On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, Beijing Fengtai Station, passengers took the elevator out of the station. According to the China State Railway Group***, on February 19, the national railway sent 1404 passengers30,000 passengers, since the Spring Festival on January 26, the national railway has sent more than 300 million passengers, after the holiday railway to visit relatives, tourism, students, workers and other passenger flow superimposed, passenger travel demand is strong, passenger flow to maintain a high level of operation. Photo by Yang Yuran.
On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, the G684 train from Jincheng, Shanxi Province to Beijing, the luggage of passengers was placed at the junction of the carriages, and only half of the space was left in the aisle for people to come and go. It is the peak of the return of the Spring Festival and the beginning of the college season, and half of the passengers in the carriage are returning college students.
It was the last day for Railway 12306 to provide reservation and ticket purchase services for students and migrant workers during the Spring Festival travel period. "Students, migrant workers reservation ticket purchase" area by the railway department during this year's Spring Festival for the first time, since January 10 0:00, for eligible students and workers to provide a more convenient reservation ticket purchase channel, eligible passengers and friends can 17 days before 23 o'clock in the 12306 mobile client to submit ticket purchase needs, 16 days before the departure of the query of the cash results. Among them, students can submit 20 different "train number + seat" requirements for the same travel date for a single reservation order, and migrant workers can submit 1 "train number + seat" demand for the same travel date for each reservation order. Many student travelers have successfully cashed out Spring Festival tickets through this function, while some passengers have failed to cash out due to mismatched demand time and fewer trains. Wang from Wuhan University once booked the G695 train for two consecutive days, but both showed that "due to the adjustment of capacity resources" failed to cash. Since there is only one high-speed rail and one general express train from his hometown to Wuhan, Wang submitted 11 waitlist orders with a total of 13 seats through the method of "buying long and short" and transferring in Zhengzhou, and finally waited for the high-speed rail ticket to transit in Zhengzhou on the second day of school. Photo by Yang Yuran.
On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, on the G684 train, a seatless mother with her two children sat near the door of the train and rested on her luggage. Photo by Yang Yuran.
On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, on the G684 train, a seatless passenger stood by the door. Photo by Yang Yuran.
On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, on the G684 train, passengers rested in their seats, hanging fruits brought on the train next to them. Photo by Yang Yuran.
On February 19, the tenth day of the first lunar month, Beijing Fengtai Station, arriving passengers pulled luggage with hometown specialties out of the station one after another. Photo by Yang Yuran.
*: China Youth Daily client.