Railway departments around the country have taken many measures to deal with the peak of return journey, and carefully deployed and served passengers.
CCTV News:Today (October 5th) is the 7th day of Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday.Multi-station ushered in the peak of return passenger flow. The national railway is expected to send 17.95 million passengers today, and 12,351 passenger trains are planned, including 1,729 additional trains. China State Railway Group Co.,Ltd. has increased its transportation capacity in Beijing-Shanghai, Chengdu-Xi ‘an, Nanning-Guangzhou, Shenyang-Beijing, Hong Kong-Shenzhen and other popular directions.
The peak of return trip in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province shows that more trains are added to ensure passengers’ smooth travel.

At the entrance of Taiyuan South Station, the passenger peak of Taiyuan South Station is from 9: 00 am to 11: 00 am and from 2: 00 pm to 4: 00 pm every day. During the peak period, a total of 15 security checkpoints at the east and west entrances of Taiyuan South Station are all enabled. According to the latest data of Taiyuan Railway Department, Taiyuan Railway Station and Taiyuan South Railway Station are expected to send 155,000 passengers and arrive at 130,000 passengers today. Most of the passengers sent and arrived today are long-distance trans-provinces. Due to the highly overlapping of family visits, student flows and tourist flows, the current peak of return trip has initially appeared. In order to allow more passengers to travel smoothly, Taiyuan Railway has also added 32 high-speed EMUs and 11 ordinary-speed trains from Taiyuan to Beijing, Tianjin and Xi ‘an, and increased the number of EMUs reconnected by 28.
In particular, it is necessary to remind the outbound passengers that when taking the train reconnected by the EMU, they must be optimistic about their car position, because the EMU reconnection adopts the "8+8" grouping mode, and the front and back of the two trains with eight cars are not connected with each other. If you get on the wrong car, please prepare your luggage in advance and move to the adjacent car at the connection. When the train arrives at the midway stop, you can quickly move to the designated car.
Harbin Station in Heilongjiang Province is carefully deployed to serve passengers’ travel.

Today, it is estimated that there will be more than 80,000 passengers in Harbin Station. The main direction of travel is through Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other directions, and the direction of Jilin, which is close to the province, has been sold out.
In order to cope with the peak passenger flow, Harbin Railway Station has taken some new measures. In terms of security inspection, the security inspection channels in the north and south directions are kept normal and open 5-mdash; 7 channels, all 9 channels are open during the festival. At the same time, the "three-zone operation method" of pre-inspection area, waiting inspection area and security inspection area was adopted to avoid the backlog of passengers by zoning buffer. The second is ticket checking. Under the condition that the gap between adjacent ticket gates is sufficient, large passenger trains have implemented split-screen synchronous ticket checking to effectively ensure the speed of passengers entering the station.
Today, the Harbin Bureau of China Railway is expected to send nearly 400,000 passengers throughout the day, and the Beijing-Harbin high-speed railway will continue to open night EMUs, striving to meet the requirement of running at least one train from Harbin to Beijing every hour from 3 am to 23 pm. In view of the characteristics that all cities in the province will take Harbin as the hub for transit, the railway department has opened 44 short-distance EMUs in the province on the peak line to fully meet the short-distance and transfer needs of passengers.
Shanghai added more trains and subways, delayed many measures to deal with the return peak.

From 10: 00 this morning, shanghai hongqiao railway station began to usher in the peak of return passenger flow, with an average of every 5— A train leaves or arrives in six minutes.
According to the latest data provided by the railway department, today, the number of passengers arriving at the Shanghai Railway Station is expected to reach 610,000. To this end, the railway department has increased the capacity of key time periods and popular directions, and added 399 passenger trains from Shanghai to Xi’ an, Wuhan, Changsha and other directions, as well as popular tourist cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. At the same time, the EMU trains were reconnected, and the number of carriages of 249 EMU trains was increased from 8 to 16, and 140 ordinary trains were added to meet the travel needs of different passengers.

In order to cope with the large passenger flow of the railway, shanghai metro line 2, Line 10 and Line 17 have further added fixed-point overtime trains on the basis of the established delay and opening plan. On the night of October 5-6, the latest departure time of the designated overtime trains at Hongqiao Railway Station was extended, from Line 2 to 2: 00 the next day, Line 10 to 0: 30 the next day, and Line 17 to 0: 00 the next day.
According to the latest data, the return peak will last until the night of the 6th, when there will be some traffic congestion in Shanghai, reminding passengers to arrange their trips in advance.