Smoker delays China's newly launched bullet train

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China National News
Thursday 31st December, 2009
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New Delhi, Dec 31 : An unruly smoker stopped the newly launched high-speed train in China and thousands of passengers were left stranded in Guangdong Province.

The express, boasting a designed speed of 350-km-per-hour, connects Wuhan, a metropolis in central China, and Guangzhou City, a business hub in the southern Guangdong Province.

The service started on Saturday, Xinhua reports.

A passenger, who smoked on the No.G1048 train, triggered the alarm and delayed the train that was scheduled to leave Guangzhou at 3:00 p.m.

Several trains were sequentially stranded, until the No.G1048 train started off two-and- half hours later after going through technical checks.

"Smoking is strictly forbidden on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed train, even in the toilet," said a spokesman with the Guangzhou Railway Group Corporation.

"It could trigger the alarm and even cause equipment failures."

However, the smoker was not caught because he had left several minutes before the alarm bell, the spokesman said.

 

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Another bullet train delayed due to system error

By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-31 15:12

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Large Medium Small A train on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed line, the G6009, was an hour late on Wednesday due to a fault in the automatic protection system, just one day after three trains on the same line were delayed by a smoking passenger, the News Express reported.
Technical workers were quickly sent to the scene, and other high-speed trains traveled on schedule that day.

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A day earlier, three trains on the line were delayed due to alarms apparently set off by a smoker on train G1048, which was scheduled to leave for Wuhan at 2:50 pm Tuesday.
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed trains installed an automatic protection system to ensure safety when emergency happens. Smoking on the high-speed train is one of the actions that can cause a train to stop.
Traditional trains allow smoking in toilets and in the covered spaces connecting train cars, but not in air-conditioned areas. Because high-speed trains are fully air-conditioned, smoking is banned on all bullet trains.
"I can't smoke on the train? Oh, it's just like when I was on a plane," an unnamed passenger said.
According to media reports, the slack season and high price - $109 for first-class seats and $68 for normal seats – are leading to fewer passengers on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed trains. The high-speed rail service between Wuhan and Guangzhou began on December 26, reducing travel time from 10 hours to three hours.
But in the first four days of operation, only 40 percent of seats were being sold, on average, according to media reports.

 

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Another bullet train delayed due to system error

By Zhao Chunzhe (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2009-12-31 15:12

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Large Medium Small A train on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed line, the G6009, was an hour late on Wednesday due to a fault in the automatic protection system, just one day after three trains on the same line were delayed by a smoking passenger, the News Express reported.
Technical workers were quickly sent to the scene, and other high-speed trains traveled on schedule that day.

Related readings:

Smoker delays bullet trains

Wuhan-Guangzhou bullet train link to hit airlines hard

Take a seat on the bullet train

'Bullet' arrived between life and death

A day earlier, three trains on the line were delayed due to alarms apparently set off by a smoker on train G1048, which was scheduled to leave for Wuhan at 2:50 pm Tuesday.
The Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed trains installed an automatic protection system to ensure safety when emergency happens. Smoking on the high-speed train is one of the actions that can cause a train to stop.
Traditional trains allow smoking in toilets and in the covered spaces connecting train cars, but not in air-conditioned areas. Because high-speed trains are fully air-conditioned, smoking is banned on all bullet trains.
"I can't smoke on the train? Oh, it's just like when I was on a plane," an unnamed passenger said.
According to media reports, the slack season and high price - $109 for first-class seats and $68 for normal seats – are leading to fewer passengers on the Wuhan-Guangzhou high-speed trains. The high-speed rail service between Wuhan and Guangzhou began on December 26, reducing travel time from 10 hours to three hours.
But in the first four days of operation, only 40 percent of seats were being sold, on average, according to media reports.8O

 

[TenPenny]

I remember one of the express trains we took, from Hangzhou to Nanchang...there was a woman who came by about every 10 minutes mopping the floor and cleaning...it was quite an experience.