Train website including Transfer points?
Jan 5, 2015 | 12:49 am
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Train website including Transfer points?
Is there a website which can show me the best route with transfer if there is no direct train between two stations?
I'm interesting in the most convenient connection between Nanjing and Zhangjiajie. Personally I would say Nanjing to Changsha by G train, then Changsha to Changde by K train and then a bus to Zhangjiajie.
I'm interesting in the most convenient connection between Nanjing and Zhangjiajie. Personally I would say Nanjing to Changsha by G train, then Changsha to Changde by K train and then a bus to Zhangjiajie.
Jan 5, 2015 | 6:24 am
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The China Rail site at www.12306.cn does this, but it's in Chinese. In any event, it's rather like connections produced by airline sites: sometimes OK, but sometimes not the best. All in, I think you're better off trying to construct your own itinerary.
Jan 5, 2015 | 8:53 am
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I put a lot more stock in chornedsnorkack for advice of this nature than any "agent", but would personally end up piecing the train segments together on 12306 (very simple, if you can read Chinese) and calling the bus company (identify details via Baidu) in order to pull off the final leg.
Jan 5, 2015 | 11:32 am
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From Changsha you have 2 overnight trains going direct to Zhangjiajie (02:18 and 03:36/ K536; T8316)
If you leave Nanjing South 15:28 you arrive at Changsha South 21:36 (G 1483).
Or you take the 1st train (G579) from Nanjing at 08:02 in the morning, be in Changsha at 12:52 and take the long distance bus to Zhangjiajie.
Another way is a flight from Shanghai to Zhangjiajie.
If you leave Nanjing South 15:28 you arrive at Changsha South 21:36 (G 1483).
Or you take the 1st train (G579) from Nanjing at 08:02 in the morning, be in Changsha at 12:52 and take the long distance bus to Zhangjiajie.
Another way is a flight from Shanghai to Zhangjiajie.
Jan 5, 2015 | 2:16 pm
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I put a lot more stock in chornedsnorkack for advice of this nature than any "agent", but would personally end up piecing the train segments together on 12306 (very simple, if you can read Chinese) and calling the bus company (identify details via Baidu) in order to pull off the final leg.
12306 used to have this function but not sure that it is there anymore as I can't find it.
Jan 5, 2015 | 11:53 pm
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From Changsha you have 2 overnight trains going direct to Zhangjiajie (02:18 and 03:36/ K536; T8316)
If you leave Nanjing South 15:28 you arrive at Changsha South 21:36 (G 1483).
Or you take the 1st train (G579) from Nanjing at 08:02 in the morning, be in Changsha at 12:52 and take the long distance bus to Zhangjiajie.
If you leave Nanjing South 15:28 you arrive at Changsha South 21:36 (G 1483).
Or you take the 1st train (G579) from Nanjing at 08:02 in the morning, be in Changsha at 12:52 and take the long distance bus to Zhangjiajie.
Jan 6, 2015 | 4:48 am
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Here's someone asking the same question in April, 2014, on a Chinese message board. Two people answered the same: buses every hour 7am to 7pm from 长沙汽车南站 Changsha South Bus Station. One person said West Bus Station also has departures.
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/157...638125980.html (in Chinese)
Maybe winter departures are less frequent.
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/157...638125980.html (in Chinese)
Maybe winter departures are less frequent.