I never thought that one day, buying a train ticket would be as easy as ordering takeout. You can place the order in advance and wait until the specified time to pay.
There is no need to set dozens of alarm clocks, there is no need to send a large number of "acceleration packets" against your will to ask for forwarding, and there is no need to wait in line all night in the cold winter.
Speaking of the "online reservation outside the pre-sale period" initiative implemented by the Guangzhou Bureau this year, in fact, it completely transformed the original logic of grabbing tickets by 180 degrees and achieved a fundamental reversal. In the past, people took the initiative to look for tickets, but now the situation has become that tickets are waiting for people to get them.
What impressed me most was the “small group” of 1 to 19 people
Did you notice that this number is particularly humane?
It happens to be the number of fellow villagers who go out to work together, the number of a work team, or the number of relatives in two or three households. Not too much, not too little, just enough to hold the small circle of people who hug each other for warmth.
Up to 3 orders can be submitted at the same time, and each order can choose 5 combinations of "train numbers plus seats".
What does it mean? It gives you the opportunity to try and make mistakes. Is there no ticket for this train? If I change to another train, are the hard seat tickets no longer available? Try a hard sleeper ticket, it will always save you the next way home.
To be honest, I understand all too well the anxiety I felt in the past.
The display screen was punctured, the page was stuck and frozen, and I watched the remaining tickets go from double digits to zero. I felt like there was nothing I could do...
For this year's appointment, you need to submit relevant requirements from the 20th day to the 17th day before driving, and you will be notified directly of the corresponding results on the 16th day.
No need to grab . It's that simple.
Oh yes, there is one more detail
For groups of more than 20 people, you can call directly to book tickets.
Yes, that's right, just make a phone call. In today's era, what else can't be solved through apps? However, they deliberately retained the manual customer service approach.
Some people will definitely say that this is "technologically backward". But if you think about it from another angle——
Not everyone who works on reinforcing steel bars at construction sites or screws on assembly lines can skillfully control smartphones. However, they can call.
The 12306 customer service center will use the dual method of "text message + phone call" to make notifications after the ticket allocation is successful.
Double notice. Afraid you can’t see it, afraid you’ll miss it.
And the "private carriages and trains" for more than 300 people
In the Pearl River Delta region, enterprises with an employment scale of not less than 300 people can go to Guangzhou station to handle on-site processing, Shenzhen station to handle on-site processing, Dongguan station to handle on-site processing, and even Huizhou station to handle on-site processing, or Zhuhai station to handle on-site processing.
Cover an entire carriage, or even an entire train.
A picture suddenly appeared in my mind. It was a whole train, and the people on it were all workers from the same factory. The voices floating in the carriage were all familiar local accents, and everyone was talking about various things about their hometown.
That sense of belonging, that sense of "we are in this together" may be warmer than the ticket itself.
Of course, it’s not without its faults.
After the redemption is successful, the payment must be made before 23:00 on the same day. If it exceeds this time, it will be automatically canceled. Such a rule is really a bit cruel.
What if I was too tired from working overtime that day and fell asleep? What if the phone happens to run out of battery?
But if you think about it, perhaps it is precisely this kind of "ruthlessness" that allows you to reserve your tickets for those who really need them. After all, there is so much transportation capacity. If you don’t pay, there will be countless people queuing up behind you.
In fact, in the final analysis, the Spring Festival travel ticket is never just a ticket.
It is a "migration" in the eyes of city people, but it is the "return" at the feet of strangers.
Starting from February 2, 2026, until March 13, this period is exactly 40 days. It is expected to send 539 million passengers.
539 million people, which is equivalent to the population of several countries, completed an epic movement in more than a month.
However, just this year, the railway department gave special treatment to this group of people - allowing them to book tickets first before many people rushing to grab tickets had time to react.
What is this called?
This is called precise service, and it’s also called comparing one’s heart to one’s heart.
Those who sweat and shed tears in a strange city deserve to be a little more relaxed when they embark on the road back home!
From the days of waiting in line all night long in the green pickup truck era, to the age of mobile phones where reservations can be made with the help of fingertips, to now, the previous cash-in advance has been realized.
Technology keeps changing, but the core thing actually remains the same——
It means that everyone who wants to go home can do so.
Even if you are just alone, even if you only need a ticket, even if you are not familiar with those complicated operations at all...
This year’s Guangzhou Bureau said: It’s okay, I’ll wait for you to place an order in advance.
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