-Student ticket pre-sale time: from December 5, 2014 to December 20, the railway department will centrally accept round-trip tickets from January 15, 2015 to March 15 on the Internet. From December 21 onwards, students can buy student tickets before March 15, 2015 through the Internet, telephone, window, vending machines and other channels.
-Note: The Railway Department expressly requests that all train ticket outlets be prohibited from handling fees when selling students ' round-trip tickets.
Ways to buy Tickets
Added benefits: High speed rail move to
-From January 1, 2015 to March 15, the railway department will be in Beijing to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, between Shanghai to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, an additional 8 pairs of high-speed rail moving on the eve of the train. Tickets are available from December 20, 2014, and the pre-sale period is tentatively 30 days.
-The high-speed rail is a direct train station, the starting time for the night about 20:00, the end to the time between 7:00 to 7:30, 6 days a week, 1 days to stop shipping.
-Three types of fares are introduced: Weekday fares from Monday to Thursday, Saturday, weekend fares in Friday and Sunday, holiday fares during holidays and peak passenger traffic. For those who purchase the tickets in advance, they are given different fare concessions according to the 30 days to 11 days, 10 days to 4 days and 3 days. The high-speed rail has four private rooms and two private rooms for free dinner for the passengers.
12306 website Booking Strategy
12306 site booking is very slow card, you can use the following methods to visit 12306 of overseas nodes, to avoid the Chinese mainland's peak visit.
-Use an overseas VPN or SSH, so that in 12306 it appears you are visiting from abroad.
-Modify host to add a record in c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts: "122.228.243.22 dynamic.12306.cn", or "61.183.42.94 Dynamic.12306.cn "
-Use the Baidu Guardian to rob the ticket treasure or the Golden Hill Cheetah
Browser . Their built-in plug-ins can help to log in and swipe tickets, and once they get out of the ticket, they will play the window tips.
However, repeated brush tickets will add to the burden of the site, the proposal to buy immediately after the switch off, buy not to try for a period of time, do not continue in vain brush.
12306 Mobile phone Purchase ticket client
-From December 12, 2014 onwards, "railway 12306" will be launched in 2.0 version. Original version 1.2 can be used until December 20. Please update the version as soon as possible.
-Can be directly in the railway 12306 official website (www.12306.cn) by scanning two-dimensional code to download the new version of the client.
-In the 12306 "passenger service" channel on the top right click on the "mobile version" into the Mobile phone client download page download.
-iphone users can also download "Railway 12306" from the App Store in Apple.
Phone booking Raiders
National Unified Booking Telephone is 95105105, Canton Railway Group 96020088, Chengdu Railway Bureau 96006, Xi ' an railway bureau 96688, but at the peak is difficult to dial, you can try:
-Dial the surrounding area code for example, if you are in Shanghai, you may not be able to call, you can try to dial the surrounding area of the code, Hangzhou (0571-95105105), Ningbo (0574-95105105).
-some railway companies will restrict the place where the mobile phone belongs, such as your mobile phone is Beijing to call Tianjin Reservation telephone (022-95105105) will be prompted empty number, then you can use the home for Tianjin's number to call. Or buy a Skype account call, which will be the system by default to dial from abroad, ignore the place of attribution.
-Enter the ID number when the ticket has been successful, do not worry, be sure to enter the correct. If you enter the error option 3 consecutive times, the main menu is returned.
-When you book a sleeper, 1 default berth, 2 default up and down, 3 default on the bottom (if there is no corresponding bunk, then only the remaining).
-Every phone call, can be booked 5 seats, 3 sleeper, straight through (note not direct) train a ticket, that is, how many tickets to enter the number of ID card.
-What is a direct train? That is, "cross-office Train", that is, running more than the Beijing Railway Bureau train. If the train is a pure number, then <4000 is a direct train; if there are letters on the train, then the numbers behind the letters <7000 belong to the direct train.
Telephone booking varies from place to place
-Open telephone booking and have pre-sale advantages: Beijing, Taiyuan, Chengdu, Zhengzhou, Xi ' An, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Lanzhou;
-Open telephone booking and no pre-sale advantages: Nanchang, Shenyang;
-Open telephone booking, and the sale of points station and distance tickets chaos: Shanghai;
-Not open telephone booking: Qinghai-Tibet, Urumqi, Kunming, Nanning, Hohhot, Harbin, Jinan;
-Have pre-sale advantage of the railway Bureau, must telephone booking or online booking, window queuing is futile.
Can I book a long-distance ticket by telephone?
-which station to set the ticket, the station belongs to the Railway Bureau of the booking phone (front plus area code).
Attention is the departure, that is, the station you want to get on the bus, not the starting and the train also has nothing to do. For example, D2 Shenyang north to Beijing, the fight (024-95105105).
-part of the area code can not be foreign calls (for example, in Beijing, 022-95105105 is the number of Tianjin is empty)
-part of the Railway Bureau different area code can be booked different stations (such as Canton Railway, Guangdong, Hunan two parts, their own independence, can not booking each other)
-distance ticket to take tickets: telephone booking to achieve national access, with the original ID card and order number, in the country's railway stations and sales outlets are acceptable votes, no longer subject to the Railway Bureau restrictions.
-It is invalid to dial in in advance to "wait in line", and it must be time to play the ticket.
Find out which railway bureau you belong to?
The nervous train can buy the other station to receive the ticket first!
-Along the Jingguang line south of the train (such as Changsha, Canton direction) can first buy Baoding, Shijiazhuang, go too in the silver wire of the train (such as T69 Urumqi direction) can choose Shijiazhuang North, Yangquan north, Beijing-Shanghai train (such as Qingdao, Yantai direction) can choose Yangliuqing; take the northeast direction can choose Tianjin, Shanhaiguan.
-There is no change in the ticket, and the seats are guaranteed to be continuous. For example, you can get the same train. Beijing to Shijiazhuang, Shijiazhuang to Liuzhou the same seat other sleeper.
-After several days to fight with the 12306 experience shows that as long as the patient, do not abandon do not give up, brush in, queue up, the system advised you to give up when you do not give up, there is hope. Even if the ticket is shown to fail, it can be bought in the unfinished order. If the show ticket is not enough, get up in the morning and continue to buy tickets, the day before yesterday shows that the selling tickets may be renewed.
Change of sign and refund
-About the change of sign-
Change sign/Refund rule
-48 hours before driving (excluding), can be changed to sign the pre-sale period of other trains.
-Within 48 hours before driving, can be changed to sign the other train before driving, can also be changed to sign the car to the date of the day of the other train between 24:00, do not deal with the day after the face date and later the change of the sign.
-After the car, passengers can still change the day to sign other trains, but only in the face of the station to change the sign.
-About refund-
-15 days before the car (excluding) refund, do not charge a refund fee.
-After the change of the ticket travel date during the Spring Festival (2015 to March 15 during the Spring Festival), the refund shall be 24 hours before the driving time standard approved refund fee.
-The change of the scope of high-speed railway is limited to the EMU train only.