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Shanghai South Railway Station: the start of a most environmental friendly...
Tom Mercer from Simple Green Choices (this blog might not be accessible in China if you don’t have a proxy server) has great resources in green travel. And his post about travel options has been my...
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Shanghai Railway Station: a guide
Shanghai Railway Station (Shanghai Huoche Zhan, 上海火车站, a.k.a. Shanghai Station, 上海站) is also known as New Passenger Railway Station (Xin Kezhan, 新客站) by Shanghai residents to distinguish it from the...
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Beijing – Tianjin High-Speed Railway: Tianjin in 30 Minutes (Part II)
All Aboard! So we made it. Into the thing that’s supposed to do 350 km/h, Beijing-Tianjin, 30 minutes, zippy fast, laser speed… vomit comet? (We picked that one off Twitter.) That’s the thing. See, the...
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Beijing Train Station Escalator Suddenly Reverses Direction
One of the injured at the hospital for treatment Dozens of people fall in an escalator accident at Beijing’s West Train Station 3 people are sent to the hospital, The injured say the escalator suddenly...
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Shanghai to Beijing: Take the Train or the Plane?
In all my years in China, believe it or not, I’ve never been to Beijing. Well, a transfer through Terminal 3 doesn’t count, right? It isn’t as if I’ve been holed up in Shanghai the entire time either,...
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Overnight Trains In China: Accommodations & Amenities
Honestly, I can't figure out from where or what angle this photo was taken, but it looks great. So I decided to take the overnight train to Beijing… Shanghai Railway Station, the New Trains, and their...
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Beijing’s Accent, Pollution, and Subway…Welcomes Me
I thought Beijing would look like this... So the hard sleeper train ride on my way here was just fine… Beijing’s Accent, Pollution, and Subway Welcomes Me At a farmer-friendly 7:00am, the announcer...
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Expo Volunteers, Security, And The Shanghai Metro
Something’s brewing in the metro in Shanghai today. Aside from the sudden sprout of the Expo volunteer stations or information booths… …now this is what they meant when they said there will be a lot of...
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A Dummy’s Guide To Riding The Maglev
I did something crazy yesterday. I rode the Maglev one-way to Pudong International Airport, walked around Terminal 2, then went back home again. Ok, well, maybe not so crazy. I had reasons for doing...
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