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Hard seat coach of train T27
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Hard seat coach of train T27

The Hard seat (Chinese: 硬座; pinyin: yìng zuò), short for YZ, is the lowest class of seating in China Railway. It is the basic fare, somewhat similar to the economy class on an airplane. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1360x1020, 444 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Qingzang railway Portal:Trains/Did you know/October 2006 Hard seat Metadata This file contains additional information, probably... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1360x1020, 444 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Qingzang railway Portal:Trains/Did you know/October 2006 Hard seat Metadata This file contains additional information, probably... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme...


Hard seat derives its name from the hard, wooden seats in the Mao era on regular passenger trains. Since the 1990's, "hard seat" on modern trains is not in fact, hard. Many hard seats are quite comfortable, but with respect to soft seat, hard seat carriages are usually more crowded (2+3 vs. 2+2), and people without seats may stand in hard seat carriages.


Coaches

The coaches current in use include:

  • YZ-21 (no air conditioner)
  • YZ-22 (no air conditioner)
  • YZ-22B (no air conditioner)
  • YZ-25B (no air conditioner)
  • YZ-25G
  • YZ-25K
  • YZ-30
  • YZ-32
  • SYZ-25B (double-decked)
  • Others...

Price

As of 2006, the following ticket price used in most regular lines, but some special lines different price.

Distance (km) 普通硬座
Regular
新型空调硬座
New type air-conditioned
普快
(pǔ kuài, lit. Normal fast)
快速
(kuài sù, lit. Fast)
普快
(pǔ kuài, lit. Normal fast)
快速
(kuài sù, lit. Fast)
1–20 2.50 3.50 7.00 9.00
21–30 3.50 4.50 8.00 10.00
31–40 3.50 4.50 8.00 10.00
41–50 4.50 5.50 10.00 12.00
51–60 4.50 5.50 10.00 12.00
61–70 5.50 7.00 11.00 13.00
71–80 5.50 7.00 11.00 13.00
81–90 7.00 8.00 13.00 15.00
91–100 8.00 9.00 14.00 16.00
101–110 8.00 9.00 15.00 17.00
111–120 9.00 10.00 17.00 19.00
121–130 10.00 11.00 18.00 20.00
131–140 11.00 13.00 19.00 22.00
141–150 12.00 14.00 21.00 24.00
151–160 12.00 14.00 21.00 24.00
161–170 13.00 15.00 22.00 25.00
171–180 14.00 16.00 26.00 29.00
181–190 14.00 16.00 26.00 29.00
191–200 15.00 17.00 27.00 30.00
201–220 17.00 19.00 30.00 33.00
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