	CNY 949
Hong Kong	8h	CNY 1,248

Undertaking the running of Beijing – Zhangjiakou High-speed Railway and Beijing Suburban Railway Huairou-Miyun Line (S5); operating bullet trains to Badaling Great Wall.

Major Destinations	Duration	Fare
Hohhot	3.5h	CNY 179
Zhangjiakou	1h	CNY 82
Taiyuan	3.5h	CNY 266
Datong	2h	CNY 152
Xi'an	7h	CNY 454

 The biggest railway hub in Beijing – operating normal railways like Beijing – Guangzhou, Fengtai – Shacheng, Beijing – Yuanping, Beijing – Shanghai, Beijing – Harbin and Beijing – Baotou Railway, and Beijing - Xiong’an - Shangqiu High-speed Railway.

Mainly responsible for Beijing – Harbin high-speed train departures and arrivals and operating bullet trains to northeastern China.

Major Destinations	Duration	Fare
Harbin	5h	CNY 595.5
Shenyang	3h	CNY 350
Changchun	4h	CNY 487

The terminal station of Beijing – Zhangjiakou High-speed Intercity Railway, Beijing – Baotou High-speed Railway and Beijing – Badaling High Speed Railway; the middle station of the suburban Huairou – Miyun Railway (S5)

This line runs through Beijing and Beijing West Railway Station, and Tongzhou District, the sub-center where People’s Government of Beijing Municipality is located. The line is designed mainly for people commuting between Tongzhou and downtown Beijing. It takes only 35 minutes from Tongzhou to Beijing West.

Running from Huangtuling to Yanqing, this line passes by Badaling and Juyongguan Great Wall. Passengers can see the great walls on the mountains along the way. In March and April, the train sees the apricot blossom at the foot of Juyongguan Great Wall, thus it gets the name the train to spring.
 

S5 at a cost of only CNY 12 for the whole journey lines up famous attractions including Yanqi Lake, Mutianyu Great Wall and Jinshanling Great Wall. Tourists can get off at Yanqi Lake surrounded by mountains to watch flocks of birds like wild geese, swans and cranes, at Huairou North to Mutianyu Great Wall, or at Gubeikou to hike and camp on Jinshanling Great Wall and appreciate the sunset.
 

Beijing intercity railway lines are kind of supplementary to the main railway lines to neighboring provinces and cities. Beijing-Tianjin, Beijing-Xiong’an, Beijing - Binhai and Beijing-Tangshan intercity railroads link up city clusters in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and shorten the travel time between these cities to 0.5 - 1.5 hours.

It serves passengers from Beijing suburban areas like Huairou, Shunyi, Miyun, Tongzhou and Daxing District and Langfang City of Hebei to Daxing Airport.
 

From Tianjin West to Daxing Airport, the travel time is only 40 minutes and it takes only 5 minutes to exit from Daxing Airport train platform to check-in areas, even faster than setting off from Beijing downtown.