37 railway stations in China to adopt real-name system for train tickets!

37 railway stations in China to adopt real-name system for train tickets!
Jan 9, 2010 00:14
LONELYJOURNEY Points: Join Date: Oct 28, 2009 Status: offline	Those who once bought train tickets in China have already known how hard it is to get a train ticket during Spring Festival Transport period. To solve this problem, many people have strongly suggested that China should adopt real-name system for rail tickets sales. Now China is to adopt train ticket real-name system in 37 railway stations during this year’s Spring Festival Transport period. As usual, passengers have to buy their real-name tickets TEN days in advance. From 7:00 o’clock on Jan. 21 of 2010, passengers can buy tickets on Jan 30. From January 30 to February 13, Guangzhou, Guangzhou East, Guangzhou North, Foshan, Shenzhen, Shenzhen West, Dongguan East, Huizhou and Shantou Railway Stations will sell real-name tickets. But D trains from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, direct trains from Guangzhou to Kowloon and High-speed trains from Wuhan to Guangzhou are not included. From February 14 to March 10, Yueyang, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Leiyang, Chenzhou, Zhangjiajie, Jishou, Huaihua, Tongren, Changde, Yiyang, Loudi, Shaoyang, Yongzhou, Xupu,Xinhua, Chengdu, Chengdu South, Chongqing, Chongqing North, Nanchong, Guiyang, Dazhou, Zunyi, Neijiang, Wanzhou and Panzhihua Railway Stations will adopt real-name system for train tickets. As for foreign passengers, they have to use their passports, Permit for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macau or residence permits to buy tickets. The real name ticket sample.

Jan 9, 2010 00:14

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Those who once bought train tickets in China have already known how hard it is to get a train ticket during Spring Festival Transport period. To solve this problem, many people have strongly suggested that China should adopt real-name system for rail tickets sales. Now China is to adopt train ticket real-name system in 37 railway stations during this year’s Spring Festival Transport period.

As usual, passengers have to buy their real-name tickets TEN days in advance. From 7:00 o’clock on Jan. 21 of 2010, passengers can buy tickets on Jan 30.

From January 30 to February 13, Guangzhou, Guangzhou East, Guangzhou North, Foshan, Shenzhen, Shenzhen West, Dongguan East, Huizhou and Shantou Railway Stations will sell real-name tickets. But D trains from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, direct trains from Guangzhou to Kowloon and High-speed trains from Wuhan to Guangzhou are not included.

From February 14 to March 10, Yueyang, Changsha, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Leiyang, Chenzhou, Zhangjiajie, Jishou, Huaihua, Tongren, Changde, Yiyang, Loudi, Shaoyang, Yongzhou, Xupu,Xinhua, Chengdu, Chengdu South, Chongqing, Chongqing North, Nanchong, Guiyang, Dazhou, Zunyi, Neijiang, Wanzhou and Panzhihua Railway Stations will adopt real-name system for train tickets.

As for foreign passengers, they have to use their passports, Permit for Travelling to and from Hong Kong and Macau or residence permits to buy tickets.

The real name ticket sample.

Jan 12, 2010 22:03	#1
CHERRY07 Points: Join Date: Mar 23, 2008 Status: Offline	"D trains from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, direct trains from Guangzhou to Kowloon and High-speed trains from Wuhan to Guangzhou are not included." Why are there some exceptions? Let's see if we can fight the train tickets scalpers by adopting real-name system.

Jan 14, 2010 01:26	#2
KEVIN0518 Points: Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Status: Offline	Is there anyone here who bought a real-name train ticket? I would like to see what it looked like.

Jan 23, 2010 23:15

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There was a missing piece of information in your post LonelyJo: what do you mean by 'real name ticket'. It deduced eventually - from the bit about foreigners needing to produce their passports - that you mean the traveller's name is printed on the ticket (as I can't read Chinese, the ticket image didn't help).

It seems a good idea for beating the scalpers but I can see even bigger queues at ticket offices while the information is recorded. And what about buying a ticket for family members who do not live in your home, maybe they live in 50 or 100 km away and will stop with you first..... you will not be able to get their ID card in time to buy a ticket.

Foreigners names should prove interesting: Chinese names are never more than 3 characters, but western family names can be quite long. Mine is a moderate 8 characters, but 20 is possible. I wonder if there will be space.

Jan 30, 2010 02:58	#4
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Paul, you thought a lot on this issue. Are you currently in Guangzhou? Probably, you might give it a shot and then tell us how it works.

Feb 6, 2010 03:39	#5
BBQQ Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: Offline	Now D trains begin to run from Zhengzhou to Xi'an sinc today. It takes more than two hours. But it is expensive. The first soft class costs CNY 390 and the second class, CNY 240.

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