Originally Posted by
moondog
Having never been to Fangchenggang, I can't comment on whether or not day trips would be desirable, but I do think this HSR stuff is really great for Nanning. We now have Guilin (sort of connected to Changsha), Liuzhou, and this coastal route.
There are 9 high speed trains daily Nanning to Liuzhou, 223 km away, all of them are nonstop and take 1:34 save D8216 that for some reason takes 1:29. All of them except one go on to Guilin. The departures Nanning-Liuzhou are from 6:25 to 20:50. The return trips Liuzhou-Nanning leave from 8:40 to 21:51.
No high speed train gets through Guilin. There are 3 trains daily Guilin-Changsha, of which 1 goes to Beijing.