Duncan Peattie's Chinese Railway Timetable
Full Timetable
My full Chinese Railway Timetable gives details for more than 3,900 trains, including every train shown in the official timetable. The timetable contains many useful features, including an index map, an index (in Pinyin and Chinese characters) to the nearly 1,000 stations shown, information about travelling by train in China and a copyable, bilingual booking form to assist with the purchase of train tickets.
The latest (seventh) edition was published on 11 October 2011 and is based on the timetable introduced in July 2011.
As an experiment for this edition I have chosen to make the timetable available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licence. In simple terms this means that the timetable pdf file may be freely copied, distributed or transmitted, complete and unaltered, for non-commercial purposes. Details of the specific licence conditions which apply are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ and general information about Creative Commons is available at http://creativecommons.org/. Should you wish to use the timetable other than in accordance with these conditions, for example for commercial purposes, you are welcome to contact me to discuss.
Whilst I have chosen to make the timetable freely available subject to these conditions, it remains the case that compilation of the timetable involves considerable time and effort and I hope you will agree that it is a worthwhile and valuable document. Accordingly I invite you to consider making a donation towards defraying the costs involved. Should you wish to do so please see below for further information.
The timetable is available as a .pdf file (size about 2.1MB). You can download it here or here.
If neither of the links above work for you (this can depend on your location) please click here or if all else fails contact me and I will send the file as an email attachment.
I make updated information available between editions - for the latest information click here.
To see if the timetable is suitable for you, you may like to look at purchasers' opinions of previous editions of the timetable.
Registration
If you have downloaded the timetable I invite you to register with me. This serves two purposes:
1. It gives me useful feedback about timetable users - how many there are, where they are and what they use the timetable for.
2. It enables you (only if you so choose) to be kept up to date with information about changes to the timetable.
REGISTRATION IS OPTIONAL - although I encourage you at least to let me know a little about your use of the timetable.
Until I develop forms for the purpose (a learning exercise for me!) please simply send me an email letting me know as much or as little as you wish about yourself and your use of the timetable. Unless you explicitly ask me to keep you advised of timetable developments I will assume that you do not want any further contact.
Donation
If you would like to make a donation towards my work in compiling and publishing the timetable, here is how you can do so:
DONATION IS OPTIONAL (at risk of stating the obvious!) - and is completely separate from registration. You may register, or donate, or both, or neither.
My suggested donation is US$20 or equivalent, being the price of the previous .pdf edition of the timetable. However this is only a suggetion - you are welcome to donate less (or indeed more!). And you are welcome to donate in your own currency if it is supported by Paypal or is listed below.
Please choose your preferred method/currency of donation:
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