A train every 40 seconds: how Chinese rail station handled record 1 million trips in a day
Holiday demand pushes Guangzhou South past 1 million trips on October 1, with trains departing every 40 seconds at peak periods
A railway station in southern China’s hub city Guangzhou has set a national record for trips in a single day and drawn attention for the frequency of train departures – one every 40 seconds – during this month’s holiday period, according to the provincial government.
Crossing the 1 million-trip milestone was a first for China, it added.
At peak periods that day, trains departed every 40 seconds, an interval the publicity department said was “faster than people could scroll through short videos”.
