CRH2C is entering Suzhou railway stationCRH stopping in Suzhou railway stationThe Shanghai–Nanjing Intercity Railway (left) and the conventionalBeijing–Shanghai Railway (right) lines run parallel to each other.
TheShanghai–Nanjing intercity railway orHuning intercity railway (simplified Chinese:沪宁城际铁路;traditional Chinese:滬寧城際鐵路;pinyin:Hù–Níng Chéngjì Tiělù) is a 301-kilometer (187 mi)-longhigh-speed rail line betweenShanghai andNanjing, the capital ofJiangsu province.Hù andNíng are shorthand Chinese names for Shanghai and Nanjing, respectively. The Huning intercity high-speed railway largely follows the route of the preexisting Nanjing-Shanghai section of the conventionalBeijing–Shanghai railway and theBeijing–Shanghai high-speed railway. Construction of this high-speed railway began in July 2008. The line went into test operations in early April 2010, and opened for full service on July 1, 2010.[3] The line has a design speed of 350 km/h (217 mph).[4] The journey time between the two cities has been shortened from 120 minutes to 73 minutes on nonstop trains.According to the arrangements of related departments, 120 pairs of trains are operating on the line, and the time interval between services is 5 minutes at the shortest.[5]
The railway links major cities in theYangtze River Delta, includingSuzhou,Wuxi,Changzhou, andZhenjiang, effectively making the southern Jiangsu city-belt operate like a single metropolitan region.
Due to the alignment of the rail line, some stations along it are shared with the conventionalBeijing–Shanghai Railway (Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhejiang, Nanjing), while three others are shared with the newBeijing–Shanghai high-speed railway (Shanghai Hongqiao, Kunshan South, Nanjing South). Due to comparatively frequent spacing of stations on the Shanghai–Nanjing high-speed railway, quite a few of them are situated at locations not served by either of the two other railways.
At Shanghai Hongqiao, some trains arriving from Nanjing continue to theShanghai–Hangzhou High-Speed Railway, providing a one-seat service along the entire Nanjing–Shanghai–Hangzhou line.
^See e.g. theschedules of trains leaving for Wuhan, Hankou, Wuchang, and Yichang. The sequence of stations they stop at on the Shanghai-Nanjing section, is usually only consistent with the Shanghai–Nanjing intercity high-speed railway, and not with theBeijing–Shanghai high-speed railway or the "old"Beijing–Shanghai Railway.
1 3 
1 
1 3 
3 6 (u/c)
Suzhou Tram Line T2
2 10 17 
CR S-train
Changzhou Metro
Shanghai Suburban Railway
