The Shanghai–Hangzhou high-speed railway (), also known as the Huhang high-speed railway or Huhang passenger railway is a

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line in China between

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

and

Hangzhou Hangzhou, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly romanized as Hangchow is a sub-provincial city in East China and the capital of Zhejiang province. With a population of 13 million, the municipality comprises ten districts, two counti ...

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. The line is in length and designed for commercial train service at . It was built in 20 months and opened on October 26, 2010. The line shortened travel time between the two cities from 78 to 45 minutes. The line is also used by trains departing Shanghai's terminals for

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, and

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making it part of the Shanghai–Kunming High-Speed Railway. It has made the proposed Shanghai–Hangzhou Maglev Line unlikely.

Speed records

In September 2010, a test train on the Shanghai-Hangzhou high-speed line achieved a speed of setting a Chinese train speed record. In October 2010, Chinese officials stated that a bullet train on the Huhang high-speed railway had set a new world record for train speed on a ''scheduled'' trip at .

Etymology

"'" () is the official abbreviation for

and "'" () stands for

, the capital city of

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Station list

There are nine

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

s on the line: * Shanghai Hongqiao railway station * Shanghai Songjiang railway station * Jinshan North railway station * Jiashan South railway station * Jiaxing South railway station * Tongxiang railway station * Haining West railway station *

Linping South railway station Linpingnan (Linping South) railway station ( zh, s=临平南站, p=Línpíngnán zhàn, formerly Yuhang railway station) is a railway station of the Shanghai–Hangzhou high-speed railway located in Linping District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. H ...

* Hangzhou East railway station * Hangzhou railway station On July 1, 2013, the new Hangzhou East station was opened which serves the Shanghai–Hangzhou Passenger Railway, as well as the Hangzhou–Ningbo high-speed railway, the Nanjing–Hangzhou Passenger Railway, and the Hangzhou–Changsha high-speed railway. From 2025, a branch line to Shanghai South will open to relieve overcrowding at Hongqiao station.

References

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